With Autumn coming to a close and all the vivid colors fading fast, I set out to capture the last bit of color this season as I also try my sights on thinking outside the box. I visited a local Metro Park, Inniswood Garden to see what I could do to challenge myself … not just the fading color but the camera…
I attended my very first I Heart Faces conference just recently and I was totally inspired! I was inspired to be better, to believe in my abilities, to change my perspective, to give back and not just in the area of Photography. Being that I can even say Dallas and Southfork Ranch and I Heart Faces in…
When living in the mid-west, Autumn usually means a yearly trek to a local pumpkin patch. This year we decided to try a new place; one not so overly crowded yet affordable and still fairly close to home with enough activities for the kids. We landed on The Orchard and Company in Plain City, Ohio. It…
Following our outing to the HoneyFest, my Aunt Betty, my son and I had driven past a local Pickaway County vineyard and decided to stop. It was a small vineyard but looked picturesque and had open hours for wine tasting. I had never been to the Slate Run Vineyard before, but my Aunt had been and purchased wine in the…
Our original plan of apple picking this weekend was canceled due to all the overnight rain. So, looking for something to do in its place, we found the Lithopolis Honeyfest. Just a short southeast drive from Columbus, we were there in a jiffy. Not sure what to expect at the honeyfest, we found ourselves first at the wine tasting…
This weekend marks the end of another summer and (hopefully) gone are the days of sweating while walking the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in central Ohio (as least until next summer anyhow). The weatherman predicted our weekend would be a total wash out as Hurricane Isaac made his way to Ohio, but as it turns out, there was a lot of cloud cover but…
It’s that time of year again, when Summer meets Autumn, apple picking season returns, smores become a major food group, OSU Buckeye football is on {and yes I bleed scarlet and gray}, the swimming pool is gearing down for closing and the kids are back in school. Many have asked me if I was ready for school to…
This week is all about Camp Grandma. It is the week between the last day of true summer camp and the first day of school. And being that I still need to work this entire week, the distress call to my parents was placed. S.O.S And they came through on request. According to my kiddo,…
I remember being young and knew it was summer when the corn was knee-high by the 4th of July. I did not grow up in the country (my cousins did) so our July 4th was always spent in the county (we were known as the city slickers). But I didn’t care. I loved (and still do) the country smell…
I do not consider myself a runner… by any stretch of the imagination. And by default only, I am a walker that clocks around 10,000 step a day (that’s about 3.5 miles). So, when a friend suggested we register for The 5K Color Run in our town… I did just that! (and I signed my kiddo up…