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Back Deck

We've been busy getting some new flowers and plants. there are more than this but this is most of the new stuff.

Oranges and Lemons Rose This Year

Last year I put in a rose bush called Oranges and Lemons (click here to see last year's post). This year it is doing fine!

Birthday Project

I worked on this brick project for quite a while today. In the future when I look at it I can say, "I did that on my birthday in 2010!"

More Flowers for Jane

The nice folks at Advanced Drainage Systems - where Heather works - sent these beautiful flowers!
Thank you very much!

Flowers for Jane

Since her Mother's Day flowers were at home while she was in the hospital getting a new kidney (The transplant unit doesn't allow real flowers) - I got her some new ones today.

In the Garden

Mother's Day Flowers

from Heather and Megan

Clematis Today

Just last Friday there was one blossom - look at it today!

At the New Ohio Union -

The whole video screen does not fit the blog. If you wish to see it better go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDNOB6TnHSI

Ledge Lane on iPad!

John Farnsworth sent this image of his iPad with "News from Ledge Lane" on the screen. Neat! Thanks, John!

First Clematis of the Year

There will be others

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

In the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse today the Ohio Telecom Association and the Ohio State University's John Glenn School of Public Affairs presented "In Conversation with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein." The lady in the white jacket is Annie Glenn, to her left is John Glenn.

Friends!

Stream is Moving

There was rain last night and this morning. More water is moving in the stream than there has been lately, but it is still not as high or as fast as it has been at times in the past.

A Love Story!

Garbage Truck

Sunrise

Click here for another version!

Blooms

Lunaria -
Dark red double tulips -

Quanson Cherry

Crab Apple ready to bloom!

Ravine on a Spring Evening

Here's the ravine on a Spring Evening - to get the full effect click on the picture.

Ravine, Greener Today

There was a lot of rain last night but the stream didn't grow a lot because the ground was pretty dry and soaked up much of the rain.

Back Panorama

(To see the panorama click on the above image or right here.)

Easter Visitor

First one we've seen this spring!

Daffy Drops!

I took this one this morning - thought I'd share it.

A Special Rusty Mailbox!

As you might know I have been collecting pictures of rusty mailboxes and even have a blog devoted to them (see the link on the left). Well, we decided that our regular common black run of the mill mailbox had to go so we replaced it with this one - I took this picture just before I got today's mail -

Now that you've seen it - click here and here!

Stream View

March 26 - Snow!

We woke up to 26 degrees F and almost two inches of snow! It won't last long as temperatures will be going up. To see more ravine views go here. I'll make a link on the left for later use. I plan on adding a ravine view to the set every day.

Later in the day:

The snow had almost all melted but cold temperatures still persisted Friday night and Saturday morning.

Replacement

Yesterday we replaced a Baby Blue Spruce. One we put in last year didn't thrive (well, it died!), so we were able to exchange it for a new one. We hope it makes it.

First Spring Flowers

Above is an edited version of the middle picture below. I love how the water droplets are balancing on the petals!

We have just one little bunch of blossoms. Soon the daffodils will pop, though.

Spring Begins!

I go by this rivulet nearly every day and for years I've been meaning to take pictures of it. This morning I finally did. I am going to try to photograph it every now and then in the different seasons.

A Green Post Box for Saint Patrick's Day!

In 2004 in Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland, I saw this postbox. I noticed that it had started out as a Great Britain mail box - note the E R VII! Edward the seventh followed Queen Victoria in 1901 and reigned until 1910. In the U.K. post boxes are red, in Ireland they are green.

I asked the people in the post office about the box, wondering how there happened to be a U.K. mailbox in the Republic of Ireland. They said that that was the one they were sent when the requested a new box just a couple of years before. It seems the postal authorities recycle - green, indeed!

Spencer is Ready for St. Patrick's Day!

He went to the groomer today.

Something new - sorta

Until I saw it on another blog I didn't realize that you can embed Google Streetview in a blog. Here's Ledge Lane - you may scan around and zoom. I would guess rthis was taken back in the autumn of '08. You may notice that they blurred out the front porch - I think the program they were using to detect people thought the pumpkin was a person!

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Scarlet - In Memoriam

Fish

I made this fish many years ago. The materials are copper and brass on wood bound with leather.
It was exposed to the elements for a long time but it's been inside on the garage wall for almost seven years.

Shaker Boxes

New Posts at Rusty Mailbox

There are some new submissions at Rusty Mailbox!
Check them out by clicking here.

A Friend's video -