Red & Green

The theme this week by me which is "Red & Green". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that.

I thought these Christmas colors should give us a lot of opportunities this week. I chose this display my daughters has of Santa Clauses to do the header. Here is a Santa in red & green outfits.

 

This is a Santa dressed in red & green.

This is another daughter's house with a red and green wreath.

A red & green wreath at the mall.

The top of Santa's house at the mall in red & green.

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"ALMOST"

The theme this week by Kathy which is "ALmost". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that.

I'm a little late in posting. As you get older sometimes you almost know what day it was. Almost 50 years ago the wife and I got married. We waited until my birthday to celebrate. It was a fun time. The daughters had a fun time doing all the planning.

My daughter made the cake.

The years have treated us well.

This is the family.

The grand children are getting older.

The grand children had a good time.

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HOLIDAY IMAGES IN THE SQUARE.

The theme this week by Lew which is "Holiday Images in the Square". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that.


I had a hard time with this one. There are not many town sqaures in the area. Tallmadge Ohio  has a town circle (which they call the town square) with a old town hall (1855) and old church (1825). Here is a look as I drove in on one of the eight roads that radiate from the circle. The Chistmas Tree with the star is focal in this shot. 

The old town hall sits on the South leg with the church behind.

The Old Town Hall is a great building with the Christmas decorations.

I liked this view of the church with the decortions on the pole lights.

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"Straight and Curved Lines with-in a Church or House"

The theme this week by Mac which is "Straight and Curved Lines with-in a Church or House". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that. 

I decided to use my trip across the Alps with the Shaker Heights Band to show this theme. I visited two parts of The Cathedral of the Assumption while in Brixen, Italy. The older part from the 10th century. The newer cathedral  is where I got my header. This fresco is just one of many on the ceiling. I loved the straight and curved lines on this part of the church.

The double clock towers are just beautiful.

This is a view toward the alter.

Check out these straight and curved lines.

This is the 10th century church on the left.

There are many straight and curved lines in the church.

This fresco has really interesting lines. You can really see the age in this church.

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"Back to the Future"

The theme this week by Craver which is "Back to the Future". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that.

My friend Craver came up with a neat subject. I thought about it and of course thought of the movie of the same name. No DeLoreans available so what to show? I decided to show a log cabin that was brought "Back to the Future" from 1808. 

The log cabin was built in 1808 in New Lisbon, Ohio. It was founded as a German newspaper. It was the first newspapers west of Pittsburgh, PA. In 1809 it was changed to English and called The Ohio Patriot.

The log cabin has been updated with a ramp for handicap entry. It also has an updated roof with shingles, air conditioner, modern windows and electric lights. It has been brought "Back to the Future".

It is located on Route 43 in Kent and is in the Davey Arboretum across from the Davey Tree headquarters.

This is a bench that has that has the look of 1808.

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"OVER THE RIVER"

The theme this week by Kathy which is "Over the River". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that. As you can see there have been some changes and the group has changed.


I was thinking of showing the Cuyahoga River but instead chose the Niagra River at Niagra Falls. I wanted to show a view Over the River which showed the Canadian Falls. This is what I chose for my header.

This is looking over the river at the American Falls. The rainbow was neat.

The Maid of the Mist with a lot of mist from the falls over the river.

This was a view from the bridge looking over the river to the two falls.

A little closer view over the river.

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"ORANGE"

The theme this week by me which is "Orange". Mac, Kathy, Sandy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that. As you can see there have been some changes and the group has changed.

 What to show? Where do you find ORANGE. Why it's Fall and it is everywhere.  I decided to use an Orange sunrise I saw in Canada this earlier this year. I thought it was beautiful.

The Fall scene is everywhere and it is Orange.

This is an Orange clock at Ray's.

My wife likes to decorate with Orange.

She is quite good at decorating and she made this door wreath in Orange.

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"SHOP WINDOW"

The theme this week by Mac  is "Shop Window".  Mac, Chris,Kathy, Rich  and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that.

I told Mac we were at a disadvantage in the states. England has some great little shops. My only chance was Acorn Alley in Kent. This is a new downtown developement that has a lot of little shops. I went down this morning and took some photos.

This is across the street which is Empire Gifts. It has a neat shop window.

McKay Bricker has a neat shop window with Christmas ornements displayed.

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Connected is Kent State Gallery which has an art display in the shop window.

The Works has a lot of gifts at the front of Acorn Alley.

This is the shop window in Acorn Alley of Home Markets. Too bad the "O" in the OPEN sign was burnt out.

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"CHAOS"

The theme this week by Kathy  is "Chaos".  Mac, Chris,Kathy, Rich  and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that.

Chris sure picked a tough one this week. Hurricane Sandy  coming up the coast has caused Chaos in Ohio. We have had rain for five days so all the photo opts were dark and dreary. My header is my granddaughter coming for a visit. 

 We had Halloween on Saturday and the conditions were bad. People still came out and there was no parking.  So I did some drive by photos.

Here is a of photo of some revelers running across the street. 

Even the moose at Rays Place got a little chaos.

The only chaos we had was on the deck. Not really much damage from the rain and high winds.

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"LOST"

The theme this week by Kathy  is "LOST".  Mac, Chris,Kathy, Rich  and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that. 

I had thought to be lost and the woods to be my theme but then I thought of the fact that the trees had lost their color and leaves. Where did they go? Well some are on the water and I decided to use this one as my header. They were certainly LOST. They were lost from the trees and had lost their way and color.

The beauty of the shoreline is lost from just last week.

The leaves are afloat and i captured them as they passed by.

Sometimes they traveled together.

Sometimes they carried some of their color.

But they were certainly lost and travelling aimlessly on the lake.

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