I arrived in Philadelphia Monday evening to the home of my lovely Couchsurfing hostess…Claire. She was still at work, so I had detailed instructions on where to find the keys to her beautiful City apartment that is located near Rittenhouse Square. All of the lights were on when I arrived to welcome me.
This is her living room. I love window seats! She is a voracious reader and just outside of this photo on the left is another built-in bookcase with books!
The Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park in Cincinnati, Ohio has some cool art! The walking path within the Park parallels the Ohio River and is approximately 1/2 mile in length. The Park represents world unity and global understanding and I love it!
This beautiful young lady was sitting by some art work in Mount Adams during the Art Walk and I asked her if I could take her photo.
Mount Adams is a residential neighborhood in Cincinnati that’s filled with beautiful architecture, trendy bars, restaurants, and art! I was a “Tourist in my City” on Saturday and visited the area for an Art Walk. Rather than viewing the art, I found myself more interested in walking around taking photographs of the beautiful architecture! As you can see, it was a beautiful Spring day and I totally enjoyed soaking up the sun and fresh air. Originally Mount Adams was known as Mount Ida, named for a woman who used to live there. If you’re interested in history, you can read about why they changed the name here.
Nicholas Longworth, an original landowner, transformed the hillside into a wine vineyard, and is known as the first commercially successful winemaker in the United States. No wonder I like wine so much! Unfortunately, due to grape diseases, a few decades later…the vineyards were virtually wiped out.
The Northern Kentucky Wine Trail is a great way to spend an afternoon! My friends, their parents and I packed a picnic lunch and visited two of the five wineries on the trail yesterday. We’ve been to Camp Springs Winery, so we decided to try a couple of the others. Our first stop was the Seven Wells Winery in California, Kentucky.
Of course, I had to scope out any cool photo ops and found this one…
It was chilly last Wednesday when I arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo to take photos of their massive flower display. I found a $2 discount at Krogers to use on the $15 admission price and avoided the $8 parking cost by parking less than a block away on the street. Once inside, I began walking around, taking some photos of some of the animals and searching for the flowers. I saw that bulbs had been planted, but no blooms. I asked an employee and he said they haven’t bloomed yet. I only stayed a couple of hours and didn’t even go into any of the buildings to see animals because my camera would fog up when I did. It’s not that I don’t love animals and taking pictures of them, I guess I feel sorry for them being held captive. But I understand how much knowledge and enjoyment humans receive in doing so.
The Polar Bears were the most playful and active of the bunch…
It’s been over a week since I spent the day in Downtown Cincinnati for the Reds Baseball Opening Day celebration, but I have a few more photos I’d like to share with you. I’m always on the lookout for creative and/or artistic photographic opportunities and I think this staircase fits that description.
I’ll call it “Curved Elegance”…
Cincinnati, Ohio has something for everyone! Monday was Opening Day for the Reds Baseball and what a party. My girlfriends and I watched the Findlay Market Parade and then joined the party at The Banks (an area with restaurants and bars on the Ohio River in Downtown, Cincinnati). This is the beautiful fountain at Fountain Square raining blue sky…
Have you ever gone to an all day party? That’s what the Reds Baseball Opening Day festivities is and more! It started with the Findlay Market Parade that I shared with you yesterday and then my friends and I made our way by foot to The Banks, which is, according to their website, “An 18-acre development on the Ohio River between Great American Ball Park and Paul Brown Stadium. This vibrant project is transforming downtown Cincinnati by creating a place for everyone to experience and enjoy.” There are cool bars and restaurants and outdoor urban gardens, etc. Some of Monday was a blur, because we were going from place to place pretty quickly, so I don’t know the name of everywhere we went. For example, this place below.
But, I loved the girl, her style and the lips on the wall. Looks like they still need to paint the wooden structure…
I’ve never attended the Findlay Market Parade or festivities for the Reds Baseball Opening Day in Cincinnati…up until Monday! It was tons of fun! The parade winds around Downtown. We were at Fountain Square, where there were booths, music, food and drink! I went with a few girlfriends and wanted to share some of our fun with you. It wasn’t rainy…this photo is of a cool water feature in the Banks area of Downtown Cincinnati.
Saturday I went on a three-mile hike with my hiking club through Meetup.com in Dayton, Kentucky, which is located along the Ohio River, across from Cincinnati. It has finally started to warm up some and the sun was shining! We split into a faster group and a slower group. I’m always in the fast group, but wanted time to take photos…so I joined the slower group. In this photo you can see the faster group up ahead…
Join me for the last of our tour in Over the Rhine, located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
I meet people in the oddest places! This beautiful lady was in line to use the restroom at one of the bars I stopped in. She really liked the photo when I showed it to her and said she rarely has good ones taken. She was going to Facebook friend me to use the photo…but I haven’t heard from her yet. The first photo I took of her she was looking directly at the camera, so I asked her to turn her head slightly….voila!
There’s a bar in Over The Rhine (an area of town in Cincinnati Ohio) called Japps Since 1879 and I had been wanting to check it out, so I stopped in. It used to be a hair store. This is the head mixologist–Molly. I love her tattoos and style! And the bar is fabulous! It’s housed in a restored historical building with live music, yummy craft cocktails and a unique atmosphere!
Over the Rhine is amazing! Talk about an area of Cincinnati that has been revitalized! Just in the past year or two…so much progress has been made in turning this area into a fun, safe, historic and beautiful section of Cincinnati to visit. My girlfriend Gina and I arrived early Friday evening to walk around and enjoy the sunshine, along with warmer (50’s) temperatures. The architecture is beyond cool!
My Easter Day today was great! My son and his beautiful girlfriend (pictured below) spent the night and after a leisurely morning with coffee and internet time, I prepared some mushroom omelets and toast for breakfast. He’s really tall–like 6’9″–so he makes her look shorter than she is. We attended a new church today that’s very near our house and it was quite interesting. To give you some background. Although my family didn’t attend church, I attended church with a girlfriend when I was 12. And through the years have gone to a variety of churches…all different denominations…Presbyterian, Baptist, Church of God, Methodist, Catholic, Jewish, etc. I have my own personal beliefs, as everyone does. Anyway, the preacher at this particular church was quite loud and full of spirit. He was so loud on the microphone that I had to plug my ears with my fingers throughout much of the sermon (but I could still hear him). He would start off at a somewhat normal pitch and within a few sentences of each point would be almost screaming. He said that he knows that hell is real because on YouTube he saw a video showing a team of scientists drilling into the core of the earth and their drill bit began to wobble after they were deep into the ground. There are only two reasons a drill bit wobbles…either it is bent or you’ve reached an area without any matter…such as a cavern. They placed a microphone down into the hole and heard human voices screaming. Don’t get me wrong…I’m not poking fun at religion…merely repeating what I heard this morning. Enough about that.
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