Standoff ... sort of ....

Wee Pervie and the squirrel, separated by the silicon wall.

Hey! Lets go shootin!

A bad day at the range is better than a good day ... oops ... nah, that ain't gonna work.  Well, it's fun to go shooting at Ferg's.  Kate and Ferg.

RIP September 19, 2014

( some date before)1999 - 2014 

This was our house-cat named girly

We're so sad cause she passed away early

She was such a great friend

Too soon came the end

Our girly will be missed so surely

 

taken 9/18/2014

Louisville, Kentucky

skyline as seen from Falls of the Ohio State Park, Indiana

Little Pussy

In case you were wondering, the little pussy cat's back to health and doing fine!

Teen girl sits by ...

Aurora's International Airport. The grassy boxed-in area, I think. Maybe for drones. Then again, maybe not.

Rising Sun, Indiana

A waterless Tree Fountain at the pavilion.

Madison, Indiana

Awesome power boats sometimes race here but, on this day, it's a placid afternoon. Here, we're looking upstream towards the bridge over trouble-free water. Methinks the bridge heads over thataway ... meanders toward the Kentucky Speedway. yakyakyak ...

Indiana Tobacco

Well, it's time to put up tobacco in southern Indiana!

Teen Girl Top

Happy Face

Teen Girl Bottom

Happy Feet

So they dumped her out ...

Me? I'd say, for anyone who dumps an animal out, appropriate punishment would be dumping them out ... while driving ... hmmm ... maybe 60 mph or so? And I'm a *** cough *** liberal. So here's what someone dumped out on our street. She's probably about 6 months old.

Over Mt. Orab, Ohio

An Atomicus Cumulus as photographed with my back to the soccer fields at Anderson Township's Riverside Park near Newtown, Ohio. A ssmartyphone check with WLW's weather radar showed this mushroom to be over Mt. Orab Ohio, several counties away.

AEP Mariner

This evening, we have the AEP Mariner pushing what appeared to be a full load of gravel up the Ohio River. SOny F-707

"USS Nightmare" docked in the background

St. Rose Church, Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio

A few snaps from this evening's visit on the northern shore of the Ohio River, a bit upstream from Cincinnati, Ohio as seen from the parking lot of historic St. Rose Catholic Church.

Three coming, two going.

Towboat, Ohio River, near Cincinnati, Ohio

Pleasure boat

Expensive boat

Sailboat - not too often seen on the river.

A B&B river boat

Chuckie is keeping an eye on me.

He has a couple of cats on his stringer and is going for more.

Remembering ...

Photographs are useful for bringing back memories ... such as the run-on winter we had in 2014. But this winter wasn't as downright godawful nasty as bad as back in 77 - when my fuel oil gelled in the middle of the night because it was about -20 f and the furnace died from fuel starvation. As I recall, the temperature remained * below zero * throughout January. There was also about 20 inches of snow on the ground. Ice on the streets and sidewalks was hard as granite here in the Cincinnati area. Yes, it was worse that year. The Ohio River froze solid and things like fuel oil couldn't make the barge trips up/down the river. I seem to recall that the U.S. Army CofE had to dynamite huge ice jams at Markland Dam. Without going on and on about that, lets leave it as ... this winter was annoying but that winter was seriously dangerous in many respects. The river, in January 2014 nearly froze all the way across. Well, lets just say, I'm glad we have the Winter of 2014 behind us.

Photo: in Newport, Kentucky looking towards downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Android Phone.

Dad's Trusty Barlow

Framed on tripod, here I'm using my dad's aged, hand-me-down Barlow knife. I'm cutting belt slots in a sheath that I was making for my aging Estwing hatchet.

Riverboat. Fernback Park, near Sayler Park, Ohio.

Cabana On The River

Well, this is not an ad. But when I enjoy a place, I often blog about it - as in the case of Cabana On The River, next to Fernback Park on the Ohio River. Over on Cincinnati's west side, it's tween Sayler Park and Addyston. On a splendid Wednesday afternoon and, due to some misjudgements, we arrived somewhat after most everyone was off work or going home from work. We found a full house, usually a good testimonial for an eatery. So, we had to wait a bit longer to have a table on the river but it was certainly worth the wait. A beautiful sky, an unusually cool wind, and a beautiful view of the river provided an excellent atmosphere. The meal and service was very good and we'll certainly return again. Some pix:

Berry, Kentucky June 2014

OK ... I've been lazy. Well, here's a couple of Android Phone images. The first is the South Fork of the Licking River, looking downstream from the bridge over the same in Berry, Kentucky. On the right side, there were 4 people fishing and, in the distance, a man, completely out in the water on a John Deere tractor doing something or other. Probably not noodling - using a tractor's a bit of overkill. Well, till the rain moved in later, this was a great afternoon for doing whatever he was up to.

Next is an urban scene found next to the bridge on the downstream side of the road.

Gone ...

Gone, but not forgotton ... Sister Joan

My, my! Aint She Something?

Melissa Claire Kuykendall. 

Quiz Time!

Lookin down my street, February 20th, here in the frozen suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Quite possibly the so-called spring thaw has set in. That said, it's quiz time ... on which side of the street, in this photo, are the south-facing yards? If'n ya git this wrong-o, shame shame on you! Now, if you buy a house and dislike shoveling snow, which side of the street do you want to live on? Duhhhhh. Not that side (and he points that general direction ... you know .... over there of course)!

Bigfoot Tracks

Tracks across my lawn reminded me of Edmund Hillary's images of the Yeti, abominable snowman tracks in the himlayas. For comparison, that's an actual dollar bill. Behold the tracks of the bigfoot - sasquatch andersonious:

Evidence ...

Who's been passing through my yard?

false_felis_silvestris_catus: 

bona_fide_felis_silvestris_catus

canine - possibly Canis latrans

felis_silvestris_catus with sciurus_carolinensis

actively engaged in changus_mindus_reversus

homo_sapiens_deliverus_mailus

Illusion

Same image, as photographed on left - inverted on right side. Make of it what you will.

Oh Ye, Behold, It Has Cometh!

The front end of Winter in southwest Ohio: