Just to represent the highlights of the waning summer, here is a group photo of our little ol' bank from church (said church actually making it into this picture, with the steeple back there on the right hand side). We went out on our second annual "world tour" on August 11, traveling all the way down to this downtown park with a suitable gazebo and plenty of grassy area for folks to bring folding chairs. It was a lot of fun, aside from the rain that settled in for the last couple of songs, causing us to shorten the set list by a tune or two. Interesting factoid: the woman on the lower left-hand corner does not actually play guitar. But she can sing.
We were down at the reservoir park with the dogs a week or so ago and I liked the way the light was infiltrating a portion of the woods here, casting a kinda Kincaidian light, if you will.
Then just yesterday, we went down to Columbus to celebrate our son's birthday and took him and his girlfriend out to a Japanese steak house. I enjoy those places, and have been known to aggravate my wife on numerous occasions while clumsily trying to emulate the sounds and motions of the Japanese cooks who prepare the food in front of you, banging on and rattling utensils, flipping foods around and catching them on spatulas, etc. Its' great fun. Watching more than attempting in one's own home.
So, anyway, there are clearly not pictures of a Japanese steak house. After we ate, William's girl friend unfortunately had to go to work, but the three of us went on to check out the Garden of Roses in Whetstone Park up in the Clintonville section of Columbus. It is an amazing place, and a friend on Facebook informed me that it would likely be moreso in June when there would be many more roses blooming. But when we saw it yesterday, it was not bad.
I was amazed at the variety of colors among the roses.
This is the view of the place from a nice little observation platform. I am a sucker for observation platforms, whether in Gettysburg, a park out in the middle of nowhere, or an urban rose garden. The grass was a bit scorched there on the left in the back, but whose isn't this summer?
And a few more pictures from the Garden of Roses.
2 comments:
Great pictures, Ben! I love the sunlight coming through the trees and the roses. I've never been to Whetstone Park.
Nice picture of your church group too. We often have musical groups perform in the gazebo on our courthouse square downtown here.
Nice pictures. Such pretty roses. That place reminds me of King Gardens.
I will await the video of the performance.
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