After doing some work this morning I walked down to the Columbus Arts Festival. The 2012 Festival has moved back to its traditional location on the riverfront, and the relocation was an inspired decision. There’s lots of room for artists’ booths, street food tents, seating, and three performance stages. The booths and tents run along [...]
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Columbus Arts Festival 2012
Posted in Art, Columbus, tagged Art, Columbus, Columbus Arts Festival, Downtown Columbus, Main Street bridge, Rich Street bridge, Scioto River on June 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is It Memorial Tournament Weekend?
Posted in Columbus, Humor, weather, Photography, tagged Columbus, Golf, Humor, weather, Rain, Photography, Memorial Tournament, Puddle on June 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Yeppers. Rain all day, cool temperatures, a brisk, rising wind, and a dark sky threatening more showers. The Memorial is here! (Spencer Levin and Scott Stallings are tied for the lead.)
Time For Our Memorial Tournament Rain
Posted in Columbus, sports, Humor, weather, tagged Columbus, sports, Humor, weather, Dublin, Rain, Memorial Tournament, Jack Nicklaus, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Chief Leatherlips, Wyandot on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been hot and dry in Columbus recently — but all that is about to change. Tomorrow the Memorial Tournament begins at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, a Columbus suburb. It’s a terrific tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus on a fabulous golf course. As any Columbus resident also knows, however, it also means [...]
It’s A Food Truck World
Posted in Columbus, Food, tagged Ajumama, Columbus, Columbus Commons, Food, Food Trucks, Green Meanie, Ohioana Book Festival, Per Zoot, Pitabilities on May 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I worked hard at the Ohioana Book Festival today. There was a big turnout, lots of books were purchased, and I helped to make sure that visitors who signed up for Ohioana information via email and spun a wheel got their prizes. By the time my shift was over, I was a hungry camper. Fortunately, [...]
Big Red
Posted in Columbus, Growing Up, Photography, tagged Columbus, Fire Trucks, Fireman, Growing Up, Little Boys, New Albany, New Albany Plain Township Fire Department, Photography on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There was a block party in our neighborhood last night, and the New Albany/Plain Township Fire Department showed up with three of their fire trucks. Walking past the gleaming red trucks, I couldn’t help but feel the stirrings of the little boy inside. What boy didn’t, at some time or another, harbor dreams of becoming [...]
The Raccoon Beneath The Grate
Posted in Columbus, tagged Animals, Columbus, Dreams, New Albany, Nightmares, Raccoons, Sewers on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A raccoon, and perhaps a family of raccoons, appears to live in the storm sewers in our neighborhood. Once, on a morning walk, I saw a hunched shape scrabbling across the street and toward the sewer grate in the pre-dawn darkness. The raccoon plunged into the sewer. When we passed by a few moments later, [...]
Like Monster Fingers Dipped In Ink
Posted in Columbus, Photography, tagged Columbus, house and grounds, Photography, Pine Trees, spring on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As usual, we’re seeing lots of spring growth in the pine trees in our back yard. They started as tiny sticks planted in a muddy new development, now they are fully grown and the tallest trees in our neighborhood. Every year we see a few more feet in height, as well as the soft, neon [...]
Spring Frost
Posted in Columbus, Photography, weather, tagged Columbus, Frost, New Albany, Photography, spring, weather on April 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We got down into the 20s overnight, and when the dogs and I took our walk this morning there was a heavy frost on the ground. As we walked the sun rose, making the frost-covered fairways looked like sheets of pewter streaked with the melting rays of sunshine.
The Coyotes Of Columbus
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, tagged Animals, Columbus, Coyotes, Ohio, Urban Coyotes on April 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
No one would mistake Columbus, Ohio for the Wild West, but we now have one thing in common — coyotes. A peaceful suburbanite will sip her morning coffee and look out into the backyard, and be startled to see a brown, loose-limbed creature ambling across the lawn. They call them “urban coyotes,” and studies indicate [...]
At Franklin Park Conservatory
Posted in Columbus, Ohio, Photography, tagged Columbus, Franklin Park Conservatory, Ohio, Photography on March 31, 2012 | 3 Comments »
This spring the grounds of the Franklin Park Conservatory are looking very fine, indeed. This lovely scene is just one of many pretty areas you can find in that tranquil spot, located only a mile or two from the heart of downtown Columbus.
A Walk For A Friend
Posted in Columbus, tagged Columbus, Death, Franklin Park Conservatory, Ken Golonka, Ken Golonka Memorial Walk, National Blood Clot Alliance on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since our friend and colleague, Ken Golonka, died tragically and unexpectedly. Today was the first annual Ken Golonka Memorial Walk, a three-kilometer stroll through the grounds of the Franklin Park Conservatory, with the proceeds to benefit the National Blood Clot Alliance. It was a cold and overcast [...]
Doonesbury And The Dispatch
Posted in Columbus, Comics, tagged Columbus, Columbus Dispatch, Comics, Doonesbury, newspapers on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Recently Doonesbury featured a series of strips that addressed a Texas abortion law. Our local newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, decided not to carry the strips. That decision caused some controversy, and the Dispatch‘s editor wrote a column explaining the reasoning for his decision. In essence, his argument was that the Doonesbury strips in question really [...]
Noisy Restaurants
Posted in Columbus, Food, tagged Columbus, Food, New York City Delis, Noise, Noisy Restaurants, restaurants on March 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last night Kish and I went to a new restaurant in the area. The food was quite good, but I’m not sure I ever want to go back. The reason? Noise. Lots of noise. Ridiculous amounts of noise. Ringing, echoing peals of laughter from the people a few tables away. People standing next to our [...]
A Shooting On Gay Street (Cont.)
Posted in Columbus, crime, Work, tagged Columbus, crime, Downtown Columbus, Gay Street, Shooting, Stabbing, Work on March 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Those of us who work on Gay Street have been dealing with the aftermath of the stabbing and shooting incident that happened on our street on Wednesday. We’ve learned about the heroism of one of the workers in the office where the madman attacked. The worker fought the assailant, helped to save a fellow employee, [...]
Big Dance, Meet Columbus
Posted in Columbus, sports, tagged Columbus, Georgetown, Memphis, Michigan State, nationwide arena, NCAA Tournament, North Carolina State, sports on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Columbus gets some first-hand exposure to March Madness this weekend, as the NCAA Tournament comes to town. Four games will be played today in Nationwide Arena, and the winners will match up in two games on Sunday. Among the teams who will be playing are Michigan State, Georgetown, North Carolina State, and Memphis, so we’ll [...]
