{Day 11} 31 Days of Autumn in Ohio – Lily Pads

Our visit to this park comes to an end today. It’s time to move to another location, have not decided our next destination – yet.

Despite all the lily pads, not a single frog was hopping around. Maybe they were taking a nap to rest up for their nightly performance.

Oh, and that orange pin oak leaf is not AI but God’s handiwork.

Bio: Michele Kearns is the founder and photographer of OgleOhio. She photographs various scenic views during her travels through Ohio, sharing the state’s scenery with people who may never experience the beauty in person. Michele hopes the scenery helps cool down readers living in tropical climates. She is also the founder and Hug© Award-Winning blogger of JoyReturns where she encourages widows to move forward through grief.

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{Day 10} 31 Days of Autumn in Ohio – Twisted Every Way – Part Deux

If you get a foot or the toe of your shoe caught in this hole and fall over the roots, you will end up with an ankle twisted every way.

The hole could belong to rats, voles, chipmunks, wood mice, bank voles, ground squirrels, or yellow jackets. Did not see any yellow jacket activity, so I don’t think it belonged to them.

Whoever it belongs to has a great view with the pond right outside their door.

The word “deux” is French for the number two.

Bio: Michele Kearns is the founder and photographer of OgleOhio. She photographs various scenic views during her travels through Ohio, sharing the state’s scenery with people who may never experience the beauty in person. Michele hopes the scenery helps cool down readers living in tropical climates. She is also the founder and Hug© Award-Winning blogger of JoyReturns where she encourages widows to move forward through grief.

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{Day9} 31 Days of Autumn in Ohio – Twisted Every Way

While sitting on a bench, I looked up and noticed these pin oak branches going this-a-way and that-a-way. Immediately I thought of the song from Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical The Phantom of the Opera – Twisted Every Way.

It also reminds me of the talking trees Dorothy and the Scarecrow encountered in The Wizard of Oz.

By the way, Happy 40th Birthday to The Phantom of the Opera which premiered in London’s West End 40 years ago tonight.

Bio: Michele Kearns is the founder and photographer of OgleOhio. She photographs various scenic views during her travels through Ohio, sharing the state’s scenery with people who may never experience the beauty in person. Michele hopes the scenery helps cool down readers living in tropical climates. She is also the founder and Hug© Award-Winning blogger of JoyReturns where she encourages widows to move forward through grief.

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