My folks have a small farm (here in Rootstown, Ohio, where I'm visiting for the summer) that they've rented out since before I could remember. I do remember, perhaps 35 years ago, the last time we fixed it up. 35 years of hard labor later, and it's looking a bit rough for wear.

A renter just moved out after having been there 15 or so years, so I took the opportunity to walk around, and snapped some pictures of the decaying barn and even-worse-shape henhouse....

The "haunted tree" appears to have been quite a large tree at one point, but [...]

Prior to last week's visit to Vancouver and Whistler, I'd been enjoying the dynamic clouds during my trip to Ohio for the summer. (I posted some sorta' pretty cloud pictures here, here, and here.)

I'm back in Ohio now for another week or so, but the weather has been cold and drizzly, so I'm not getting any of the wonderful cloudscapes we had before. Still, I have plenty of pictures from before the Canada trip. The ones on this post are from a 10-minute walk with the camera down by the lake, one afternoon three weeks ago...

I love [...]

One goes to Whistler (in B.C., Canada) for the nature and outdoor sports like bike riding, but kids just want to play, so we indulged Anthony with some of the kid activities the village offered.

Here, five-year-old Anthony tries a "bungee trampoline" kind of thing. The quality of the photos is horrid, but I want to preserve the memory, so they're here nevertheless.

He then bounced up and down with the operator's help, eventually getting quite high....

I would have loved to have had a tripod to make a longer exposure, to show the movement....

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was really impressed with our room at the Four Seasons Resort in Whistler (British Columbia, Canada). Not only was the room big, with lots of nice features (e.g. private veranda, two bathrooms, etc.), but like the whole hotel, the interior design and decoration is absolutely first class all the way.

Unlike the gaudy, pretentious, highly ostentatious displays in Las Vegas, or what you might expect from, say, Donald Trump, this place was low-key quality through and through. Las Vegas is what you'd end up with if you had unlimited funds, but limited [...]

I'm traveling back to Ohio today, so no time to show all 600 pictures I took yesterday, but here's one. What is it? (Looking at the "full exif & map" link gives a strong clue, so no guessing after having looked.)

The answer is given here.