This post is a continuation of “Snowy Ohio Morning, Take 2”, of photos around my folks' place after a snowstorm. After 49½ years at the same place, it's probably the last winter they'll be here, so I thought I'd memorialize the place with some more photos, mostly for my siblings' and my own memory...

I still remember coming home from elementary school one day to find it in the driveway. He bought it when adding on to our house, but he still uses it 40 years later to clear snow from the driveway.

We all wished he would have painted “Tonka” onto the main arm.

Peter Barnes has left lovely comments on my blog for the better part of a decade, usually signing his name as “Peter from Wales”. His very first comment, in February 2007, about some flower or other I had happened to post a photo of really made an impact. Back then I had few readers and received few comments, so his lovely comment made me feel great, and gave me the idea that if I were to include more flora on my blog, I'd get more lovely comments. It's that one comment more than any other thing that opened my photographic eyes, because once I started actively looking for pretty flowers to shoot, I started seeing beauty and interest everywhere.

Thank you Peter.

In a recent email to my Mom about moss or birds or something, he joked that my blog had more cycling than plants recently, so when I went out after the snow storm, I made sure to take something “planty” just for Peter. 😉

I remember collecting dandelions in this field when I was three years old, from which my mom made wine and jam and jelly. Some of the wine is still in the basement, the bottles covered with a thick layer of dust. My brother Alan and I broke one out the other day. It was dated 1969. We expected it to be rancid vinegar, but it was excellent. It smelled heavenly. Dandelion wine does apparently have a particular taste that takes some getting used to, but by the third little sip I was into it. Yummy.

The half-empty bottle, still covered in dust, is waiting on the kitchen counter for other siblings to sample.

After coming in from three hours of shooting, I tried some bird shots. There's nothing photographically exciting, but I like the content...

Earlier posts with better bird pictures include:

• Goldfinches in a Light Snow
• Freezing Bird Movement with a Fast Shutter
• Fun Day of Snow Play
• Can’t Get Any Work Done With Birds on my Laptop

I'll be in Ohio for another two months, at least, and hope to get some better shots. I brought only one lens with me on this quickly-decided trip, though, and it's not really appropriate for this kind of shot. I guess fate is telling me that I need to buy another lens or three. 😉