Category: local sights
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Carillon Park is a park full of the history of Dayton. Carillon Park is also known for their eagles. For the past few years, the Eagles have laid eggs in a tree above the building that holds the 1905 Wright B Flyer. Today I decided to go and hopefully take some photos of Orv and…
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Gaston, our puppy, and I had gone to drop off Oldest at school yesterday morning. When we dropped off Youngest an hour prior, it had been super foggy. So foggy that Oldest, who was in the car, told me that it reminded him of a horror movie. He was expecting some tentacles to drop out…
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One of our favorite places to walk is Oakes Quarry. It’s a reclaimed limestone quarry that has the most interesting landscape. Last night, the Scouts decided to meet there for a social distance walk / get together after not seeing each other for months. I joined along so that I could take photos. Instead of…
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The past week has been trying for us. The Oldest had his first heartbreak and break up. I’ve had to be a “friend,” mom, and sounding block. As I said, it’s been trying. For 2 weeks prior to the break up, we have gone through mopey Oldest, angry Oldest, and then happy Oldest. It was…
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Every year or almost every year since 2010, we have a tradition of going to see the sunflowers in a town near us. They have a field that blooms for about 2 weeks. It is absolutely gorgeous so many people stop to take photos and even draw pictures of the sunflowers. It’s gotten so popular…
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Three weeks ago, the most unbelievable disaster occurred in our area. Fifteen tornadoes tore through the area. One was an EF-4 tornado that traveled 19 miles and had a width of 0.7 miles at it’s largest point. Another one was an EF-3 that traveled 10 miles.
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One of the hardest hit areas of Dayton was near the Wegerzyn Gardens MetroPark. Part of the park was destroyed in the tornado. The gardens were untouched with the exception of some plywood.
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For today’s writing prompt, I decided to share some videos that I have been taken after the Memorial Day tornado outbreak. After the tornado outbreak, at least 80 traffic lights were blown out or were not working because of the lack of power in the area. As a result, many major intersections became four way…
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As I looked at the writing prompts for this week, I could not figure out which one of the prompts would go along with what I wanted to write/ share about. Then I was driving around yesterday after the Memorial Day tornadoes, I was driving in one of the areas hit by one of the…
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Actually I should say tornadoes. Yesterday was a beautiful day. High 60’s/ low 70’s, cloud cover most of the day so it was not too hot.
