Tag: local sights
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Eagles at Carillon Park
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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Oakes Quarry
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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Our Adventure | September 29
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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Sunflowers | September 9, 2019
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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Trauma Informed Care/ Teaching
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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So Many Stop Signs – Videos of the Memorial Day Destruction
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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Vintage Antiques Sold Here – Memorial Day Tornadoes Photos
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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Memorial Day 2019 Tornado
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.
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Dayton Masonic Center – Lots of Photos
Many years ago, I would visit the Dayton Masonic Temple, as it was known, for Rainbow events. We were only ever allowed on the first and basement. The top floors were off limits and forbidden because we were girls. That was the men’s area.
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Boy, Was It Hot! – What I ate at the Outdoor Experience – Day 9 of 31
A local park has an Outdoor Experience during the first weekend in October. Visitors can try out different outdoor experiences, watch dogs jump off a dock, camp out, etc . . . You never know what the weather will be like during this experience. Sometimes it is cold, cool, or even wet. This year it […]
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