Thursday: Galena to Defiance

We took our morning walk with Mucci.  Every time we have gone on a different route.  They have a lot of trails.  It was much cooler after the rain last night.

Rob and Lisa live on Via Florenza

Lisa, Rob and Mucci

We drove to Defiance Ohio. It is about a 2 1/2 hour drive.  Nathan drove the first half and George drove the second half.  We arrived around noon, just in time for lunch. We had fresh corn, quiche and fruit.

Dorothy and Ed's place

Our AirBnB is the right part of this building.  

We had a turtle to greet us.

Living room, kitchen and dining room

Our bedroom and the door to the bathroom

Stairs to the loft where Nathan would sleep.

Soon after we got there, George S arrive with Amelia.  She is about 14 months old.

Amelia

Nathan with Guinness[

George S, Amelia and Nathan

Amelia having lunch

After lunch we all went on a walk.  We] stopped at a neighbor's home.  They wanted us to tour their yard.I was a beautiful yard with lots to see.  They have already staked out where their ashes will be buried.

A lot of mosaic and glass work around

An old bridge that broght from somewhere

The same neighbor is the one who did Dorothy and Ed's stained glass

George S and Amelia left so that Amelia could take a nap and then Rob left. Dorothy, Nathan and I went grocery shopping. We started working on dinner.  It was a group effort.

George S, Valeria and Amelia returned in time for dinner. We had a very nice dinner with salmon, green bean & tofu stir-fry and rice.  Nathan made a cookie, brownie dessert.

Dorothy playing with Amelia

Cookie brownie

After dinner we went on a walk.  It was very pleasant out.

Valerie, George and Amelia

Thureau Wildlife Refuge 

Butterfly Garden 

We turned around after getting to the butterfly garden.

Beebalm (one of its names)

Guinness was starting to get tired but he did not enjoy being carried.

We visited for a while before heading to our AirBnB.  

Wednesday in Galena, near Columbus

Sunrise 

A morning walk with Mucci. Lisa had to work today, so she could not join us.  Rob is retired.

We went over to the community garden.  Rob has a plot.

Birds nests for Purple Martins

Giant Sunflowers

Goldfinch on a sunflower

This is Rob's plot 

George, Mucci, Rob and Nathan

After our walk we had breakfast and then got ready for our outing.  We drove to Westerville.  It is another little town close by.  We were going to Inniswoods Metro Garden. It is a very nice garden with trails and flowers and many sections geared towards kids.

Knot Garden

The dragonflies were all over.  This one stayed put long enough for me to get the picture.

Cute story labyrinth.  The plaques on the ground were numbered.  They had parts of a story so you needed to follow the path to read the story in the correct sequence.

Sky Woman with muskrat claw marks on the back of the turtle.  The end

Rob and George

A fun house in the woods

A box turtle for a class for kids.

Poison Ivy.  It was all over.

Part of the trail was a board walk.  Very pretty but by now it was getting hot and humid.

We got back to the car and drove into downtown Westerville.  

We dinked around in several shops. These stained glass pieces reminded me of your artwork, Sharon.

Street scene

We decided to go for lunch.  I did not take any pictures.

The food was good.  After lunch we headed home to relax a while.  I had a 2 pm Zoom call to make.  When the call was over we drove back to Westerville for ice cream.

I had the Buckeye Breeze. 

We wandered around town a bit more, but now stores were starting to close.

We did go into this tea shop.

Nathan and Mucci

We had a good dinner.  Lisa had made a tortelini pesto salad and Rob cut up a bunch of other vegies for a big green salad.  When they thought that it had cooled off a little they went on another walk.  I stayed home and took pictures of the clouds. 

Cool cloud formations.  I think that it is gearing up for a rain.  

Nathan, George and Rob made it home just it time.  It started pouring with thunder and lightning.  We tried to take some movies from the back yard, but it was too dark.  But both Nathan and I managed to get a little wet.