Making Sunshine – Italian American Festival

Akron, Ohio, is filled with things to do, even if it’s raining. In my opinion, nothing is better than great food, great music and great company, so when it poured on the day we had planned to go to the 68th anniversary of the Italian-American Festival downtown, we had big pouty faces. It wasn’t warm…

Category: Travel, Travel Highlights

REVIEW: Dare To Dream by Carys Jones

Fourteen-year-old Maggie Trafford is one of five children under the care of a single mother. Maggie is old enough to understand when her mother drinks too much, as well as question why their father left them and never returned. When Maggie begins having nightmares about the world coming to an end, she tries to talk…

Category: Books, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2015

CSA Farm Share Experiment Week Six

In week six of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share program with Fresh Fork Market, we’ve switched from the Vegan share to the Vegetarian share. We really like their pasture raised eggs that come in the Vegetarian share. I was raised on farm-fresh eggs and I’ve missed them. I remember taking my great-grandmother to…

Category: Food

Fireworks Spectacular in Sylvania, Ohio

We visited Sylvania, Ohio, with family and one of the fun things we did was attend their fireworks display. It was one of the best I’ve ever seen. We used several cameras, as well as our cell phones, to take pictures so it was fun to get back home and see how they turned out…

Category: Life through the Lens, Travel, Travel Highlights

Time savers for Fresh Veggie lovers

I believe in eating as organic as possible and the only way to do that in an affordable manner is to grow or buy your vegetables and fruits within your local harvesting season. If you’re not a gardener, the easiest way to do this is to frequent farmers’ markets, join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)…

Category: Food, Garden, What's for Dinner?

REVIEW: Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis

The first book of Jill Shalvis’ CEDAR RIDGE series will entertain readers with male camaraderie full of pranks and wisecracking, as well as a love story jam-packed with emotion from heartrending to heartwarming. Aidan Kincaid is a Colorado Wildland Firefighter as well as a local Search-and-Rescue volunteer, who still loves the girl that left him…

Category: Books, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2015

CSA Farm Share Experiment Week Four

In week four of the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share program with Fresh Fork Market, it feels like the normal thing to do. I’m no longer exhausted on market day because the photography goes much quicker and so does the cleaning and sorting. This week I split our Vegan share with my sister, who…

Category: Food

What’s Blooming in June in Ohio part 2

It has rained more in June than it has done anything else this year which has made photography more adventurous. I’m learning the beauty of raindrops on flowers magnified, such as these white blooms from the Yuccas below, because they’re usually there when I sneak in to take pictures in-between torrents. Even through the rain,…

Category: Garden, Life through the Lens

REVIEW: All the Right Places by Jenna Sutton

Can a denim dynasty CEO and a budding fashion designer work their way to a partnership of the heart? From San Francisco to Nashville, this couple hopes that love equals forgiveness in this contemporary romance. Quinn O’Brien makes quite an impression in the first chapter when he’s thinking about the butt of the woman on…

Category: Books, Reviews, TBR Mountain Range Challenge 2015

Into the Wild in Port Clinton, Ohio

We love meeting our youngest son and his family for a Small Town America escape. We’ll meet for a day, or stay over somewhere, making the most of small towns and why they’re so special. The towns on Lake Erie and the surrounding islands are some of our favorites. We love parks and animals are…