Read F8 - The My Final Photo Newsletter
Resting Lakeside
A man lies on a picnic table for a few minutes of rest on a warm day at the dock on Schrock Lake at Sharon Woods Metro Park. My Final Photo for June 16, 2022.
Sweating The Heat Away
A drop of sweat hangs from the nose of an installer putting fencing around the refurbished tennis courts behind the slide at Highlands Aquatic Center. My Final Photo for June 15., 2022.
Final Honors
David Lilley, surrounded by family and friends, accepts the flag that covered his brother's casket after a military funeral honoring the Korean War soldier whose remains were recently identified after 71 years. My Final Photo for June 14, 2022.
Prohibition Returns To Westerville
Westerville History Museum Manager Nina Thomas holds one of the museum's prohibition-era lantern slides returned to the library from storage at the Ohio History Collection where it and other items in the museum were temporarily stored. My Final Photo for June 13, 2022.
A woman kneels in prayer at the Holy Mary shrine before the first Mass on Sunday. My Final Photo for June 12, 2022.
Hoover Afternoon
Family and friends gather in the shade of a tree on a bright afternoon to watch as part of their group take turns fishing in the small lagoon near the dam at Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for June 11, 2022.
Home After 71 Years
A U.S. Army honor guard delivers the casket of Korean War veteran Jack Lilley who was killed in action 71 years ago and only recently identified as the brother of David Lilley of Westerville. My Final Photo for June 10, 2022.
Smoothing The Home Street Lot
A paving crew applies the first coat of fresh asphalt after milling away the old surface for the Home And State Streets parking lot. My Final Photo for June 9, 2022.
Whole Lotta Road Closed
A concrete manhole base is set over an existing storm drain before the old drain is cut open to create a connection for new storm sewers being laid on East College near Otterbein Ave. My Final Photo for June 8, 2022.
Collecting Connection Data
A pipeline crew uses a GPS locator to register location data for new gas lines installed during road construction along East Home Street and Whitehead. My Final Photo for June 7, 2022.
Farm Flowers
Wild daisies stretch to the morning sun from the edge of a freshly planted field of soybeans on the Braun Farm in Westerville. My Final Photo for June 7, 2022.
Defending The Nest
A red-winged blackbird dives out of the sun to try and scare away an intruder nearing its nest in the small prairie land at the Highlands wetlands. My Final Photo for June 5, 2022.
Taking Seed
Mother and daughter stand with the plants and seeds they gathered at the Seed and Plant Exchange Saturday afternoon in the Westerville Public Library. My Final Photo for January 27, 2024.
Right Rear Wrecked
A rear tire sits on the sidewalk after it was separated from a car in a crash at South State Street and Heatherdown Drive. My Final Photo for January 26, 2024.
Rolling Fog
A man walks up the steps at Hoover Dam where afternoon fog from melting ice rolls across the top of the dam to the creek bed below. My Final Photo for January 25, 2024.
Fogged Birding
A pair of birders check in different directions through the afternoon fog across Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for January 24, 2024.
Farewell Westerville
The snowman painted in the window of Whit’s in Uptown Westerville appears to be giving a farewell wave as he is scraped from the front window clearing the storefront of all signs of Christmas and winter as it prepares to offer Valentine’s Day specials. My Final Photo for January 23, 2024.
Distillery Doorway Opens
Workers prepare to put a temporary covering over the new doorway cut into the Winter Street side of the old post office in Uptown as it is converted from the detective bureau for the police department to the High Bank Distillery restaurant across the street from a sculptor about Westerville’s history in the Prohibition movement. My Final Photo for January 22, 2024.
Winter Fallow Field
Barns at the Yarnell farm on Africa Road are lit by sunset light falling across the fallow winter fields that bore a crop of soybeans last summer. My Final Photo for January 21, 2024.