Rough Place To Relax

A young girl relaxes on a rock after helping care for a neighbor’s dog during a family walk at Highland Wetlands. My Final Photo for June 10, 2025.

A young girl relaxes on a rock after helping care for a neighbor’s dog during a family walk at Highland Wetlands. My Final Photo for June 10, 2025.

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The Replacements

The Replacements

American Electric Power linemen switch electrical cables onto a replacement power pole on 3C Highway just north of Maxtown Road in Genoa Township. My Final Photo for November 12, 2024.

Feeding It To The Hogs

Feeding It To The Hogs

Pete Carmona, left, and Chris Smiley toss pumpkin remainders from the Scout Troop 84 Pumpkin Patch at the Masonic Hall into shipping cages where they will end up on a pig farm as fodder for a porcine dinner. My Final Photo for October 31, 2024.

Empty Hook

Empty Hook

A fisherman retrieves his empty hook for rebaiting while fishing below the low-head dam at Alum Creek Park North Wednesday afternoon. My Final Photo for October 30, 2024.

Pie Face Scrunch

Pie Face Scrunch

An Otterbein student scrunches her face just before getting a paper plate of whipped cream from a donor who made a cash contribution to Children’s Hospital as part of the Otterthon Trunk or Treat event on campus Tuesday evening. My Final Photo for October 29, 2024.

Sparkling Water Fishing

Sparkling Water Fishing

Two fishermen sit on the spit of land that once was Walnut Street, now uncovered by low water levels in Hoover Reservoir, as a third angler configures his lures from a boat. My Final Photo for October 28, 2024.

Sunrise Over Highlands Fields

Sunrise Over Highlands Fields

Sunrise brightens the morning across the fields at Highlands Park and the surrounding neighborhood with Hoover Reservoir as a backdrop. My Final Photo for October 27, 2024.

Alum Creek Golden Sunset

Alum Creek Golden Sunset

The setting sun throws its golden light through the twin maple trees growing on the bank of Alum Creek below the spillway in the park on West Main Street. My Final Photo for October 26, 2024.

Maximum Maxtown View

Maximum Maxtown View

Roofers lay new asphalt shingles on the steep incline over the Kroger store on Maxtown Road. My Final Photo for October 25, 2024.

Hoff Woods Fall Sunset

Hoff Woods Fall Sunset

The afternoon spills shadows across the ball fields at Hoff Woods Park. My Final Photo for October 24, 2024.

Macabre Neighborhood Walk

Macabre Neighborhood Walk

Mother and child casually walk by a garage door covered with a Pennywise the Dancing Clown mural as part of a macabre Halloween decoration on Spring Road. My Final Photo for October 23, 2024.

Final Hay Cut

Final Hay Cut

A farmer runs a hay rake through the thin layer of drought-damaged hay on the sharp farmland on Africa Road. My Final Photo for October 22, 2024.

Hoover Sunrise

Hoover Sunrise

A lone fisherman stands at the edge of Hoover Reservoir just before sunrise to get an early start on a day of hopeful fishing pleasure. My Final Photo for October 21, 2024.

Urban Strings At the Library

Urban Strings At the Library

Urban Strings Columbus performs Sunday afternoon at the Westerville Library as the library celebrates Black History Month. My Final Photo for February 9, 2025.

Celebrating With Champagne In The Morning

Celebrating With Champagne In The Morning

Blue Turtle Tea and Spice owner Alex Maddox, second from left, celebrates with friends and family a champagne toast for the grand reopening of her store on East College Saturday morning. My Final Photo for February 8, 2025.

Eating Her Profits

Eating Her Profits

A Girl Scout quickly slips a portion of a Thin Mint cookie into her mouth during a short break from selling the iconic cookies in front of Graeter’s in Uptown Westerville Friday. My Final Photo for February 7, 2025.

More Winter to come

More Winter to come

Heavy clouds move across Uptown Westerville at dusk, signaling the arrival of cold temperatures for the next week. My Final Photo for February 6, 2025.

Future Farmers of Westerville

Future Farmers of Westerville

A bundle of hoses hangs from a wooden post and holder at one of the intersections in the Westerville community garden, where a couple of future farmers have already begun to prepare their plots for Spring planting. My Final Photo for February 5, 2025.

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

One of eight does grazing in the woods at Heritage Park looks over the neighborly split rail fence to inspect the intentions of an interloping photographer disturbing their meal Tuesday afternoon. My Final Photo for February 4, 2025.

Winter Mowing At Sharon Woods

Winter Mowing At Sharon Woods

The Sharon Woods Metro Park winter grounds crew mowed another section of open field Monday, working around empty bluebird boxes and groundhogs. My Final Photo for February 3, 2025.