Rooftops and buildings in Uptown Westerville feel the warmth of the sun after several weeks of cold and wet weather. My Final Photo for February 1, 2024.

Jeweler Bill Morgan resets a 1.28-carat diamond in its mount after examining the stone during repairs at Morgan’s Treasure in Uptown Westerville. My Final Photo for January 31, 2024.

The footer for the southern patio at High Bank Distillery is filled with about 30 yards of concrete pumped into forms that outline the shape of the raised deck. My Final Photo for January 30, 2024.

Plants and flowers in the front window of Talbott’s Flowers in Uptown get a spray wash to clear away the winter dust and cobwebs. My Final Photo for January 29, 2024.

A young chess player makes his opening move during a chess club meeting match at the Westerville Public Library Sunday afternoon. My Final Photo for January 28, 2024.

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.

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.

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.

A pair of birders check in different directions through the afternoon fog across Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for January 24, 2024.

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.

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.

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.