Uptown florist Dave Talbott shares a laugh as he works in his backroom creating another floral arrangement on a cool and rainy January afternoon. My Final Photo for Jan. 10, 2020.

A Westerville city electric crew pulls a fiber sleeve for data cables through conduit beneath Huber Village Blvd. and Eastwind Dr. as the city expands its data capability in the south end of the city. My Final Photo for Jan. 9, 2020.

A Miller Pipeline worker sweeps away debris after covering a section of West Main where the company bored a pipeline for Columbia Gas to install new services to the Holmes Hotel, in background, and its businesses in Uptown Westerville. My Final Photo for Jan. 8, 2020.

Westerville Police Reserve officers Ted Bretthauer, in blue blazer, and John Clay, right, receive congratulatory handshakes from other officers after the two received commendation coins after retiring from the police force with 80 years of law enforcement experience between the two men. My Final Photo for Jan. 7, 2020.

Shadows from the walnut trees behind the farmhouse on the Braun Farm cast themselves in unusual shapes toward the barn on a warm winter afternoon. My Final Photo for Jan. 6, 2020.

A woman steadies her discarded Christmas tree into place at the Alum Creek Lake Visitors Center where the tree and collection of other families trees are destined to be used as fish habitat in the lake. My Final Photo for Dec. 5, 2020.

Volunteers tie teal bows to utility poles and trees in Uptown Westerville marking Cervical Cancer Awareness Month with a program named Paint the Town Teal. My Final Photo for Jan. 4, 2020.

A slack line indicates both the stillness of the waters at Schrock Lake and this fisherman’s success on a rainy Friday afternoon. My Final Photo for Jan. 3, 2020.

Rodney Parker uses draft horses Belle, left, and Smoky, to pull an ash tree trunk from the woods bordering a small creek off Africa Road where modern office buildings now line the skyline where farm fields once stood. My Final Photo for Dec. 2, 2020. 

A Red-Shouldered Hawk launches itself from a bluebird nesting box where it perched watching the meadow fields on the shoreline of Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for Jan. 1, 2020.

A Tim Horton’s barista serves a cup of coffee to a drive-thru customer shortly after the new two window drive-thru only coffee shop opened one lane for business Tuesday in Glengary Center in Blendon Township. My Final Photo for Dec. 31, 2019.

Broken windows, rotting siding, and collapsed gutters mark the condition of the family farmhouse left abandoned when the farm stopped operation. My Final Photo for Dec. 30, 2019.

Parishioners arrive before sunrise during an early morning rain for the first Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Church Sunday. My Final Photo for Dec. 29, 2019.

An angler checks the water level and depth at the end of the Red Bank boat ramp as he prepares himself and his gear for a day of winter fishing on the low and unfrozen water at Hoover Reservoir. My Final Photo for Dec. 28, 2019.

A young boy carrying a football sprints to keep up with his family crossing the footbridge along the edge of the wetlands at Highlands Park. My Final Photo for Dec. 27, 2019.