I have a new post up at the Discovering Ohio Blog. Looking at the pictures again almost makes we want to drive over there again to see the 3.5 million lights. Each one of the twinkles are controlled by one switch — in a flash, at 6 p.m. on the dot, the entire scene is [...]
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During our tour of Napa last summer, we thought it might nice to join a wine club so that we could receive brand new California wines on our doorstep. So that we could remember those Osyters we had, in the morning, as we were driving back to San Francisco, on dreary, blah days, just like [...]
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This year’s family annual Pumpkin Patch trek happenend at bit earlier this year. The DiscoveringOhio blog sent me out to ferret out the best of the best pumpkin patches in advance, so that you could know where to go. Lehner’s Pumpkin Farm made the top of the list. (Friend them on FB here.) These orange [...]
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There was once a cow pasture just outside of Dayton, Ohio, where the Wright Brothers, in their own words, “really learned to fly.” In 1904, without Kitty Hawk NC’s high winds, the brothers got a plane off the ground, and learned to do circles and figure 8s. This cow pasture is now the home [...]
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My new favorite restaurant places an unbleached tissue paper menu on each dinner plate, and they get little grease stains on them from the butter they give you to eat with your bread. The joint opens at 11, so we had to wait 4 long minutes to get a seat. The menu makes an awesome [...]
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There was a sign along the country road we were driving on that pointed to the Raymond Burr Winery. “Let’s go see if it’s his,” I said. So, my husband turned the car… and it was his winery. THE Perry Mason that sustained me through those hot summer months in middle school and high school [...]
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The lady had no teeth… but boy could she grow vegetables. I couldn’t wait to get my hands dirty in the farmhouse kitchen of the house we were staying in, and use some of the vegetables that were growing on the vegetable farm just down the road. The window over the sink in our farmhouse [...]
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The name Chalk Hill comes from the volcanic soil of chalky white ash, which produces remarkable wines like Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. However the soils themselves do not contain any chalk but rather are composed of a mixture of quartzite volcanic ash, sand and silty loam. The volcanic was emitted into the area by Mount [...]
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Northern California is so beautiful, and so different from the MidWest… I am in awe every second here, as if maybe I’ve really left planet Earth, and, as one of our roommates said, “We’re in the Garden of Eden.” We’re actually in Healdsburg, which is a small rural area — and by rural, I mean [...]
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