jens voigt

inspiring beauty.  coming down a mountain in the tour de france, jens fell off a ravine.  got up, came out of the bushes, and kept going.  jens (39) fell again.  got up and powered to the front to help the schleck brothers.  jens blog of the day  


another time he crashed, bike ruined, and borrowed a child's yellow bicycle with toe clips.

little miami river canoe area

urban beauty

johnny bench at the cincinnati reds hall of fame

beautiful baseball?  unpredictable.  hall of fame - cool, colorful, and full on interactive activities (how many baseballs can you hold?).

johnny bench could hold seven baseballs.

blueberry bread

 here is a once a year treat in our house.  this blueberry bread recipe calls for four cups of blueberries, so this bread is a health food!  find the recipe here.  it's from Penzy's Spices. see if you like it..

kings island

the car thermometer read 102 degrees on the way to kings island.  crazy to go, but we were visiting special out-of-towners.  the new swing, windseeker, goes up 301 feet before going around.  the view from way up is beautiful, but i didn't want to drop my camera.  

bridges

i went running in the heat with my crazies - people from Bob Roncker's Running Spot - and stopped to take these shots with my phone.  The Ohio River is beautiful.

hyde park farmers' market art

beautiful greeting cards
hooray for roesie greetings

beauty...

expected...

and surprise.

mid-july treats

drizzly farmers' market

the water was warm.

improvised life

a beautiful online thing - the manifesto at theimprovisedlife.com.  allowing mistakes, testing new approaches - learning, essentially.  


when i was in grad school and struggling to fit in kids, work, and studies, my husband put this in a two part frame:


When you are in a situation
where nothing that has
happened in the past tells
you what to do, there is only
one course of action:                           Improvise  
                                                                                                Peter F. Drucker                      

summer

summer beauty is easy to find.

science learning

learning is a beautiful thing.  clearly i have a lot to learn about blogging - how to turn off underline, for one.  this book is full of interesting science of totally different topics, all connected to innovation and ideas.  the adjacent possible - essentially the possibility next door - the new thing - is very exciting.  try something new and it leads to other new possibilities.  also the idea of sharing, how innovation comes not from "groupthink", but from individuals sharing their learning.  the slow hunch.  interesting stuff.  (well, and who turned off underline when i wasn't looking?)

construction

took a hardhat tour of the sharonville convention center.  it was very interesting to see a building in progress.   the lower level was cool, but the upper level was very hot.  of course it was 95 outside.

the main entrance will be tall and filled with light.

franklin park conservatory- columbus

Chihuly glass, water, and flowers.  Even the man cleaning the art was lovely.   Chatty and interesting.

beautiful book- kids make dinner.

Pumpkin juice from the Hogwarts Express, Kreacher's onion soup, Mrs. Weasley's rosemary redskin potatoes, and chocolate pudding for dessert.  An everyday joy, compliments of the children.  

mercantile library

beautiful space, history.  interesting books

Starting slow...

I've always wanted to make a picture book with the remarkable beauty of things - regular stuff - usable, made or natural.  It's time to capture this beautiful stuff.