First Snow of 2019 (January 12-13, 2019)

Interesting couple of days here in the Miami Valley, in fact in a number of states as the first big winter storm of the new year came rolling in over the Saturday and Sunday of the weekend.
It was a beautiful thing to see, and even made a small bunny sculpture on Saturday which later in the day got covered  up by even more snow as the storm went on.
I would say living in Richmond we did not see much snow but at least in the last couple of years that had not been the case. Just a while back they got something like a foot of snow there, while for last fall/early winter in 2018 2.4 inches here total.   

I wandered out a little bit on Saturday and took this photo on the nearby lake (well, part of the lake). Liked the combination of snow and ice seen here though most of the lake was still open water.
I enjoy winter scenes now even more so because I am retired plus it was the weekend. We did not need to get out any as the word about this storm came days early so spent the time just looking out the window or wandered about on foot looking at the sights of the Winter Wonderland that had been granted us.

On Sunday the snow ended about noon and got out again to see scenes such as this from the nearby lake.
Once again cleaned off the car and shoveled the driveway. Planning to give the road crews another day to get the ice and snow off the highways and plan to do a little driving tomorrow. For today going to get in some tv viewing and relaxing.
I did measure at a point I felt was a good non windy location and by my best estimate got just under six inches of snow over the two days here.

Wecome to the Ohio Blog (January 6, 2019)

 It has been a very busy time here. Made the move from Richmond, Virginia to near Dayton, Ohio in mid-November, and it has been a wild time. Getting settled in has taken a while. Anyone who says moving is easy has never done it quite like this. Used the U-Pack service which was cool. That made the actual move quite easy. There was some snow here over the last few weeks, but many inches less then the big storm that hit Richmond over the late fall early winter when they got at or slightly over 10 inches (depending on what you read). Here for the end of 2018...they got 2.5 inches in total.

 First Christmas here was a great one. Got our tree up and even did some decorating outside the house. It was a very busy time here, but a lot of fun. Working to find my way around. Fortunately my wife Debbie is a resident and that helps a great deal.
On December 20, we went to the Carillon Historical Park where we saw this rather large Christmas tree draped around the bell tower. I have been there before during a previous visit and have enjoyed that a bunch.   
The Park has many historic items on display covering a wide range of Ohio history. This was my first visit during Christmas and it was really packed with a lot of beautiful lights and other Christmas items. I went with Debbie and some friends of ours and we all had a very wonderful time.
I look forward to going back again in the Spring!

One of the items on display at the Carillon Historic Park is the Wright Flyer III. This is considered to be the World First Practical Aircraft. Not the first to fly that being the Wright Flyer which is on display at the Smithsonian Air And Space Museum in Washington, DC. Like that plane though this is the real deal, not a replica.
At any case my plans for this blog are the same as with Richmond and Me. To share the sights and some of the highlights of this area and a few points beyond. Thank you for visiting my page!