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<\/a>\nI did not plant one sunflower seed and yet we have sunflowers growing all over. \u00a0The birds did such a good job of sowing the seeds this year and we see Goldfinches and Cardinals munching on the seeds and probably sowing more for next year.
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9<\/a>\nThe Shasta Daisy we just planted this year did very well. \u00a0This will multiply. \u00a0My favorite kind of plant, unless it\u2019s a weed.
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<\/a>\nThis picture was taken through as screen, but this is my little kitchen garden. \u00a0It has become lush and full of flowers. \u00a0I hardly do any weeding anymore, but the plants are so close together there is very little room for weeds.<\/p>\n
The wonderful,Ohio River. \u00a0Just think of the ships and Indians and settlers that came down this river. \u00a0Now we see barges and pleasure boats on it. \u00a0Once a year there is a tall ships weekend where boats with sails come up the river to Cincinnati. I have always wanted to see them on the water. Beautiful old houses are abundant along the river. \u00a0At one time people made their livings off the river and some became very prosperous. Coming to Cincinnati and we thought traffic would be bad, but it was faster and easier to go around Cincinnati than through our town! \u00a0We must have hit it just right. \u00a0No rush hour or people going to a ballgame. Can you feel it? \u00a0 The tiniest little breeze that has Autumn in it? \u00a0 The hazy days of Summer slowly, but surely easing into the golden days of Autumn? \u00a0I can feel it even when the days are in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s I can tell that Summer is taking its last few breaths. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13969"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13987,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13969\/revisions\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nOne of my top five favorite flowers, the Geranium. \u00a0It never disappoints and takes very little care. I have several blooming. This one goes back into \u00a0the greenhouse when cold weather comes.
\nDavid took the month of July off and we did a road trip along the Ohio River through little River towns. I love River towns. \u00a0I think I would have been very happy living in one. \u00a0Of course Madison, Indiana is one of my favorites. \u00a0It is a tourist town for sure, but still has its little town qualities. Years ago I use to go down there just to go to a certain quilt shop to buy fabric because she carried the reproduction fabrics I so loved. She has since closed which made me sad.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nIn one town there is this tall measuring platform that tells how far up the river rose in certain years.
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\nNot sure I would have wanted to be near the river in 1937 when it rose 81 feet! \u00a0Must have been an epic flood.
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\nNow we know where the house is that is in the song. \u00a0Mothers, tell your children!
\nWe saw President Grant\u2019s childhood home.
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\nWe didn\u2019t go in this \u00a0time as we were there several, years ago, but I have a story about that time. \u00a0David and I wanted to tour the house, but we were on a time budget as we had to be somewhere else so we went inside and saw another tour group that was being led around so we thought we would wait. \u00a0Meanwhile we were in this room where they had signs up, \u201cdo not take pictures.\u201d \u00a0We waited and waited for someone to come talk to us, but they never did and rebel that I am, I started taking pictures of everything in the room. Then David and I rushed out giggling like we had robbed a bank and got into our car and sped away.
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\nit is kind of neat, though, to have a Yankee general and former president being born in my state.
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\nEvery little town is unique. \u00a0This was painted on a building in one town.
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\nMurals are very popular. \u00a0These two were so pretty.
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\nThere was this army related train set up in one town.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nAnd some lived in log cabins.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nNot a good picture, but it is the Cincinnati Red\u2019s ballpark. \u00a0I have been to games there. \u00a0I remember when Pete Rose and Johnny Bench played for the big red machine. That was an awesome team that year. \u00a0Pete Rose should have been put in the Baseball Hall of Fame. \u00a0He was treated very badly in my humble opinion.
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\nDriving down the highway we suddenly noticed wildflowers growing all along the side of the road. For miles.
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\nIt was so pretty. \u00a0Someone did a lot of work to get this to be so pretty and wonderful. Someone who loves wildflowers.
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\nSaw this in one town honoring the Viet Nam vets. \u00a0Many vets were treated terribly after that war. Not sure why, but nasty people do nasty things and it\u2019s never justified or good. \u00a0Young men sent to a war they were not allowed to win and ostracized afterward. \u00a0History will not look well on those who were hateful to those men. \u00a0Being a military wife I feel for those men. \u00a0I have a story about me confronting a man at a dinner party where he was badmouthing the National Guard \u00a0in which my husband was a member, but I will save that for another day.
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\nChange of subject, but Hoosiers like to decorate differently than a lot of people do. Saw this cow\u2019s head on someone\u2019s barn.
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\nAnd the American flag flies proudly. \u00a0I heard that one of those women on the show, The View, which I never watch, said \u00a0seeing a lot of American flags makes her feel afraid. \u00a0Let me tell you, if our flag frightens you, maybe you need to find a new country to live in because that flag has flown over the best country this world has ever seen and millions of us are ready to fight for it again should we have to.
\nSo I will leave you with my opinion and you can take it or leave it, but on our country\u2019s 250th \u00a0birthday I will say I am proud to be an American. Be proud of your country wherever you live and make it the best country you can. We all have faults, in every one, but no one and no country is perfect. Not sure I would \u00a0want mine to be! Have a great rest of your Summer or Winter wherever you are reading this all over the world. Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"