Winter Thoughts

By fromskilledhands ( January 22, 2012 at 12:21 am) · Filed under Cuyahoga Valley

After the flurry of activities that surrounded the holidays, we took a couple of much needed days off. It’s quiet in the Village of Peninsula, population 602. Perhaps this is due, in part, to the incessant rain we’ve had. This has, thus far, been the winter of mud.We have been working to develop new glazes, and we have both been working on new designs and new pieces. There are so many things we want to explore, and winter is a good time to do that.

The Cuyahoga Valley is a beautiful place in any season. If you have the opportunity, plan a visit to our amazing Valley. You can Explore Peninsula, visit the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and ride the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.

Cheese board: 19″ x 8.5″. Tiles by Debra Bures; wood by Dave Kish. Available for sale. Contact the Gallery for information.

Did you know that the crooked river called Cuyahoga has had other names? Visit here to read about it.

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As always, feel free to leave me a comment, or a stone (o), to let me know that you’ve stopped by. Come by tomorrow to see who won Monday’s drawing.

Nuthatches, woodpeckers, juncos, tufted titmice, chickadees, finches and brilliant red cardinals are visiting the feeders, singing the songs that suggest that Spring is on it’s way.

My Word-A-Day calendar has brought pages of words to me, some new, others, old friends. Here’s a sampling:

**Conventicle: a noun. 1. An assembly of an irregular or unlawful character. 2. an assembly for religious worship, especially a meeting for worship not sanctioned by law. 3. a meetinghouse

**Fulgent: an adjective. Dazzingly bright: radiant.

**Parry: a verb. 1. To ward off a weapon or blow. 2. to evade especially by an adroit answer.

**Infix: a noun. A derivational or inflectional affix appearing in the body of a word

**Clepe: a verb. To name or call

**Rectitudinous: an adjective. 1. Characterized by straightness or moral integrity. 2. piously self-righteous.

**Harbinger: a noun. 1. A person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another, herald. 2. anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign; 3. a person sent in advance of troops, a royal train etc., to provide secure lodgings or other accommodations.

As always, feel free to leave me a comment, or a stone (o), to let me know you’ve stopped by.

For more looks at the color blue, please visit Jodi’s weekly color challenge at the Women’s Colony.

Jodi, over at the Women’s Colony/Sanctuary, has challenged bloggers to post photos that show the color orange. I looked around my town, the Village of Peninsula, in the beautiful Cuyahoga Valley, and saw the color all over the place. Here is a snippet:

Check back on Wednesday. My Wordless Wednesday post will be sponsored by the color orange.

My Town Monday’s current host is Clair Dickson. Wander over to the MTM site for links to the posts of other MTM Marauders.

It has been quite a while since I have shared the MTM experience. Life has presented our family with multiple challenges including 3 deaths and the hospitalization of a child. I have learned a lot about community, and have had my feeling that we all live in the same town reinforced over and over.

Visit the My Town Monday website, for a look at other places on this fine planet.

COMING SOON: Cups of Kindness

Signs of the python are all around: Larry has been getting his python ready for tomorrow’s parade; the Peninsula Art Academy’s artful python has emerged from it’s winter resting place. Our python has been enjoying being outside.

We are getting ready for the python scavenger hunt in the Gallery. If you can find them all, you win one! Lots of activities are planned in the Village tomorrow. Slither on over here to see.

And don’t forget to send me your mug shot. You could win one of our favorite mugs.

The Village of Peninsula, Ohio, population 601, will once again celebrate the saga of the Peninsula Python, the serpent whose escape, disappearance, and subsequent sightings terrified the people in the Valley during the summer of 1944.

Word War II was going on, and many of the young men from the Valley were deployed overseas. When the story of the Python was picked up by the wire services and Stars and Stripes, soldiers stationed overseas sent letters to the Village. Letters from places people had never heard of.

While the story of the python frightened people in the Valley, it was not nearly as scary as the horrors of war.

The mayor deputized a posse to try to capture the renegade reptile. Although they men of the posse followed up on every lead, they were unable to find the snake.

photo courtesy Your Community News

You can also wander down the trail to Deep Lock Quarry, part of the MetroParks, serving Summit County. Celebrate Hobo Days with food, stories and the crowning of the Hobo King and Queen.

If you’d like a chance to be part of our modern Peninsula Python Posse, post a comment. Last week’s Posse winner was Barbara Martin. She joins fellow posse members, Amy, Terrie , Sam, Travis, Barrie, and Eryl.

My Town Monday is now hosted by Clair Dickson here. You will find links to other MTM posts all over this fine planet. Travis Erwin is the originator of MTM. Go visit him and say hello. He’s a very nice guy.

Cups of Kindness, a show and sale to benefit the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, has raised enough money to purchase around 27,000 meals—that’s almost 45 meals for the 600 and some folks who live in the Village of Peninsula, Ohio.

Over 70 artists donated pieces of art, 160 pieces in all. All proceeds from the sale of the artwork has benefited the hungry in the 8 Ohio counties that the Foodbank serves. The show opened in early December of 2008, and continues.

Cups of Kindness: Friends and neighbors helping each other.

The crooked river called Cuyahoga is an integral part of the Cuyahoga Valley and the Village of Peninsula. Artists have tried to capture it’s beauty in a multitude of media. Painters, photographers and artists with sketch pads are regular sights in this Valley.

For more information on the Plein Aire competition, visit here.

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