#exploreohio

[keturahariel]

This is my favorite. 🚴🏾‍♀️🚴🏾‍♂️💜💙

[becomingabuckeye]

01-25 In Memory of Benjamin R. Hanby 30 S. Grove St., Westerville Date Visited: 04/11/20 Hanby House 160 W. Main St., Westerville Date Visited: 04/11/20 09-25 Benjamin R Hanby Gravesite Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville (West end of cemetery) Date Visited: 04/11/20 Born July 22, 1833 in Rushville, Benjamin Hanby attended Otterbein College in 1858. After graduating, Hanby was Minister of the United Brethren in Christ church, taught school, was principal of Seven Mile Academy in Seven Mile, Ohio, and operated a singing school in New Paris. He is most known for writing the Christmas song, “Up On the Housetop” in 1864. The Hanby house served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, where Benjamin and his father, Bishop William Hanby, helped slaves escape to freedom. One of those slaves, Joseph Selby, is believed to be the inspiration for Hanby’s famous anti-slavery song, “Darling Nellie Gray”. Benjamin Hanby died on March 16, 1867 in Chicago, IL and is buried in the Otterbein Cemetery in Westerville. Information gathered with help from the following sources: Remarkable Ohio www.remarkableohio.org Ohio History Connection @ohiohistory www.ohiohistory.org Historical Marker Database www.hmdb.org Touring Ohio @touringohio www.touringohio.com Ohio Exploration Society www.ohioexploration.com Ohio History Central www.ohiohistorycentral.org #Ohio #ohiohistory #ohiohistoricalmarker #westerville #westervilleohio #HanbyHouse #BenjaminHanby #Otterbein #OtterbeinCollege #exploreohio #remarkableohio #travelohio (at Westerville, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_L27WJJ3-f/?igshid=1ne4y5j2tmcn5

[eljayetc]

[geniuspilotphotographerwrit-blog]

Fallout Noir. . . . #agameoftones #bnwphotography #ig_underdogz #wizardsoftones #blackandwhitephoto #fallout #noir #sidewalk #igersdayton #igersohio #igersmidwest #neverstopexploring #urbex #urbanromantix #urbanart #urbanjungle #urbanphotography #mynikonlife #nikond300 #downtowndayton #daytonohio #ohio #exploreohio #justgoshoot (at Dayton, Ohio)

[alexisblogs]

I am so anxious for the next month already. September is going to be full of traveling and adventures, so stay tuned. #adventureawaits #offthetrail #travelmore #exploreohio #longhairdontcare #girlswhotravel #scenery #metroparks

[motiionpixels]

What's Down Below? . . . . . #naturephoto #artofvisuals #awesome_earthpix #landscape_captures #rsa_rural #natureaddict #nature_wizards #awesomeearth #naturediversity #ourplanetdaily #earth_deluxe #instanaturelover #nature_prefection #allnatureshots #gottalove_a_ #nature_brilliance #EarthVisuals #fantastic_earth #unlimitedplanet #ohioexplored #letsroamohio #igersohio #jj_ohio #exploreohio #one_ohio #canonphotos #canoneos #canonrebel #canonphotographer #hockinghillsstatepark #hockinghills #michiganphotographer #agameof10k #agameoftones #gameoftones #moodygrams #gramslayers (at Hocking Hills State Park)

[emdreams-blog1]

Everything about this season brings flashbacks. I see Rob smelling the lilacs, and I feel his arm around me, saying slowly and deliberately that I am a very good mother. I hear him tell me that he enjoys watching me interact with Hope. He smiles when he says this. I know in my heart he doesn’t have much longer with us. I know this, but I suppress it so deep beneath my conscience that I push forward, breathing in all that needs to be done. I want desperately to curl up and weep. To close my door and hug my pillow and soak my sheets with my tears. But I can’t. I can’t feel deeply what is happening to us. I can only survive this...survive this.  

Dear Spring, I want to fall in love with you again. I want to smell you the way I once did. I want to anticipate your rains and your everything new. But, I know that I will never again be able to see you the same way, to experience you the way that I’ve always known. 

In you, there is still beauty. It’s only that I ache with it. It comes with a higher price. 

I miss you Rob. Our crab apple tree is weeping with me. It decided to hold back it’s colors this Spring. 

[kparker10]

“Chill” spot