The View from Old Man Cave

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The view from Old Man Cave in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park. Betsy and I have been there several times, enjoying the canyon, the waterfalls and the hikes. We don’t do mcc hiking anymore, but we can still visit those scenes with ur photos.

A Winter Waterfall

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Several years ago Betsy and I celebrated my birthday by going to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. There was a great deal of ice and snow around, which, while making getting around ‘interesting’, provided some beautiful scenes.

I got a picture of an icy Lower Falls on that trip, part of which is the header for this month. I got this full image by using software to convert the photo into a painting.

Tree roots

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I got a photo of these exposed tree roots while visiting Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio several years ago. I tweaked the photo with software to make it look a little more ‘artsy’.

 

 

Cox Bridge

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Several years ago, while driving through southern Ohio on our way home, Betsy and I happened across Cox Bridge, a restored covered bridge. The bridge was in use until 1992, and then restored in 2004.

I thought using Photoshop to make the image more like a painting was fitting for this subject.

Ice at Old Man’s Cave

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Betsy and I went to Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park in early March. One of the main attractions there is Old Man’s Cave, which we’ve visited before. This time the trail down into the gorge was covered with ice, which made it interesting to get down to the floor of the cave. This sketch is based on a photo I took of a column of ice on the bottom of the gorge.

Ohio Rest Area

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Last month Betsy and I drove up to Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio to meet with our friends Patti and Neal.  On the way up we stopped at a rest area in Ohio where we found this whimsical sculpture and some beautiful autumn color.

The picture on which this drawing was based is shown below.

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