 What a great way to end 2011 |
 Disturbed Ospry |
 Ft. Myers Sunset |
 Up close to an alligator! |
 Sunset on Ft. Myers Beach |
 Allie |
 Hoying Family 12-23-2011 |
 A slug that has survived the Winter, so far |
 Lake Loramie Walk Bridge |
 Family Christmas Photo |
 St. Michael's Bell Ringers Christmas Concert |
 King of the Bird Feeder |
 Macey |
 Today's Delivery....Brenda is loving to shop on the iPad!! |
 Aftermath of heavy December rains |
 Listening for Santa's Bells |
 My photo in the 2012 Ohio Department of Natural Resorces Calendar |
 Birthday Candles |
 Blue-eyed Bride |
 Equipment test for a Saturday wedding |
 Decorations popping up around the house |
 Lone Junko in the snow covered branches |
 First snow of the season |
 Dazed Sparrow (after contact with a patio window) |
 Diving for a loose football |
 Frost damaged rose bud |
 The whole Despetorich Family |
 Cool weather walk |
 16 x 20 print of Copenhagen Canal |
 Indiana University Library |
 Camden Helping to Harvest Horseradish |
 Seger Siblings |
 Paeltz Boys Christmas Photo |
 Geo's Christmas Photoshoot |
 Bowling Grandkids |
 Backlit Chestnut Oak leaf |
 Phallales (Stink Horns) |
 Peeling apples by candle-light during power outage |
 Warm wet night for night crawlers |
 One of a few times when Jake was stopped |
 We're hoping for no West winds for a couple weeks |
 236th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps (Youngest and Oldest Marines in Attendance) |
 Cherry Cabinet Doors |
 Words to Live By |
 Nate's Senior Photo |
 Nolan's first deer is a good one!! |
 OSU Buckeyes Game |
 Chickadee |
 Sunrise |
 Holthaus Farm Sunrise |
 Fall Walk in the Woods |
 Yellow Rump Warbler detail |
 Kitchen Window View |
 Trick or Treat Indian |
 Ellie |
 Late Season Monarch |
 Last of the Fall Colors |
 Much nicer than a rake! |
 First Frost of the Fall |
 Black and Yellow Garden Spider, Argiope aurantia |
 Enough rain for a while (2.6", 6.6cm) |
 Last Dianthus bloom of the year? |
 Soggy Fall Day |
 Barhorst Family |
 Racing in the Campground |
 Group Photo at Cedar Falls |
 Evening Walk at Hueston Woods Campground |
 Maple Leaves |
 Curious Eastern Garter Snake |
 Spooky Fall Moom |
 Fall Tilling |
 Geo and his Great Grandparents |
 Geo Loves Leaves |
 Geo ready for bed |
 iPad II & iPod, in remembrance of Steve |
 Beautiful Fall Evening on Lake Loramie |
 Pink Rose |
 Nolan |
 Blue Eyes |
 The Despo's |
 Paeltz Family at Sandy's induction into the ONU Athletic Hall of Fame |
 Impatiens blooms |
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 Black-Eyed Susan Bud |
 Ellie enjoying her ride |
 Fort Loramie German Heritage Committee, 2011 |
 Time to Celebrate |
 Cherry Tomatoes at ISO 3200 |
 Shelf support holes |
 Raindrops on Leaf |
 Nuthatch |
 Ellie and Emily |
 Mountain Man encampment at Lake Loramie Fall Festival |
 Grace at the Lake Loramie Fall Festival |
 Campground Cruising |
 Driveway Prep |
 Pollen Competition |
 Tycho crater on the full moon |
 1400 horse power and nowhere to go |
 100+ mph and LOUD! |
 One time a year on one ski for one minute. |
 Sunset on Lake Cumberland |
 All smiles after the 1 mile "Fun Run" |
 Proud of his mud |
 Geo is growing up fast |
 Golden morning light on the beach |
 Colorful star tracks in the Milky Way |
 Spider with damselfly dinner (hanging by a thread in front of a white door) |
 Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs |
 Curious Black Rat Snake |
 Young Cantaloupe |
 Camden loses his training wheels! |
 "What you looking at?" Praying Mantis |
 3rd Quarter Leg Cramps |
 Gabby |
 Small Brown Cricket |
 Earthquake Damage ;-) |
 Hummingbird looking for some food |
 White Spider with dinner - Misumena Vatia |
 Black-Eyed Pea |
 One for Vern |
 After the Rain |
 Marion Local Football Seniors 2011 |
 Robber Fly - red-footed cannibal fly, Promachus Hinei |
 Japanese Beetle |
 Cherry Crown Molding |
 Indiana University, West Entrance |
 Highest Point in Indiana |
 Best game ever |
 Opening Bloom |
 Hardened Sap on a Plum Tree |
 Mass of Spider Webs |
 Small Spider underside |
 Kayaking at the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Scioto River |
 Locus Carcus |
 The perfect vegtable! |
 Rose Bud |
 Busy day at the Hummingbird Feeder |
 Queen Anns Lace about to open |
 Micrathena Gracilis |
 Proud Grandparents |
 Hoying Family Vacation at Lake Loramie |
 Surf & Turf Competition |
 Pontoon cruise on Lake Loramie |
 Green Beetles (Carabus Aurtus) on Cone Flower |
 Nate |
 Broad-bodied Chaser (a dragonfly) Libellula depressa (Male). |
 Morning Dove |
 Red Admiral butterlfy - (Vanessa Atalanta) |
 Posing for the camera |
 Fresh cabbage from the garden |
 Busy Bee |
 Bringing Home Dinner |
 Moon Shot |
 Two-fisting popcycles at Grandmas |
 Fun under the sprinkler |
 Riding along a corn field |
 2 day old Wrens (heads are about 1/4" wide (5mm)) |
 Happy Geo |
 Eight-Spotted Forrester Moth (Alypia octomaculata) on Coneflower |
 Hen & Chick blooms |
 Nice evening for kayaking on Lake Loramie |
 Darius Rucker (Hootie of Hootie and the Blowfish) at Country Concert 2011 |
 Carrie Underwood at Country Concert 2011 |
 Spotted touch-me-not (about 1" (25mm)) |
 Big Eyes |
 Tiny pollen blooms on a Cone Flower |
 Fishing on Grand Lake |
 Geo Despetorich's Baptism |
 Day Lily Macro |
 Fort Loramie Liberty Days |
 A Spider kills a Damselfly caught in it's web |
 Callie 1996-2011 |
 Wide angle view at Yucca Blooms |
 Nolan throwing a curve ball |
 Brenda loving her tube ride |
 Cigarette Boats racing on Lake Cumberland, Kentucky |
 Cousins |
 Geo checking out Grandpa's Camera |
 Snap Dragons |
 Airport Bums |
 Return to Nyhavn Canal on our last day in Denmark |
 St. Maria Catholic Church in Oythe, Germany |
 Hoying cemetery plot in Lohne, Germany |
 Heidelberg Castle Entrance |
 View over Berchtesgaden, Germany |
 The Eagle's Nest - Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps at Berchtesgaden |
 The Danbue River in Regensburg, Germany, The bridge was built in 1135 |
 Self-portrait at the Brandonburg Gate in Berlin |
 Brenda in front of the Siegessaeule (Victory Column), which stands in the Tiergarten, within sight of the Brandenburg Gate |
 Brian & Signa Seger, shortly after being married at St. Albans Church, Copenhagen, Denmark |
 Windy day along the Baltic Sea |
 Skagen, Denmark - Northernmost tip of Denmark, where the North Sea and the Baltic Sea meet |
 Proud Fisherman with a Blue Lobster from the Baltic Sea |
 Nyhavn Canal |
 Seatback View |
 Sunrise on the farm |
 Pink Promise Rose |
 Geo makes his first trip to Greator's Ice Cream |
 The Start of Rose Season |
 Ellie at 2nd Base |
 Memorial Day Sunset on Lake Loramie |
 Tons-Of-Fun (winning boat in the 2011 Cancer Crusaders Poker Run) |
 Quiet Night on Grand Lake |
 Hungry Robin Chick |
 Geo is Three Weeks Old |
 Marbles from Heaven |
 Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird |
 Wild Hair-Do on this Robin |
 We caught a Turtle!! |
 Bedtime for Camden |
 Fisherman on Lake Loramie |
 Hovering Bumble Bee |
 New White Pine Growth |
 A Father's Love |
 Iris Bloom, blowing in the wind |
 And now there are Five |
 Future Robins |
 Red & Green |
 Columbine Collage (all blooms are on the same plant) |
 Wet Bloom |
 First Columbine of the Season |
 Geo and his Second Mother on Mothers Day |
 George Walter Despetorich ( Geo ) at 10 hours old |
 Sunshine and Storm Clouds at Lake Loramie |
 Female Rose-Breasted Grosbeak |
 White-Crowned Sparrow |
 Lilac blooms in the evening light |
 Male Goldfinch |
 Ellie's First Communion |
 Slinging mud at Eldora Speedway |
 Tulip with Plum Tree Background |
 First Ruhbarb of the year |
 Joey & Marilauren visit Ohio |
 Yellow Trout Lily |
 Boat-tailed Grackle |
 Gabby loves Peeps! |
 Vern & Betty's (Mom & Dad's) 64th Wedding Anniversary |
 White Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis alba |
 Wild Violet |
 Holthaus Grandkids 04-20-2011 |
 Spring Tulip |
 Daffodil Precocious |
 Camden |
 Grace's 1st birthday cake! |
 Nuthatch striking a pose |
 Coloring Eggs |
 Hyacinth Close-up |
 Refinished John Deere 318 |
 36th Aniversary Couple |
 Buzzard (Turkey Vulture) enjoying the sunshine |
 American Coot Takeoff |
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 Painted Turtle |
 Tiny Early Springtime Blooms |
 Business End of a Squirrel |
 Spring Flowers! |
 Sunday Sunrise |
 Fuel tank repair |
 Nesting Goose |
 Frosty Morning Fence |
 Goldfinch getting its summer colors, even with the snow flying |
 Valve job and new rings for the Onan |
 Engine project |
 Grace starting to walk |
 Geese in the evening light |
 Clearing skies at Sunset |
 Light snow on the deck |
 Hail on the Deck |
 Baby Gift |
 Rose sprouts |
 Lilac Bush welcomes the arrival of Spring |
 Perigee Moon |
 Iris popping up! |
 Janel heads in for two points |
 Sendoff of the Loramie Girls to Columbus (Final 4!!) |
 Mutant Strawberry |
 Cemetery Sunset |
 Lake Loramie water levels return to normal |
 Loramie's Army doing battle for the Lady Redskins |
 Farm Sunset in Shelby County |
 Janel Playing Above The Crowd |
 Sea Shell Detail |
 First Sign of Spring!!!!!! |
 Tracking down an engine misfire |
 Ready for a Swim |
 Rainy Day at Deer Creek State Park |
 Birthday Boy |
 Nuthatch |
 Cooper's Hawk watching the bird feeder |
 Bridge to Nowhere |
 Flooded campground at Lake Loramie |
 Melting snow, rain and a leaf |
 4 1/2 hour detour |
 Great Blue Heron at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge |
 Lift Off of the Space Shuttle Discovery! STS-133 |
 Less than a day left! |
 Dining in Denver Airport |
 Beautiful Day at Vail |
 Gusty Day at Keystone |
 Kitchen Window View |
 Breckenridge View |
 Enjoying the new snow at 12,000' |
 Sunrise hitting the tops of the clouds |
 Sunrise on the Orr-Statler Block building (Plaza Hotel, Piqua Hotel, Piqua Library) |
 Country Sunrise |
 Angry Birds expert at 18 months |
 Couisins & Buddies |
 Busting up the Ice |
 Robin and Doves trying to find some warmth at -8 degrees |
 Winter roads in Shelby County |
 Windy day at the bird feeder |
 Shelby County Courthouse |
 The Evil Stare |
 What So Proudly We Hailed.... |
 Grace |
 Port Jefferson Tax |
 Slick Roads |
 Icy Driveway |
 An so the Storm Begins |
 Icicles |
 Lake Loramie Cabins (closed for the winter) |
 Red Breasted Nuthatch on the Suet Feeder |
 Nolan at Mad River |
 Ice Thorns |
 Mason Topples the Tower |
 Perched and Incoming Cardinals |
 Begonia Bloom (indoor house plant) |
 New Bar Stools |
 Cold Backyard View |
 Blue Chairs |
 Tumblin' Monkeys |
 Backyard Visitor ( Opposum ) |
 Holthaus Girls |
 Cold Winter Morning, but at least the sun is out |
 Late Afternoon at Grand Lake |
 Junco on the Ivy |
 Lobster trap markers collecting snow |
 Cabinet Door Macro |
 Loramie Creek Walk |
 Latest Craigslist Purchase |
 Nolan listening to the coach |
 Gabby at 3 months |
 Ice Crystals on an Ivy Leaf |
 Female Cardinal |
 Clear Winter Day |
 Cabinet door parts |
 Grace trying to eat an orange |
 Brenda relaxing |
 It's hard to explain! |