Elevation of York Township, OH, USA

Before the Wreck

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Winters Last Stand

Vanished View

I can only assume some settling has occurred overtime

tweaked

Drainpipe pretty area.

Spring 2020 skunk cabbage.

Finally a daylight view of 6920

Here in late April was Ai Creek with its abundance of coarse woody debris.

HENSLOW'S SPARROW

Solitary

Swan Creek slides through its loamy alluvium, inexorably drawn toward Lake Erie, toward death.

We have a nice view down into the floodplain of Ai Creek, from here atop this modest rise.

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Wabash Cannonball Trail near Wauseon, Ohio

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Out of Place (Again)

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Getting back in the swing of things

The floodplain of Swan Creek was an ideal spread for these downed trees this spring day.

Here was the brownish-green or greenish-brown or olive green water of Swan Creek, with deposits of some kind of milky white substance near its banks.

In suburban Toledo we had Ai Creek, famous for its two-letter vowel-vowel name, and for its extraordinary beauty.

Swan Creek pushes itself through sand, which was deposited along the edges of a proglacial lacustrine predecessor of Lake Erie at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. April sun occurs.

Long looong views of trails in parks in suburban Toledo, through woodlands that grow on/in sandy soils.

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Colorful Ending

Everybody knows Ai Creek is pretty! Nobody can explain the weird and baffling name "Ai Creek."

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Here was Swan Creek, adhering closely to my personal idealizations of creeks in Ohio.

Before we leave a Approach comes into view

Good view of a bad area of Ai Creek in a municipal park. The creek's name is Ai Creek.

At a lamppost was a display of pumpkins, straw, and cornstalks, in view of a railroad crossing.

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Have yourself an oblique view of the Southern Breeze beauty salon.

A patch of reddish-brown leaves is shown among a patch of early-November woods.

The look of November 2nd in northwestern Ohio. A patch of woods with a field beyond.

Sticks area November.

A building-wide awning sported an adorable gable, to indicate the entrance to a business.

country view.

A fine view of Bad Creek was afforded by a bridge on a country road in Fulton County, Ohio, one day in early November.

Big blank gray.

This was a vertical "hair garden" of horizontally "windblown flowing hair" of wall plants in the fall.

5,893 years on, as viewed from 6,024 years on.

Stone veneer '76.

IORY LNLX - Liberty Center, Ohio