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We went to a near by amusement park for the July 4th weekend. Even though it was raining they had a decent turnout and we enjoyed alot going on the rides, playing with water, watching the parades and finally the fireworks. I tried capturing many pics, but I had no tripod and was too tired by then (it was almost 11 when these things went off), So only a few of them came out with any clarity, How do you like this one?

Also see the other ones on flickr:

During our recent visit to NY I have been to the famous Brooklyn Bridge and I clicked photos till my fingers itched. Here are some of them, let me know if you have any review comments

I couldnt carry my tripod though, some of the pics became real blurry at original resolution.

We are going to big apple on this weekend, its going to be a really long drive, almost 1000 miles both ways put together, I will see if I can post something while resting, but don’t hope to see anything here for the next 3 days. You have an excellent weekend, drive carefully - more so if you are going anywhere east, stop your car and run towards the closest rest area if you see a compact car (goddamn you rental car company for not telling what car I will be driving) that looks like its chased by grawp. If you are not the kind who uses their right leg and left hand during the weekends, then I am happy for you, do something fun (oh, I am sure you will, afterall you are reading Pointy Haired Dilbert ), be merry, just watch out if your house is anywhere east. Tada!

PS: photo from net_efekt

We went to Hocking hills state park during the weekend, hiked a few miles, had tons of fun watching waterfalls, caves, cliffs, rare plants and infinite greenery. The trip has been thoroughly grinding with almost every place looking spectacular and lengthy. We couldn’t really visit all the attractions as both of us were feeling totally tired after what felt like 10 miles of hiking.

I had great time testing our new
Nikon D40 though, some of the shots came really well, at least thats what I thought. Share your feedback so that I can become a better clicker.

Spotted this while hiking, any idea what they call this?

flowers and a bee

Sharp and a wood block

Happy week ahead!

A bunch of us went to Ashtabula county and Put-in-bay island over the weekend; beautiful lake Erie beach locations on the northern side of Ohio.

We started off from Columbus on Saturday early morning, the weather wasn’t perfect as it started raining. After nearly slipping out of the ramp, I managed to get the car on to highway and we drove for nearly an hour before halting at Bellville for some breakfast. The weather got better by then, but there was some drizzle. The tulips near McDonald’s looked beautiful too.

We couldn’t help but notice that fuel prices have almost reached sky, well thankfully we weren’t stopping for a refill.

We reached Geneva on the lake by noon. A beach side village with population of 6500. Since we reached there 2-3 weeks earlier than the holiday season, the village looked even more empty with hardly anyone on the roads. We checked in to our cottage and quickly left to see the scenic Geneva state park on the lake Erie shore. The beach was bright and windy, and the waters were cold.

We left the state park after a couple of hours to eat something. We started off to visit one of the vineyards in Ashtabula county. We stopped at this beautiful looking wine tasting room and spent sometime enjoying the bright sun light and country side.

We set out to visit the famous covered bridges of Ashtabula county later. There are about 16 of these historical bridges. We could manage to see 3 of them as we kept loosing our way across the county constantly bumping into the same vineyard.

We took a pit stop near the Mechanicsville road bridge at Grand River Manor bar which apparently is famous for good food, cold beer and lousy service.

As we were leaving I captured these,

Later at night we played dumb-charades while gulping the wine we got from the winery. We crashed late into night and had a quick sleep before hitting the road next day, in search of something else to do.

After roaming to few places (mainly Cedar Point, which was closed for winter) we reached to Putin bay island. This is a 1-2 mile sized island on the lake Erie famous for its churches, laid back living style. We rented a golf cart there and roamed around the island. This gave the unique opportunity to experiment some of the finer aspects of my driving - namely accelerating while braking on turn and driving without seat belts.

We stopped at Perry peace memorial at 3 pm.

The island looked picturesque with everything looking green.

We left the island around 6 to catch the last ferry back to mainland,

Thanks to Google maps, on our way back we took a really scenic route for almost 40 miles on state roads[via OH13, CR77, OH 545, OH 603]. The road was really beautiful with bridges, tall trees and greenery on both sides. Before we could realize were back in Columbus and it was still raining when we returned home.

We have been to Potbelly sandwich works in Washington for lunch and the restaurant instantly became my favorite. Its the kind of place with a soul of its own, you can feel the passion the shop people have shown in every aspect. Of course the food was excellent, I had a chicken salad sandwich, veg garden soup and tons of pleasure.

I couldnt help but awe at this extremely well done subliminal advertising near the soup counter, see it for yourself

Dont get it yet, see this

Few of us have driven down to Washington DC for the last weekend. We have seen few museums, couple of nice dinner places / pubs and had tons of fun. I will write a detailed post today evening. See the below teaser pic in the meanwhile