posted on 3rd May 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 17.  Location: Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH.

Yet more tulips at the Spring Flower Festival.  They were incredible.  All sorts of colors and shapes.  Once they are done blooming, they’ll dig out the bulbs for next year and plant the annual beds.

posted on 3rd May 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 17.  Location: Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH

More tulips at the Spring Flower Festival.

posted on 3rd May 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, Week 17.  Location: Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH

Tulips at the Spring Flower Festival

posted on 3rd May 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 17.  Location: Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH

This is the Kingwood Center, a former mansion and 47 acres of estate gardens that was open to the public in 1953.  It is open year-round and free to the public.  This day they were having a Spring Flower Festival and the tulips were amazing.  The mansion is in the background.

posted on 5th April 2009 by hikergirl

Hikergirl, week 13.  Location: hardware store in Ontario, OH

Need a clamp?

posted on 5th April 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 13.  Location:  hardware store in Ontario, OH

Now, I can’t even begin to imagine what kind of hole you could make with these drill bits.  No amount of spackling compound could fix that!

posted on 5th April 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 13.  Location:  Hardware store in Ontario, OH

It seems most of my pictures are taken while shopping.  I’ve been house hunting and prowling the stores for things I may need (or just plain want) is part of that.  I’ve always loved hardware stores.  Even though I wouldn’t have a reason to have all the different tools, just the possibilities they afford, make them fascinating to me.  That said, I do own a cordless drill (not as expensive as those) and I think they’re a handy thing to have.

posted on 22nd March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 11.  Location: Shelby, OH

There were swings and two slides near the water.  All of which had these bright colors.

posted on 22nd March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 11.  Location: Shelby, OH

The park in Shelby.  This is where the water spills over from one side to cover the road.

posted on 22nd March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 11.  Location: Shelby, OH

The park in Shelby.  This is the other side of the park.  The creek actually crosses the road to get in the park and you can see the small bridge in the distance.

posted on 22nd March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 11.  Location: Shelby, OH

I was out driving around and ended up in Shelby, which is about 10 miles north of where I live.  This is a little park in town.  There’s a small creek, a covered area for picnic tables and some playground equipment is off in the distance.

Of course, I forgot to bring my regular camera so these are taken with my cell phone camera.

posted on 17th March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, week 10 - Location: Mansfield, OH

The 1920 house - the kitchen had been updated and there was a breakfast room off of it with lots of windows.  The owner had this beautiful cabinet along the wall.

Like I said, a gorgeous house.  It had 3 bedrooms upstairs and this gorgeous big, old bathroom that didn’t need a thing done to it.  There was another sunny, smaller room that the owner had set up as an office.  If only old houses didn’t have problems.

Edit:  If you’re interested in knowing, the house was listed for $109,900.

posted on 17th March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, Week 10 - Location: Mansfield, OH

The living room in the 1920 house with two sun rooms off of the room.  I went to open the door on the left and a cat appeared out of nowhere.  He had been put in there so he wouldn’t escape (and I shut the door before he could).

posted on 17th March 2009 by hikergirl

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Hikergirl, Week 10:  Mansfield, OH -

My Dad was here this weekend and we looked at some open houses on Sunday.  I plan on buying something this summer and I wanted to get an idea of what was in Mansfield.

This is a 1920 house and it was gorgeous inside.  It had been fixed up and had all of the fantastic period touches, cool rooms and had a lot of space.  I doubt I’d buy it as I don’t want all of the potential headaches that go with owning an old house.

As you can see, it was sunny (and warm!) that day.

posted on 8th March 2009 by hikergirl

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hikergirl, week 9 - Location: Omnisource Corporation in Mansfield, OH

Scrap metal