My Humongous Park & Lovely Blog Award

Well here I am at the center of my humongous, herculean, colossal, prodigious, stupendous big big park. Five miles from my home. The hill you see in the background is the state of Kentucky.

Because my park sits on a steep hillside over the river, it almost always has a good enough breeze to fly a kite. From the overlook you can see Moscow, Ohio up river and down river to Cincinnati.

You ask how big is my park, well with just over 1004 acres, this park has everything you can think of to keep me entertained. My big park is Woodland Mound Park. Outlining the majority of the park's land is a 1.2 mile multi-use paved trail. Because it has dual lanes, bikers, rollerbladers, runners, and walkers can co-exist at their respective pace without interruption. Especially unique are three wooded hiking trails. One specific trail, called Parcours, has 18 workout stations focusing on each muscle group throughout its nine-tenths mile course. The remaining trails are eight-tenths and six-tenths of a mile.

Well look at these steps back in the deep woods. Does this step picture give you a hint as to who I am passing the award on to?  The George and Tess Adventures. They take me to places I will never see. Their mom takes the best pictures, she makes her countryside come alive.  And I, Sweet William The Scot, think you have a very lovely lovely blog.  The award is the one with the pink cup on my sidebar.  I have a cup of Earl Grey when I view your blog.
Now I have to thank Freddie, Gloria and their Mom for giving us the award. Basset Momma from Ontario, Canada she has a delightful blog and Freddie is always up to something.

                                         Thanks for being a friend
                             Traveling down the road and back again
                          Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.
                                                    Signing Off
                                         Sweet William The Scot
             

Hyde Park Square & Very Inspiring Blogger Award

Hyde Park Square ~ a dog friendly neighborhood.  Hyde Park is an eclectic neighborhood in eastern Cincinnati.

Oh me, Oh my, I have been bad about passing on the Awards I have been given. So today I am doing the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.   To the top right of my picture.

When I get an award I feel a sense of pride and I don't pass them on lightly.

Who inspires us, Kim from Life at Golden Pines. Her heart for dogs in need is boundless. One of the dogs she took in recently died, Sam. Kim had Sam I believe because his owner had cancer and could no longer care for him. Kim posted when Sam died that his owner had recently passed also. I like to think Sam knew and let his body release to the bridge so he could be with his owner.

A person who can take in dogs in need, and give, knowing you will not have much time with them is an inspiration to us. So I am only naming Life at Golden Pines. And I most certainly don't expect Kim to follow the rules of this award.  

I came across this Dog Will and I thought how appropriate for this post.

Before humans die they write their Last Will and Testament give the homes and all they have, to those they leave behind.

If, with my paws, I could do the same, this is what I'd ask...

To the poor and lonely stray I'd give:

~ My happy home

~ My bowl and cozy bed, soft pillow and all my toys.

~ The lap, which I loved so much.

~ The hand that stroked my fur & and the sweet voice which spoke my name.

I'd will to the sad, scared shelter dog, the place I had in my

human's loving heart, of which there seemed no bounds.

So, when I die, please do not say, "I will never have a pet again,

for the loss and pain, is more than I can stand,"

Instead, go find an unloved dog, one whose life has

held no joy or hope and give MY place to HIM.

This is the only thing I can give....

The love I left behind

Thank you Susie and Sidebite for nominating me. You two have been the bestest friends a scot could want.

I am suppose to share seven things about myself.

Well it is just Lee and I and when we are lonely we love to look at other blogs.

I, Sweet William The Scot, was inbred terribly.

I have deformed front legs that go out 80 degrees at the ankles.

I love almost every person I come into contact with.

I hate puppy mills!

I love the camera and most of my pictures are taken in two shots.

I love popcorn.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Singing For My Dinner

Well our community, Mt. Washington, has a community picnic every year. I am taking my watermelon and Lee is packing other food to share.

Our community picnic is held here. A look inside first.

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Can you guess what I am inside of?

It sits at the pinnacle of our hill. It was built between 1933 and 1936.  No I am not climbing to the top!  It holds over three millions gallons of water.  Enough for a bath, ya think!

It is a noted Art Deco landmark.  It is decorated top-to-bottom with lights every Christmas.  We have our own giant candle as a beacon for Santa Claus.  One year when we had a terrible winter storm the bulbs which are hard plastic over light bulbs blew off and pelted our home!




                       The Mt. Washington Water Tower.

Okie dokie I have to sing for my dinner.  Here I am with one of my friends performing.
Turn down the speakers you are blasting my ear drums!!!! Lee is always singing so I know the words to just about every song or I can fake, fabricate, concoct, devise, contrive the words if I don't know them.

I have been know to demolish a song or two!

Here I am singing Country Roads

I hear her voice, in the morning hour she calls me

Sweet William time for breakfast, Arrooooo

The radio reminds me of my home far away

We have it on everyday, Arrooooooooo

Well everyone loved my singing and I got my picnic dinner.  Hope you liked seeing my summer picnic.

Oh, I allowed Lee to have the chocolate off of my ice cream sundae.  Brain Freeze!

                                   
                   Wonder who painted this ~ I know!

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Road Trip

On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
The life I love is being with my friends
And I can't wait to get on the road again.

      Where are we going?  Up the Ohio River without a paddle.

Well I, Sweet William The Scot, am going to tell you so hold your horses and don't get your britches in a wad! Mount Pleasant, Ohio.

You ask what is in Mt. Pleasant?  Mount Pleasant, Ohio is where Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States was born. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and effectively ended the Civil War with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox.

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The little home was lifted from its foundation and moved by boat to Cincinnati for public exhibition. From 1885 to 1896 the home was on the move across the state and the nation for expositions, state fairs, and other events. Between 1896 and 1936 it sat on the Ohio State Fairgrounds, sheltered in a limestone and glass pavilion. After 50 years on the road, in 1935, the Clermont County legislators and the Ohio Historical Society secured the passage of an act authorizing the Society to move the building back to its Point Pleasant original location. It was moved and dedicated in 1936.

Let me into this house!

Well I could not get in but, Flat George got the royal tour.

Boots at Flat George's feet were made by Ulysses Grant's father a tanner.

Everything in the home is original to the family and was there when Ulysses was born.

Look at all the campaign buttons from the wars General Grant gave his service.

Trunk Ulysses Grant took with him to West Point.  It was also made by his father, a tanner.  He packed light.

Jeeze Louise, I never got into the little frame home.

 Have a Happy, Safe, Beautiful 4th of July. 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot


Pssss ~ Flat George has been a little flat lately ~
Help Flat George get moving!!!!

Pssssssssssss ~ We have another new friend Pearl Adventures ~
Please go and say Hi, they would like to meet you!

Funky in My Town + My Zentangle

Something is FUNKY, ABERRANT, ABNORMAL, ANOMALOUS, BIZARRE, CAPRICIOUS ya think? 

I am eight miles from home and whose steps am I sitting on??
I feel something staring at me! There are multiple eyes looking and to whom do they belong?

  

The Mushroom House, also known as the Tree House, is an ornately fanciful home built by architect Terry Brown in the Oakley/Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio.  It was built between 1992 and 2006 and served as the architect's secondary residence until his untimely death in 2008. Standing on the busy corner of Erie and Tarpis Ave, it is a prominent Cincinnati landmark..  The house remained in the family with his wife owning the property till now.  Rumor has it is up for sale for $349,000.  Five rooms, one bedroom, one bath, 1,260 square feet. Ya think you want to buy?

For inside pictures go here. It is something to see. REALLY YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS ONE REALLY!!!!!!

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3331-Erie-Ave-Cincinnati-OH-45208/34208901_zpid/

Using more than 35 former students from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, where Mr. Brown was an adjunct assistant professor, they helped build circular steel steps, deck rails of wood shingles, stained glass windows, tiled ceilings. Using a variety of materials, wood, colored glass, shell, ceramics, and various metals.
 

I won this over at Reilly & Denny Cowspotdogblog.  Bree does the most wonderful work. Thank You Bree for my picture it is truly a work of art and love. 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Psssssssssss ~ We have new friends, they are  Prescott & Joules at Fear the Beards.  Please go and visit them.

The Real Deal

Well I tricked you in my last postie saying those were my flowers. Now I want to show you some of Lee's and my true flowers that are blooming now.

Our Hydrangea is beautiful. I hide in here and become a Will-o'-the-Wisp with supernatural powers to spy on my neighbors. I watch for forbidden, illegal, illicit actions.

Our Daylilies and Russian Purple Sage are at full bloom. I keep watch so the deer stay away. For the last three years the deer have eaten the Daylilies. Lee planted the Russian Purple Sage last year after being told it was a deer deterrent. Well the deer have left us alone this year. I think I, Sweet William The Scot, am the deterrent ya think?  Lee thinks it is the Sage that is keeping the deer away.

Now look at the flowers behind me. They say a tree grows in Brooklyn. Well a Prickly Pear Cactus grows in Cincinnati. Last year our low was -6 degrees, we had a mild winter. Yet our cactus grows and it is one of the largest in the area.

Kylascott out there in Arizona I challenge you to show me a cactus with more flowers. Over seven hundred blooms. Yes, I counted them myself last year.

Next time I will show you what I got from Reilly and Denny over at Cowspotblog.  And a big thanks to Basset Momma for giving us The Lovely Blog Award.  That is our to do list.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Pssssssss ~ It took us 57 hours to get our music back up.  The server we used was not nice and took our tune away.  We had to find another way to get our music back.  We did not want the music to die.

My Town

Look at the flowers I grow ~ white clematis, red tulips, yellow chrysanthemum.  My garden is so beautiful and I don't have to water or fertilize.

Oh I made another terminological inexactitued, I'm bad.  Now for really bad ! Everytime I say clematis we laugh because Lee has a friend who seriously called the flower white or purple chlamydia.  By the way her chlamydia plants were beautiful this year.  Now I have digressed from subject Bawhehehe!

  

This mural appeared painted on the concrete wall along Route 50 this Spring.  I, Sweet William The Scot, wanted you to see the part of my town which the mural reflects.  Columbia-Tusculum is the oldest neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and is located on the East Side of the city.  About three miles from my home.  It is a historic district that was once a neighborhood where steamboats were built.  The neighborhood is noted for the Victorian era homes decorated in the painted ladies multi-color style.  See the mural has several of the painted ladies and lovely flowers and birds.

The real houses.

Higher Level Art added a splash of color to the drab concrete wall near the gardens.  Students from the Art Academy of Cincinnati helped in the project.

http://www.pbase.com/cincyimages/columbia_tusculum

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine.

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot