Everyday Images

Photo prompts are

Scenery

on top of it

arched

fresh

Sunday simplicity

at home (monthly)

spring

Scenery:

Not sure if a cityscape is considered scenery but I'm using it for the prompt. I will likely write more about it later when I get a chance, but Donnie's firm moved out of Dayton and to the suburbs last week. Everything about the move was not easy in terms of decisions that had to be made about a plethora of issues, but he and the other owners felt certain it was the right move (literally as it were) to make. I went to Donnie's office in Dayton before the move to see it one last time and to take some pictures. Here are some photos from Donnie's office.

You can't see it well here, but the building with the red on the top floor, there's an American flag flying near the top of the building. 

The building in the foreground, the glass paneled one, is called the Schuster Center for the Performing Arts. I remember when it was built probably close to twenty years ago. It was a "big deal" for Dayton to get a beautiful, large performing arts center (there are a few much smaller venues in town; Abby performed in a couple of them when she danced :)). The Schuster family donated a boatload of money, ergo the name, for its construction and now it houses Broadway performances.  The Dayton Ballet (the oldest ballet corp in the country) and philharmonic call it home as well. The last time I saw a show at the Schuster was when Donnie and I saw Chicago.

I like seeing the American flag flying on this building as well. 

The body of water in this pic (near the middle) is called the Great Miami River. "Great" is a bit of an ambitious adjective but that's what someone decided to call it :). There is a smaller river in the area called the Little Miami River. So I guess this one is "great" in size compared to the little? 

On top of it:

We stayed in Miami Beach last year for spring break. I associate Miami Beach with a loud, party atmosphere and looked hard to find a place to stay that was NOT known for its party scene #unabashedly/unapologetically fuddyduddy. I apparently found it because the place we stayed in Miami was fairly quiet/calm.  Fort Myers Beach, this year for spring break, was hopping with partiers. I would have guessed I was in Miami Beach based on my perceptions of the two places. It likely had something to do with the place we stayed in FMB. The two times we've stayed in FMB before, we stayed at a more high-end resort. Adults in that resort would very likely have cocktails with dinner but getting smashed did not appear to be the goal for most adults most evenings. Where we stayed this year... all bets were off. All I know was that our room was one floor on top of one of the bars in the hotel. YIKES. Can you say loud? 

This picture is on our balcony- you can see that our room is on top of a restaurant/bar area of the hotel (the spot with the plank floors and picnic tables). Our room was super loud at night from the music/voices emanating from the restaurant/bar. Thankfully the noise didn't tarry too far into the night... (I would have strongly requested a room change if that had been the case!)

Arched:

Abby requested a mirror for her room years and years ago. I found one for her that's more like a piece of furniture than just a rectangle to hang on or over a doorway. Since the frame is rounded, it arches up as it curves.

(Goodness, if someone had told me when I bought her the mirror that I would one day be taking selfies and posting them on my blog, Id'a said, that's not going to happen, lol.)

Speaking of me (and arches), I couldn't help but notice that in this picture of me, the hair on the top of my head, near my part, is arched up. I don't think it's normally this poofed/arched? Maybe I poofed it for the picture? I was taking photos of me in my new Reds t-shirt to wear to an Opening Day event at our friends' house. 

Another arch! This one is in the lobby of Donnie's (now) old office in Dayton. The office space was huge and did have some neat features to it (not worth the commute for anyone but it did have some good features). 

Fresh

Not sure our Midwest/land locked/Ohio residing selves possess palates with sufficient maritime knowledge/nuance to know better or not, but supposedly (per restaurants' menus) the seafood Alyssa and I ate in FMB was fresh. Tasted good which really is all that counts :). 

Sunday simplicity

I don't have a new picture for this (I try to post pics for this link up that I haven't used in prior posts but sometimes that's not possible). So I'm going to use my dinner pic that I posted just yesterday. Most Sundays when the weather is nice, Donnie grills and we sit outside and eat. We do this other evenings, not just Sundays, but we do it often on Sundays. In the spring and fall there are usually games on the telly that we watch when we eat. When we eat inside, I don't like the TV to be on. But there's something about eating outside that doesn't make me require the TV to be turned off. When we ate outside on Sunday, we were watching a college basketball game. 

This was from Sunday a couple of weeks ago.

At home

No words from me, just a few from some bunnies (I'm cracking myself up!)

Spring

Spring has been so nice so far- decent to good weather, some fun activities, seeing lots of green including in the garden, etc. I've planted cool tolerant seeds like romaine lettuce and peas into the ground already.

The daffodils are done blooming but as of now, for color, we have some tulips and crocus flowers blooming. 

Linking up with Kym for Everyday Images and Joanne for Talking About it Tuesday.