Odds and Ends of the week

I have some random pictures this week to share with you---just a few glimpses into my world from the last few days.

My nephew graduated from college.  He is my brother's oldest son. That is his sister, the youngest member of my brother's family standing next to him.  I'm not sure what the official name of his degree is, but he has been studying a form of biology that deals with the genetics of plants.  He is going on to attend a branch of Ohio State University at the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, Ohio to get a Master's Degree and wants to work eventually in developing different hybrids of plants.

I had to work, but my husband had some time off.  He took a trip out to Marblehead, Ohio on Lake Erie to visit his mother.  He took this picture of the sunset over the lake.  I thought it was quite pretty and peaceful looking.

One of the flower beds in the park right now is doing particularly well and is full of color.

Unfortunately, a neighborhood dog or some other creature raided the bunny nest in my yard and carried off the baby bunnies.  I found the dug out hole left behind. The mother bunny is still around though. This is an early evening shot of her.  It was starting to get dark outside, but the flash caught and reflected in her eye.  She doesn't seem to stray too far from our yard.  Perhaps she'll have more babies later this summer.  The bunny population is thriving in this area in spite of the dogs.  I drove six houses down the street the other day and saw three bunnies in yards in that short distance.

My son and his girlfriend are heading off to Bowling Green State University to attend a week of orchestra string camp tomorrow.  Here they are comparing schedules for the camp on laptops.

Our town square was transformed into a noisy, colorful, brightly lit place full of people the past week.  The Jubilee, a yearly street festival, has been going on downtown.  Of course, we had to walk down and check it out one evening after work.

Batman has gotten himself into some kind of a fix.  He has apparently been turned into a stuffed prize at a carnival booth.  We will have to tune in tomorrow at the same bat time and on the same bat channel to see if Robin can save him from the clutches of the Joker!

Are you in the mood for something deep fried?  At just this one stand, you can get deep fried cookie dough,

cheesecake,

or candy bars!!  This festival is not exactly known for its selection of healthy foods.

Nope, I didn't ride on that!  I didn't ride on any of the other rides either.  We didn't eat any of the food there either.  Mostly we just walked around to see what was there.  It looks pretty much the same every year.  There was one new addition we noticed this year, though.  There was a wild animal show set up at one corner of the festival.

Here is the trainer giving a bottle to a baby kangaroo.

This giant tortoise behind some fencing in front of the stage caught the eye of quite a few young children.

This is the trainer back on stage again, this time with a monkey.

This shows the stage a little better.  He still has the monkey with him.  Do you see that black box to the back of the stage on the right side of the picture?  Inside of there is a huge python snake. (The trainer said it was a young male and that it would grow to a much larger size, but it looked pretty big to me already!)  I didn't get a good picture of the snake, but I was glad when they put him back in that box.

A baby white tiger won over the kids in the audience because it was so cute.

The last animal they brought out was this leopard (sorry the pictures are so fuzzy).

We walked back through the game and food booths area on our way home.

The street we walked on the way back home was all but deserted.