Bloom where you are planted...Like a flower pushing through the cracks, you can thrive despite challenging situations.
Look at this cute little pansy! Don't you just love its face-like markings?A pretty bouquet for the Easter dinner table grown by a young woman who has a small-scale flower farm in Dayton's Historic Inner East neighborhood. She sells the bouquets at Pink Moon Goods, a gift and stationery shop in the neighboring Huffman Historic District. Two women-owned businesses helping one another out.
A walk through downtown's RiverScape MetroPark. The ducks are waiting for the small pools to be filled with water.
The Miami Valley Bikeways is the nation’s largest paved trail network.
Two US Bike Routes pass through Dayton and RiverScape. US BR 25 North begins at the Michigan border and passes through Toledo, Lima and Dayton before ending just north of Cincinnati. This route runs along segments of the Little Miami Scenic Trail and Great Miami River Trail. USBR 50 in Ohio connects West Virginia in the east through Columbus to Indiana in the west. A few bikers were riding a long the river but had a few detours because the river was flooding the trail.
Saturday my daughter-in-law and I went to see Suffs, a musical based on the suffragists and the American women’s suffrage movement. It focuses on the historical events leading to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920 giving women the right to vote. Both of my grandmothers were born in 1904 and were 16 years old when this amendment passed. I wonder if their mothers were involved in the suffragist movement. One of my grandmas was from Chicago where Ida B. Wells, a black woman, a pioneering suffragist and civil rights activist fought for women's voting rights while battling racism within the movement. She founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago to mobilize Black women voters and famously refused to march in the segregated back section of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade. She walked with the Illinois delegation, not behind it. Suffs will be on TV beginning on May 8. I highly recommend watching it.
Violets, my grandmother's favorites.
ReplyDeleteSuch a sweet flower.
DeleteThat show sounds fascinating. I'll watch for it. I love how that one duck looks like he's wondering when they water will arrive.
ReplyDeleteIt was very eye-opening and inspiring. It covered a lot of history in the performance time. These ladies fought a long and difficult battle for the right to vote.
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