Spring Gems

Discussion created by Cousin-Itt on Apr 22, 2020
Latest reply on Apr 24, 2020 by SuzyQ411

Like • Show 2 Likes2
Comment • 30

What's you favorite hidden spring gem in your city ?

First I just want to say my Lilacs smell awesome as they are blooming So glad I quit smoking so I can enjoy them

2 Favorite spring outings that Joyce and I enjoy in Cincinnati since I quit smoking and before the Covid

Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum the 3rd largest cemetery in the United States. In my opinion the most beautiful place in the City of Cincinnati especially in spring The history, headstones, statues, mausoleums, chapels and the tranquility and beauty. Sadly due to the pandemic they are only open on Sundays 8 to 5 (If you are bored and looking for something to do search "Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum Cincinnati" "add images" to see amazing pictures

The Cincinnati Zoo sadly this spring is closed. The tulips right about now at the zoo are in bloom features more than one million daffodils, hyacinths, flowering trees, shrubs and other spring bulbs. Plus we mustn't forget the zoo babies

Eden Park Arboretum and Krohn Conservatory Sadly the Conservatory is closed but Eden Park is partially opened

If you ever come to Cincinnati see these places remember no one come to Cincinnati for Professional Football

Joyce and I have discovered several other parks with great walking trails and over looks so all is still good.Spring Grove Cemetery

S G Cemetery Mausoleum & Chapel

Cincinnati Zoo

Outcomes

30 Replies

AnnetteMM Apr 22, 2020 11:59 AM
Beautiful pictures! I live near Rochester, NY, the home of the famous Lilac Festival. Sadly, it won't happen this year, but it's usually a pretty big event.
Like • Show 3 Likes3
Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ AnnetteMM on Apr 22, 2020 6:07 PM
  Our Governor pretty much told us not to expect Sporting Events, Concerts or Festivals this year I will definitely miss the festivals
  Like • Show 4 Likes4
  Actions
Youngatheart.7.4.12 Apr 22, 2020 1:30 PM
They also canceled the Cherry Blossom Festival around the basin in DC. I have only been a few times (the crowds are horrific and the sidewalk by the basin is narrow) - but it was probably the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen......(well, except for the alpine lake in Oechinensee, Switzerland with a million stars overhead and the moon shining off the snow-topped Alps!).
(and the water WAS really that color!)
Ah, MEMORIES!
And lilac time is my all-time favorite flower season -bed linens and jammies hung outside to dry, room cleaned, vases of lilacs all around. AH - HEAVEN!
Like • Show 3 Likes3
Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ Youngatheart.7.4.12 on Apr 22, 2020 6:13 PM
  Sounds like Joyce she has a vase of lilacs in the bedroom and on the dinning room table The lake looks magical
  Like • Show 4 Likes4
  Actions
  - Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ Cousin-Itt on Apr 22, 2020 6:16 PM
    O M G - it WAS!
    Like • Show 4 Likes4
    Actions
sweetplt Apr 22, 2020 4:48 PM
Cousin-Itt Absolutely beautiful Carl...nice share...In Doylestown we have such a quaint town with cobblestones etc., restaurants, taverns, shops, Bed and Breakfast, etc., the spring everyone comes out and walks around town and sits outside at restaurants and benches...it is simply charming...we have an Art festival, parades, Christmas tree lightening and more...it is sorely missed with the virus...Colleen 506 DOF
Like • Show 3 Likes3
Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ sweetplt on Apr 22, 2020 6:01 PM
  Colleen Beautiful Town. Your town is the type of town Joyce and I look for when we take our little trips before this virus hit
  1 person found this helpful
  Like • Show 3 Likes3
  Actions
Sootie Apr 22, 2020 7:51 PM
WOW! It must be so much warmer everywhere else! My lilacs have not even started blooming yet. My forsythia (sadly) started to bloom and then...of course...we got snow. It hardly even looks like Spring here yet. Our little town park is beautiful in Spring. It's my favorite walk with the dogs but sadly closed due to the virus. Actually too cold for the park yet anyway.
Youngatheart.7.4.12 Nancy- last year, we saw the cherry blossoms from the river.....we went on a boat and it was really fun. My daughter lives in Alexandria so she set it up....I don't even remember the name of the company. But it was a really nice way to view the blossoms ( and there were "beverages" and food). It is, as you said, a beautiful Spring sight.
Like • Show 4 Likes4
Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ Sootie on Apr 22, 2020 8:04 PM
  Today we were in the low 70s GoGo and I actually took a nap outside on this sunny afternoon. I put my chair in the grass of course I was barefoot and I had a towel laying in the grass for GoGo Spring seems to have come earlier this year as I've even cut my grass 4 times I'm not complaining
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
  - Sootie @ Cousin-Itt on Apr 22, 2020 10:06 PM
    Cousin-Itt Totally jealous. Low 40's today, windy but it was sunny and we considered that a PLUS.......last evening...snow showers.
    Like • Show 1 Like1
    Actions
- Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ Sootie on Apr 22, 2020 10:07 PM
  I will have to look into that for the future. Seems like much more fun than dodging the camera crowds!
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
Giulia Apr 23, 2020 1:29 AM
Sootie "and then...of course...we got snow. It hardly even looks like Spring here yet." And you wanted me to send you plants???? Kiss kiss!

I have a particular fondness for Cincinnati due to the true joy of working at the Cincinnati Playhouse on numerous occasions doing some of the most emotionally enriching experiences of my life - in the spring there. Actually have the Key to the City awarded to me in 1979 by the then Mayor Bobby Sterne, I think it was. A prize worth more than any great NY review I've gotten. Thanks for reminding me of the Spring there. (Made me polish up my key. It sits on my desk still.) The glorious times when the Mockingbirds sing their most amazing tunes all night long and the trees are all sweet-tipped green with new growth, and the Red Buds in their glory glow. Somehow the Playhouse which is located on one of the beautiful hills there (except in the winter!), has always made me think of Nazareth. Well not always. Only when I actually had the amazing opportunity to see Nazareth was the connection made. Another one of my favorite places in your town is the insect house at the Zoo. Thanks for reminding me of the joy I experienced there. Never went to the Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum. How did I miss that? May there be a next time when I can have that pleasure too. And maybe visit with you and Joyce as the topper on the cake.

1 person found this helpful
Like • Show 2 Likes2
Actions
- Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ Giulia on Apr 23, 2020 8:53 AM
  Inquiring minds want to know what play you were performing to have earned such an honor!
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ Giulia on Apr 23, 2020 11:56 AM
  You are always welcome in Cincinnati as Joyce and I would love to see you
  Yes it was Bobbie Stern the Cities first female mayor. You just missed Jerry Springer being mayor
  You will be amazed at the changes at the zoo since your last trip
  Play House in the Park is located in Eden Park in Mount Adams
  Morning Spring Fog on the Ohio River. You can also see downtown looking down river. This is walking distance from the Play House
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
  - Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ Cousin-Itt on Apr 23, 2020 12:14 PM
    Lovely photo!
    JERRY SPRINGER was mayor???? "Oh, my!"
    Add that to your football team!!! Double "Oh, my!'
    Like • Show 1 Like1
    Actions
    - Cousin-Itt @ Youngatheart.7.4.12 on Apr 23, 2020 1:30 PM
      Actually he was one check away from being Governor of Ohio LOL
      Like • Show 1 Like1
      Actions
  - Giulia @ Cousin-Itt on Apr 23, 2020 12:32 PM
    Beautiful picture!
    Youngatheart.7.4.12 (Hedda Gabler)
    Like • Show 1 Like1
    Actions
    - Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ Giulia on Apr 23, 2020 12:39 PM
      What character did you play?
      Like • Show 1 Like1
      Actions
      - Giulia @ Youngatheart.7.4.12 on Apr 23, 2020 12:51 PM
        Hedda. Have played her 3 times and Thea once.
        Like • Show 1 Like1
        Actions
        Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ Giulia on Apr 23, 2020 1:55 PM
        The
        I'm impressed!!!
        
        Like • Show 2 Likes2
        Actions
SuzyQ411 Apr 23, 2020 10:42 PM
You make me want to visit Cincinnati, Cousin-Itt ! ( I know my middle son has his heart there as he's a die-hard Reds fan)
I also love meandering through cemeteries; and putting together families' genealogy you can learn from the head stones.
I'm so glad you and Joyce--and all Cincinnati couples-- have so many opportunities for date-nights (and afternoons)~
1 person found this helpful
Like • Show 1 Like1
Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ SuzyQ411 on Apr 24, 2020 9:23 AM
  Suzy, Out of this whole mess I do miss baseball I would have been to 3 of 4 Reds games by now.
  Cincinnati has several nice parks and since the city is surrounded by hills they have some nice overlooks.
  this is Mt Echo Park This is a great place to walk as it is not heavily visited and is the closest overlook to us
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
  - SuzyQ411 @ Cousin-Itt on Apr 24, 2020 9:24 PM
    Being the Mom of 3 sons whose Dad loved baseball (definitely of the Dodgers type) and transmitted this devotion onto them, I attended many live games myself. However, the only somewhat close ballpark was in Montreal (when the Expos played there.) So we'd choose a weekend with double headers and head for one of the St. Lawrence Seaway bridges connecting New York State with Canada.
    In these pix you shared just now, I love the water, heavy foliage and the budding fruit trees. Also the air looks clean for a city... You guys picked a neat place to live!
    Like • Show 1 Like1
    Actions
minihorses Apr 24, 2020 2:52 PM
I hate you, you have lilacs! My favorite flower! I loved going to the lilac festival in upstate NY. They were everywhere. Even the cottages on lake Ontario planted them. I miss that smell so much.
Like • Show 1 Like1
Actions
- Youngatheart.7.4.12 @ minihorses on Apr 24, 2020 3:10 PM
  I don't think I could live anywhere they didn't have lilacs! Mine have done well this year - it has been cool/cold and rainy, and I have had them for three weeks, going on four now.
  I send my sympathy for your lack!
  Nancy
  Like • Show 2 Likes2
  Actions
  - minihorses @ Youngatheart.7.4.12 on Apr 24, 2020 3:22 PM
    I had perfume custom made that is lilac only smell. Closest I can get to the real thing. I always get comments on it when I wear it.
    Like • Show 3 Likes3
    Actions
- SuzyQ411 @ minihorses on Apr 24, 2020 9:01 PM
  As a resident very close to Lake Ontario in northern New York State, I know just what you mean about the lilacs minihorses
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
SuzyQ411 Apr 24, 2020 8:37 PM
The spring run-off at Talcott Falls, about 10 minutes from my home... On the website, we are told "the ribbon-tiered waterfall is about 35-feet high."
Like • Show 1 Like1
Actions
- Cousin-Itt @ SuzyQ411 on Apr 24, 2020 8:44 PM
  Beautiful Thank you
  Like • Show 1 Like1
  Actions
SuzyQ411 Apr 24, 2020 8:43 PM
Another angle of Talcott Falls. Although the falls are about 150 feet from the road and are hard to see once the surrounding Adirondack trees open their buds, you can hear the pounding rush of the water through the open windows of your car as you pass by.
1 person found this helpful
Like • Show 1 Like1
Actions

Spring Gems

Outcomes

Related Content

Recommended Content