Cincinnati Nature Center

We had no church service this morning due to the virus. They were supposed to be live-streaming a shortened worship service over Facebook, but unfortunately it wasn’t working well - probably because a lot of other churches were doing the same! So instead we listened to the morning service from BBC Radio 4 over the internet.  I fetched our hymn book and we sang along with the hymns, so we felt as if we were worshipping with them. 
It was a cloudy morning, but according to the forecast the sun was supposed to break through later. It tried a few times, but didn’t really succeed. However, it was dry, so we went out walking at Cincinnati Nature Center, or Rowe Woods as I sometimes refer to it. They have beautiful banks of daffodils on some of the slopes in the Spring, but it turned out it was still a bit early - some were out, but not in large numbers yet. However the hellebores were giving a fine display . The bottom scene in my collage shows Krippendorf lodge. 
Cincinnati Nature Center’s legacy began with Carl Krippendorf, born in Cincinnati in 1875 to German immigrants. His father was the founder and president of the Krippendorf-Dittman shoe company. When young Carl became ill with typhoid, his doctor counseled the Krippendorfs to send Carl away from the dirty air of the city. A country doctor living in Perintown agreed to house Carl for the summer. Thus began Carl’s love affair with nature. In 1898, Carl Krippendorf purchased 97 acres of the land where he spent the summer recuperating in order to prevent it from becoming a tobacco field. In the heart of his beloved woods, he built a home for his new bride, Mary, where they lived for 64 years. The lodge is now used as a very attractive wedding venue.