Shortly after this, I went out to visit one of me' ol' high school buds--presently living in Ohio.

   I don't have any explanation for this one.  Here is a (not too hot) picture of a stone hippopotamus--just sitting there on the streets of Yellow Springs:

   Well, I thought that this was cool--it is a giant Harry Potter--built entirely of legos.  Fred--I think this was in Xenia, 'n stuff.

   Man--does the following ever have some "serious history." This is a picture of the Trail Tavern, the oldest building in the town of Yellow Springs--in fact, it is the oldest building in Greene County.  (It was actually used a trading post, in the "old frontier." (!)) When Rod Serling was a professor at nearby Antioch College, he was a "regular" at lunchtime.  (Rod Serling is buried in Sulphur Springs, New York.  At first, I found that hard to believe--but then, there have been quite a few things in my life that I have found hard to believe about Sulphur Springs.  ;) :) ) Anyway--inside the Trail Tavern, there are these "booth jukeboxes"--so old that they're all busted.  They replaced those REALLY old "booth fortune-telling machines"--apparently so old themselves--that they were already all busted.  The only episode of "The Twilight Zone" featuring William Shatner (and I find it hard to believe that there are all that many "out there" who don't immediately recognize the genuine American icon, James Tiberius Kirk :) ) was about booth fortune-telling machines (I *finally* got to see it.  :) )--inspired by visiting the Trail Tavern!! Wow.

   *CORRECTION* -I stand corrected: Fred (Who is _from_ Greene County, BTW :) ) corrected me.  William Shatner was in at least one other Twilight Zone episode--"There's a man on the wing!!" :)

On to more "Ohio pics."