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If you work in downtown Columbus and live in the suburbs tomorrow is opening day of the season, according to Two Wheeling. I found the info on Tina’s Green Buckeye blog… about Douglas Morgan’s plan to get more people doing the 20 mile round trip via bike.

Free donuts and bagels at the coffee shop near Hills Market on 315 in the morning, tomorrow for those making the bike trek to downtown. The bike commuters will finish up the day at the Rusty Bucket… refreshements are compliments of the law firm Morgan works for.

Join Us for Opening Day 2007
Please join me and my biking buddies next Tuesday, April 17, for “Opening Day” of the 2007 biking season. We will meet at the coffee shop next to Hill’s Market (on Route 315 at the base of Worthington Hills) at 7am……….my law firm, Calfee, Halter & Griswold, has graciously offered to foot the bill for coffee and bagels for all intrepid riders who show up for our traditional Opening Day ride. We will begin our ride downtown via the Olentangy bike path at 7:30 sharp…..we will ride leisurely with due regard for our friends who are “shaking off the rust” from the winter

Morgan says there will be at least two more opportunities to do a communal ride to work this year, “National Ride Your Bike to Work Week” this summer and he is also sponsoring an event at the “”End” to the biking season… however it sounds like he bikes to work year round. Read the story on his blog’s left sidebar about how he stopped using a car and started using a bike for transportation. Or maybe he takes the bus when you really, really can’t ride a bike in Central Ohio?

I have two blogs. I think of this one as my red blog and the other as my blue blog… nothing political in either… it’s just kind of designer, color scheme thing… but I am going to try to make both just a bit green this week in honor of Earth Day.

The bicycle rider photo is compliments of GeekPhilosopher.com

Carole Cohen of Cleveland asks “Do you remember Yuri Gagarin?”

Nope, I don’t. I think when I was in school Gagarin’s accomplishment was not mentioned except in hushed tones. I do remember American rockets (is that what astronaut John Glenn went to space in?) A rocket or a spacecraft?

The Google special anniversary April 12, 2007 logo may join the holiday logos on Google someday.

Did you see the Google image today in honor of Yuri Gagarin today? Carole wrote that Wikipedia calls him the “Columbus of the Cosmos” for exploring space in 1961. The first man in space.

My eyes were still sleepy when I saw the Google on my screen. I thought it was something to do with baseball. Is the second o in Google a “sputnik” or Soviet spacecraft or is that the moon? It looked like a baseball to me..this morning. I was trying to figure out the world and baseball and the funny little fellas at the end were all about. Then I clicked on the Google image to see what the story was and went to the Wikipedia entry about Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Nope I don’t remember that.

Did the US send a man into space just a few weeks later? The photo above says it was the

“May 5, 1961 launch of Redstone rocket and NASA’s Mercury spacecraft #7 Freedom 7 with Alan Shepard Jr. on the United States’ first manned sub-orbital spaceflight. (Atlas rockets were used to launch Mercury’s orbital missions.)”

Less than a month later the US space program sent a man into space? I don’t remember that either but I do remember later … Ohioan John Glenn was the hero to school children and a few years later Ohioan Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon?

Thanks Carole. Thanks Google.

The image of the Mercury Spacecraft above is from Wikipedia and is in the public domain (not copyrighted) according to Wikipedia. The image of the Soviet spacecraft model at the top is also from Wikipedia. The photo is not copyrighted according to Wikipedia… the little ball shaped thing on the top is what I thought the second O in Google was after I thought it wasn’t a baseball after all. Was that what fell back to the earth at the end of the space journey?

Thanks Wikipedia.

Springfield is not Columbus but it is close… It is worth the short drive to vist the The Westcott House in my opinion… I got an email about a lecture… “Sustainable Landscapes: Past and Present” which is NOT at The Wescott House but is related to this Frank Lloyd Wright gem in Ohio.

As garden season starts… really the snow will stop soon won’t it? … there’s a lecture on “Sustainable Landscapes: Past and Present” tomorrow, Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.

Carol J. H. Yetken, CYLA Design Associates, Oak Park, Illionois will lecture about sustainable landscapes.

the email I got says:

“What is sustainable landscape? Can a thoughtful design process improve the quality of life and secure a healthy environment for future generations? Can one learn from the past? Carol J. H. Yetken will address these questions while talking about the different approaches to the art of landscaping, past and present. A practicing landscape architect, Ms. Yetken is a founder of CYLA Design Associate. She also teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified Professional, and her firm is a member of the U. S. Green Building Council. Ms. Yetken developed the landscape reconstruction plan for The Westcott House site.”

Location: Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, Wittenberg University, Bayley Auditorium (at the corner of Bill Edwards Drive & Plum Street)

Single Lecture Admission: $15, WHF Members: $10, Free Admission for Students With Valid I.D.

For tickets, Call: 937-327-9291. Tickets will also be available at the Auditorium 15 minutes prior to all the lectures

We of course have FLW fans in Central Ohio and quite a few homes that were inspired by Frank Llloyd Wright.

The Wescott House

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

Happy Easter from Columbus Best Blog!

Real Living ecard

April 4 on PhillySkyline.com

CITYSEARCH, BEST OF COLUMBUS OHIO

Brad of PhillySkyline.com wrote:

“Ummmmmm. Yes, Joe’s Pizza is highly recommended. (Get the Hawaiian; there’s something about the peppers they use.) But uh, Citysearch? What’s up with the picture of the Columbus, Ohio skyline on all the Best Of stickers around town? Yeah, we get it, it’s stock photography, no one notices these things. Except, well, the people who notice these things.

Citysearch is backed by Microsoft. Isn’t the pool of money there deep enough that each city’s Best Of can be, I dunno, unique to that city? I’m sure Columbus, Ohio has some fine pizzerias . . . but I don’t really need to think about them while I’m eating at Joe’s. ”

Do we have a “Joe’s Pizza” in Columbus? We have Papa Joe’s Pizza in Columbus … Searching Citysearch…. in Columbus.. 645 listings for pizza… If any of them changes their name to Joe’s Pizza Citydearch is advertising them in Philadelphia.