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WEDDING

Hot Times Festival
Olde Towne's yearly community music, poetry & arts gathering.
Hot Times

SEPTEMBER, 2005

S E P T E M B E R 1 7 , 2 0 0 5

ABOVE Starting off. The girls' open race at Franklin Park.

Butternut sqaush soup
Very good, but very time-consuming for Amy to make.

Cross Country Invitational
High school event at Franklin Park; we brought Charlie and said hello to the Watterson runners (and coaches) Amy knows.

The nature of cross country runs afforded plenty of time to look at the gardens on the grounds of the conservatory.

ABOVE Morning glory. In blue -- I want one.

ABOVE Zinnia "Envy". In green -- I really want one.

S E P T E M B E R 1 6 , 2 0 0 5

Erranding up north
First we tried again on couches -- at Ashley Furniture, where they at least had models (plural) that featured attached back pillows, and then at Value City Furniture, where the floor models clearly expressed "cheap," but not so much "value."

Then to the brand new Whole Foods store, which is immense and overwhelming. Finally, to Trader Joe's, much smaller and welcoming.

And then we got home and ordered takeout from the neighborhood Indian Oven -- Vegetarian Korma and rice pudding.

Vegetable Navratan Korma
Fresh mixed vegetables cooked with raisins, coconut, nuts & finished with a creamy curry sauce.

Kheer
Rice pudding with cardarmom sprinkled with pistachios & almonds.

Lunch courtesy Capitol Equities
We were invited to the party they hosted for their tenants at the Design Center building on Marconi Boulevard.

Frightening.
Very frightening. Creationists enlist stupendous allies | Dispatch

CABAZON, Calif. — Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.

The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over I-10 near Palm Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for tourists.

Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes that dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.

Dinny’s new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah’s Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn: ‘‘Don’t swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."

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The nearly 7-acre museum, low-tech theme park and science center embodies its founder’s belief that God created the world in six days. The dinosaurs, even supercarnivores such as T. rex, dined as vegetarians in the Garden of Eden until Adam and Eve sinned — and only then did they feast on other creatures, according to the Christian-based young-Earth theory.

About 4,500 years after Adam and Eve arrived, the theory goes, pairs of baby dinosaurs huddled in Noah’s Ark, and a colossal flood drowned the rest and scattered their fossils. The ark-borne animals repopulated the planet — meaning that folk tales about fire-breathing beasts are accounts of humans battling dinosaurs.

‘‘Go to Disneyland, they teach evolution. It’s subtle; signs that say, ‘Millions of years ago,’ " said evangelist Kent Hovind, the park’s founder. ‘‘This is a golden opportunity to get our point across."

S E P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 0 5

ABOVE Rooftop relaxation. The Motorists building in the background, downtown Columbus.

Choir practice
Bexley afterwards. Amy was up watching over Allison and Anneliese.

S E P T E M B E R 1 4 , 2 0 0 5

ABOVE Blooming ivy. When English ivy crawls across the ground, it doesn't bloom. When it climbs upwards, it blooms en masse. With much attraction to the insect world, it seems.

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Pizza Plus
Pepperoni and banana peppers

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ABOVE Art cars. At Hot Times, on the grounds of the old Ohio State Asylum for the Blind, seen reflected in the car's window.

Hot Times Festival
Caught the tail end of the poetry slam, a little bit of music on the main stage, and glimpsed the mayor out shaking hands.

ABOVE A colorful vendor, looking decidedly dour for all the cheerful color in her booth.

ABOVE For sale. It's amazing what you can buy in a bottle.

ABOVE AND BELOW On the main stage.

ABOVE Mayor Coleman. Makes the rounds.

Offertory | John Ness Beck
Sang the choir. The Bauers were in Pittsburgh with David & Linda and family, so all the tenors and basses had to take Walt's traditional solo: "He has shown you O man ... He has shown you what is good."

Hudson's sermon included appeals to "Are you listening Brother Rod [Parsley]?" "Are you listening, Secretary of State Blackwell?" two people who seem to have missed today's lesson from Paul on tolerance.