It's been slow today, so I've kept myself busy by brushing up on photo touch-up and paste-up skills using whatever's handy - which just happens to be a pile of the photos I've been taking from my apartment balcony all summer long. Click above for a full-size, composite panorama from early May. You're looking south/south-east: Columbia Road (not visible but for telephone lines) divides a cliff face from the Cleveland Metroparks valley, with Cleveland Hopkins Airport and the city of Berea on the distant horizon. Mastick Road can be seen in the lower left-hand corner.
I see this view every day and yes, after living in a suburb all my life, hemmed in by houses and treetops, I love it. Summer was fantastic - sunny days were as beautiful as the one I've captured; rain showers would leave strips of fog hanging in the forest, tracing the valley's curves. Autumn turned the trees into a chorus of yellows, reds and ochres, from which I managed to make a panoramic set of snaps. I'll develop those soon in time for winter, where snow and ice are sure to provide for me the wonderful sights my sister would always talk about (and photograph, occasionally) when she lived in the building years ago.