Saturday Snapshot

My new favorite thing is my monthly Birchbox. I wrote about it in a previous post here. I received my March Birchbox and it was filled with great nice sized samples of items I am interested in. It's a treat, something just for me which is rare these days. You can read more about Birchbox

Tarte Lip Tint in Lucky (pink shade)

Essie Nail Polish in "As Gold As It Gets"

Kerastase Elixer Hair Conditioning  Oil

Twist Band in Coral

Kate Spade Twirl Perfume Sample

Modcloth coupon

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce of At Home With Books

Saturday Snapshot

We've had an unusually warm winter (except we currently have a few inches of snow on the ground) and this picture was taken at the beginning of February on a warm day. My son and I went to Walmart and outside we noticed this Penny Farthing bicycle. Of course, mom had to take a picture and you can see from the expression on my son's face that he had an "oh, mom...do you have to?" moment. We've seen a man riding this type of bicycle in the area but it's usually in the spring or summer, not in winter. The owner must be tall as I can't imagine climbing up onto this bicycle without a stepstool! You can read more about the Penny Farthing bicycle on wikipedia, here.  

From Wikipedia:

Penny-farthing, high wheel, high wheeler, and ordinary are all terms used to describe a type of bicycle with a large front wheel and a much smaller rear wheel that was popular after the boneshaker, until the development of the safety bicycle, in the 1880s.^[1] They were the first machines to be called "bicycles"

A penny-farthing photographed in theŠkoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic

Old British Penny and Farthing (quarter penny) coins which inspired the name of the Penny-Farthing bicycle

Penny-farthings are still ridden today, if only for the novelty value

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Saturday Snapshot

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I wanted to share this photo I took a few weeks ago when my husband, son and I went to a nearby park that has a gorgeous lake that you can see in this picture. It's a very peaceful place to walk and enjoy the nature and quiet. There is a walking path that takes you around the lake and in the summer you can rent canoes or paddle boats and take them out on the lake. It was a beautiful fall day and I liked how the blue paddle boats and canoes looked against the background of the lake. You can see the leaves on the trees beyond the lake just starting to turn colors. We had a late start to the colorful change of fall leaves here in Ohio due to the excessive amount of rain we've received.