Fall bouquet

Happy 15 Year Anniversary.

Fall hiking spree

Celebrate the Summit Metro Parks Centennial with a self-guided tour. We learned how 20 different parks and trails came into existence, what makes them unique and where they are headed next. In addition to earnings our annual hiking badge, we got earned an extra to celebrate the Parks' 100 year history.

Breksville Station

Sunflowers

Wild common sunflowers can be grown as a crop for its oil, wild bird food, livestock forrage, or for ornamental domestic gardens. These were part of a Metroparks trail, and were numerous and beautiful.

Praying mantis

Chinese.

Milkweed bugs

Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is probably the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grasshoppers are plant-eaters, with a few species at times becoming serious pests of cereals, vegetables and pasture, especially when they swarm in their millions as locusts and destroy crops over wide areas. They protect themselves from predators by camouflage; when detected, many species attempt to startle the predator with a brilliantly-coloured wing-flash while jumping and (if adult) launching themselves into the air, usually flying for only a short distance. This one was blended in seamlessly with the concrete.