Something Different

Today we decided to head to the closest thing to the Grand Canyon I've seen in Ohio. I know, it is a stretch, but it is also only an hour away.

We drove the Saab up this morning and had a late breakfast at the Clifton Mill, an antiquated grist mill that still operates on the Gorge. They operate a full service restaurant at the mill.





Clifton Gorge is a canyon carved through the limestone near Xenia and Yellow Springs, Ohio. In one place, the pass between the rock faces is only about 10 feet across.








While on the trail we passed this patch of Black-Eyed Susans. There was some Poison Ivy (see the leaves in the upper left of the picture), that I tried to keep out of the picture. Hopefully Marsha does not catch Poison Ivy just based on the picture.

Mary finally wrestled the camera from me and took my picture. We hiked to the bottom of the gorge, which took us about an hour after stopping for pictures and reading all the descriptive plaques. We headed back up the trail since Mary is still nursing her torn tendon and it looks like I may have messed up my knee a little. I'll find out more in about a week. I really don't want anything to mess up the rest of golf season, but if I need to have it fixed I want it done this year since I have all my deductables met.