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State of Ohio Asylum for the Insane Cemetery

a few of my favorite headstones

east cleveland abandoned factory

Workman Cemetery

abandoned hospital

The Burying Point

found on the beach // balls

FeatherSnap bird feeder review

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    found on the beach // lighters

    by Kaylah Stroup May 5, 2014

    The other day I spent some time picking trash up on the beach and realized I seemed to be finding A LOT of lighters. Every few steps I was finding one. I decided to pick all of them that I found up in hopes that I’d maybe find enough to take a special picture of them on their own. By the time I was done, maybe an hour and a half later, I had found fifty lighters total. Crazy, right? Of course, I had to lay them out in color order for the photo.

    Aside from lighters, another thing I seem to find a lot of are combs. Beach combin’! Hehe! I also find a lot of tampon applicators but I don’t think I’ve reached the level of crazy where I think picking up tampon applicators on the beach is acceptable… yet.

    Buuuuut I have reached the level of crazy where I’ve decided to keep all of the lighters I found that day and all of the lighters I find on the beach until the end of summer so that I can take a huge group photo of them. The handful of times I’ve been back to the beach since this time I’ve found maybe five or six more each time. Obviously that’s nowhere close to as many as the first time but it still seems like a lot. Anyone want to take a wild guess how many my end of summer group photo will have?  I’m super curious myself.

    xoxo

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  • found on the beach

    by Kaylah Stroup April 23, 2014

    I finally found a beach I can do one of my favorite hobbies at! Mickey and I had visited a beach right before everything thawed hoping to find some glass. I was super stoked because, although we found barely any glass, there was tons of trash. I couldn’t wait to go back and collect it …

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  • first hike of the spring // on film

    by Kaylah Stroup April 21, 2014

    The first few family hikes of spring are always my favorite. It’s magical watching everything coming back to life. New plants working their way up through the leaves and debris from last fall. Birds chirping and my favorite spring noise, peepers! This year it’s a little bit more special than normal since I’m now a …

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