Wednesday Walk - Road Trip Walks

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Here are a few road trip walks for this #wednesdaywalk by tattoodjay@tattoodjay

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My wife wanted to see some painted frescos and an an art show in Toledo. Our first stop was in Toledo to see a huge cathedral with actual frescos in it.
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Sadly it was closed for some reason and we couldn't go in. Instead we walked around the massive building looking at all the intricacies.

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Now we had to drive a bit further and saw loads of these terrible looking windmills cluttering the farmland.
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At least the clouds looked interesting. We had plans to go swimming in Lake Michigan and Erie but it was too cold.

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Now we made it to the Toledo Art Museum to see a special exhibit. Along the way there were quite a few nice classical paintings in their general galleries.

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Way in the back is the artist we wanted to see.

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The whole exhibit at the back featured paintings by Rachel Ruysch. She basically did naturalistic paintings of mostly flowers but does a twist on them where she integrates birds, insects and reptiles into the paintings.

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After my daughter was bored in the exhibit there was a little workshop where you could draw your naturalistic picture and post it on the wall. I wish I had known about this place because it would have been easier to just let her draw here instead of being bored in the museum lol.

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Now its off to downtown Toledo... It was empty and only a few restaurants were open. Toledo definitely has lots of these large outdoor art sculptures.

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Now its off to a botanical garden before hitting Delaware Ohio. It was small but was a good opportunity to stretch our legs after driving so long.

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Now in Delaware we are hunting for a Native American mound. Everything was really green from all the rain in this park.

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Well we found the mound... It wasn't quite as elaborate as the effigy mounds in Iowa or the Monk mound in Illinois. But it was a nice trail and there was a fun visitor center for my daughter to play in.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)