The purpose of this blog is to document one year in Columbus. One year of garden visits, hikes, festivals, great restaurants, delicious recipes and other mini-adventures. It's basically a virtual scrapbook of everything my husband, Kenneth, and I have enjoyed in the capital city! To make my blog easier to navigate, I've listed all of the places I've visited and will update this page regularly. If a place is listed but there is no active link, that's because I've visited, but I have not finished writing the blog post or sorting through photos.Enjoy!
Courtney
Craft Tutorials + How-Tos
- DIY Vanilla Extract
- Green Tutorial: Beaded Lucky Bamboo Bottle
- Green Tutorial: Large Jar Terrarium
- Green Tutorial: Wedding Terrarium
- How-To: Make A Cat Grass Head
- How-To: Make Christmas Card Globes
- How-To: Make Your Own Bobblehead Cat
Parks and Gardens
- Battelle Darby Creek
- Bruce Munro: Light at Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
- Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens
- Columbus Park of Roses
- Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Spring
- Goodale Park
- Hayden Falls Park
- Highbanks
- Inniswood Metro Gardens
- Old Man's Cave & Cedar Falls in Hocking Hills
- Prairie Oaks
- Sharon Woods
- Slate Run Historical Farm
- The Topiary Park
Festivals
Restaurants
- 16 Bit-Bar + Arcade
- Aab India
- Aladdin's Eatery
- Bob Evans
- Bravo! Cucina Italiana
- Buca di Beppo
- Cafe Istanbul
- Cap City Fine Diner and Bar
- C'est Si Bon Cafe
- Cherbourg Bakery
- Columbus Fish Market
- Cup O' Joe
- Depot Coffee House
- Dirty Frank's Hot Dog Palace
- Donatos
- Explorers Club
- Grass Skirt Tiki Room
- Harvest Pizzeria
- Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (Bexley)
- Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams (Grandview Heights)
- Kingmakers
- Krema Nut Company
- Luck Bros' Coffee House
- Mission Coffee Co.
- Moe's Southwest Grill
- Mozart's
- Noodles & Company
- North Market
- Northstar Cafe
- Panera Bread
- Pistacia Vera
- Pizza Rustica
- Pure Imagination Chocolatier
- Rusty Bucket
- Spagio
- Starliner Diner
- Stauf's Coffee Roasters
- Sunny Street Café
- Winans Fine Chocolates & Coffees
- Zpizza
Art, Educational and Cultural Institutions + Classes- Balletmet Columbus Presents Alice In Wonderland
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Columbus Flea
- Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main Branch)
- Columbus Museum of Art
- Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
- COSI - The Center of Science and Industry
- COSI & Flight of the Butterflies
- Create: An Etsy Craft Night w/Red Giraffe Designs at Whole Foods
- Cruzamentos! at the Wexner Center
- Dressed Pt.1: Body Cartography by Azmara Asefa
- Galentine's Night at Whole Foods
- Ohioana Book Festival
- Ohio State University Campus
- Public Art in Columbus
- Short North Murals + Public Art
- The Candle Lab in Grandview Heights
- The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes at COSI
- Urban Plein Air Paintings
- Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
- Wine and Canvas: Toulouse-Lautrec Edition at the Columbus Museum of Art
- Winter Wellness In A Jar at City Folk's Farm Shop
- A Very 1950s Holiday with the Ohio Historical Society at Whole Foods - Upper Arlington
- 201 Years of Stories & Stones Tour at Greenlawn Cemetery
- Halloween Lantern Walking Tour with Columbus Landmarks Foundation
- Ohio History Center
- Ohio Village
- Piqua Heritage Festival
Entertainment, Sports, Shopping, Theater, Music & Movies
- AMC Lennox Town Center 24 & The Heat
- Celebrate Local
- Columbus Blue Jackets
- Columbus Flea
- King Arthur and the Sword of Britain by the Actors' Theatre of Columbus
- Mumford Mania
- Ohio Pocket
- Scott Antique Market at the Ohio Expo Center
- Short North Window Shopping
- Skreened
- State of Devotion Apparel & Accessories
- The Home & Garden Show - Ohio Expo Center
- Water Fire & The Moonlight Market
- Westerville Mini Golf
Fitness + Health
- 16th Annual Mid-Ohio JDRF Promise Ball to Raise Money for Type 1 Diabetes Research
- Columbus Marathon
- Exercises for the Family – Hiking
- Exercises for the Family – Yoga
- Yoga Class with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman-Yee
Other
