Evening bike ride

Thursday
The temperatures warmed up quite nicely today under mainly sunny skies, despite the forecast calling for more cloud cover. I went swimming early afternoon, but was still tempted by the sunshine to go out for a bike ride on the Little Miami trail when Roger got home - the things I will do to get out of doing housework! We started in Loveland, where I started my walk yesterday, but with it being after work for most people and given the warmer temperatures, it was a much more popular place today. We saw three deer again, in more or less the same spot, so I assume they were the same three, but they weren't as photogenic this evening, and in any case the light wasn't so good. We also saw three turkey vultures at one point, initially on the side of the trail, then they flew up into a tree and sat on the same branch for a while, but unfortunately those pictures didn't turn out too well either since this was on the return journey and the sun was going down by this point. So for my blip I chose this collage of an old farmhouse and it's accompanying historical marker against the background of the setting sun. The historical marker, which has appeared in our absence, reads,

" Butterworth Station was the southernmost stop on the Underground Railroad in Warren County. Built in 1820 it was the home of Benjamin and Rachael Moorman Butterworth. As Quakers and abolitionists who opposed slavery in their home state of Virginia, they purchased 1500 acres along the Little Miami River and moved to Ohio in 1812. Until almost 1850 at great personal risk, the family fed and sheltered large numbers of runaway slaves before transporting them to the next station. When the Little Miami railroad was built in the 1840's, Henry Thomas Butterworth donated land and water and assisted with the construction. In appreciation the railroad created a stop here called Butterworth Station, and gave the family lifetime passes. On this site, a water tower with a passenger waiting area was built that served as a railroad water station for decades."