Bluffton's beauty and the beast: August and January

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We know...it's still warm out and trees are green. Tops are down on covertibles, shorts are the normal uniform of the day.

Here's a refresher course on Ohio winters, in case you've forgotten. In a strange sense, this Main Street January 2014 photo has some beatiful qualities: blue haze of a sunset, Christmas ornaments on light poles and Jack Frost. If we could only remove the temperature from the equation.

Below are comparision photos from August to December - same view.