A Westerville OH electrical worker removes the last of city’s Christmas decorations from a light pole in Uptown.

A concrete worker removes a ladder from the basement where he and a crew had just completed pouring footers for a home under construction in Westerville, OH.

A light coating of snow covers the ground and farm implements outside the hay barn on Cleveland Ave. at Cooper Road in Westerville.

Storm clouds move across the sky over a windmill with its rudder vane closed for the winter.

U.S. Army Pfc. Josh Wholaver kisses the hand of his pregnant wife, Brittany, as he holds his two-year-old son, Nate, after returning from a tour in Afghanistan. Wholaver belongs to the 684th Medical Unit of the Ohio National Guard, a unit that had once operated out of the Armory in Uptown Westerville.

Westerville Animal Control Officer Kim Stambaugh consoles a dog retrieved from an apartment fire. The dog was uninjured in the afternoon fire although it required a great deal of attention to calm it down after it was removed from the fire scene.

The Japanese Tea House in Uptown Westerville is reduced to rubble Wednesday as the last building on the property is demolished. The abandoned buildings and shrine were demolished after the buildings fell into disrepair when it’s original owners died and new owner failed to maintain its condition. The property was purchased by the city which has yet to decide how to use the soon to be cleared land.

Large maple tree at water’s edge at Hoover Reservoir near Westerville Ohio was cut down after it was damaged during a recent wind storm.

A youngster runs his skateboard along a rail edge as he and a few friends  enjoy themselves at the Westerville, OH, skate park  the day after Christmas using the gifts they received on Christmas day.

Young girl photographs the Nativity scene in a creche at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Westerville, Ohio, on Christmas day. The masses on Christmas were the first to celebrate the birth of Christ in the new church.