In Ohio they like to name their waterfalls after beverages that start with B

In a sweet not-so-little suburban park near Cleveland called the North Chagrin Reservation, there is a delicate little waterfall called Buttermilk Falls. In a nearby park called Cuyahoga Valley National Park, there is a more robust waterfall called Brandywine Falls. Waterfalls don't have to be huge to be interesting. 😊

After my drive from Niagara Falls to Cleveland, I resolved not to spend the last few days of my trip on interstates driving down a bare channel between grass and trees that could be just about anywhere. On my trip East, I had wanted to visit Buttermilk Falls, but I had map and memory problems. I had discovered the park while working on Mo's computer, and I couldn't remember the name of the waterfall. Butterfield? Butterfly? Butterfinger? Try as I might, I couldn't recall "Buttermilk" and my phone's map software was not making any helpful guesses. So I gave up and took a walk by the shore of Lake Erie. While I was in Niagara Falls, I had a chance to sit down at a computer long enough to figure out the name of the waterfall, but even armed with that, my phone's map software had no idea where it was. The North Chagrin Reservation Visitor Center was known to my phone only as "Cleveland Metroparks." It looked like the right place on the map, so I told it to give me directions to it. Hooray -- it was right!

This is the first sight I saw when I stepped out of my van into mid-70's shade. Redbud, dogwood, cattails, and a pond:

A short walk brought me to the falls:

And here is the view above the bridge:

From there I drove to Solon, another suburb of Cleveland. I found a pretty good restaurant, but as it filled up and the live entertainment started so people had to yell louder to be heard, it became too loud for me and I fled as soon as I could after I ate. I went to the library to do some computer stuff and I kid you not -- they had live music at the library too! It was off in a meeting room and not terribly loud, but still... not what I expect of a library! So I drove back to Planet Fitness to use their wifi and park for the night. At least there the noise blends into the background better for me than a live band.

The next morning I charted a course for Brandywine Falls. There were several flights of steps and a wooden walkway built along the side of the rock face on the way down to the falls. I got there while a whole school busload of Mennonite kids were starting to head back to the bus. There were still a few stragglers down by the falls when I got there, but they left pretty quickly. It may have been a faux pas for me to pull out my phone to take pictures, but I was careful to clearly only photograph the falls and they did arrive in a motorized bus, and it is a public park, but they did leave awfully quickly after I got there...

Here are a couple of photos that show part of the walkway down to the falls:

And back up:

Here is a photo that shows most of Brandywine Falls:

To see and hear Buttermilk Falls in action, here's a short video I took: https://youtu.be/-GfLlOtaqs8

To see and hear Brandywine Falls in action, here's a short video I took: https://youtu.be/rP3AHGVRjQg  Sorry about the weird movement -- I had to move my body around to get a view of the entire expanse of the falls and it looks a bit odd. I'm having trouble coming up with a clever phrase to characterize how it looks. Any suggestions?