2025 Miscellany #3—w/ Lakewood

These garden ornaments have different names including 'gazing spheres', this one has the striation pattern of  a celestial sphere like Jupiter, but it was once Dottie's bowling ball. Gazing balls were mediæval, hollow blown glass. The 1960s version they were sometimes paired up with pink flamingos, and as shiny as chrome. A little exaggeration, chrome was the favorite car color in the 1950s. Don't type chrome in a computer search engine, you get garbage. You want chromium. Some study from the 1920s asserted the United States was self-sufficient in all but three items: coffee, rubber, and chromium.

A Tuesday evening in early April, Wade Lagoon, University Circle, Cleveland Art Museum. I was not the only shutterbug to promenade a hound. There was sun.

Monday of Holy Week, Ascension Episcopal, Lakewood O.

Solstice Steps, Lakewood O., a man and his 6 year old husky enjoying a warm midday at Lakewood Park.

Grayson

Canadian Geese in formation over the lake, seen from the steps.

Girls from nearby Lakewood Catholic Academy (formerly St. Augustine) leave the starting line.