2025 Miscellany #10 — summer is near

Newly painted public art on Broadview in Old Brooklyn Cleveland.

The lift is still there. These two are a pair.

Very nearby, on Broadview. (front of building seen here click)

Red tailed hawk visiting St. Sava Parma.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam  (To the Greater Glory of God)
St. Procop extinguished 24 August 2009. (Hound posing for scale)

Edgewater Beach, 2 days after big rain caused sewer overflow to dump in lake. Red flag means no swimming (because of e. coli).

Some more fotos from Saturday [click]: These are dangerous days

Don't Make me repeat myself  — History

Carl Beckman posing with a disinterested Karma. Both were with crowd, and not at Orange Caligula's birthday party.

That boy ain't right!

Stop trying to make fascism happen

Only you can prevent fascist liars 

“noxious weeds”

 

Cleveland Scene [Mark Oprea] had an article about a woman growing a beautiful garden in an old neighbourhood in Cleveland. The kind of garden that other towns would give an award to. Cleveland has repeatedly fined her for “noxious weeds”. I snapped these two fotos yesterday morning before noon in strong sunlight.

I can think of two causes for the citation. One is an overzealous prick using his office to inflict punishment. The other is someone of connections who does not want the flowers there, or does not like the gardeners. Either way, it is an injustice.

Returned this morning, with an older camera, and underneath a cloudy sky.

Inspector Greyhound approved of the conditions of the flora.

Really, is this not a small joy to walk past?

No Kings in Parma O. — Ω ☨

Bunch of places to be.  Guessed Parma's Rally for Democracy would have easy access. Turnout was impressive.  Parma said, "Democracy yes, Kings no, Fascism no".

 Ridgewood Drive. Parma. O.

Resistance is not futile

Here is one of many clever and creative signs, "The Germans ignored it. Don't You!!".

Hillary and Kamala would be good presidents, especially compared to Orange Caligula.

A corner of Ridge and Ridgewood is Parma's City Hall. Going west on the south side is a mall. East side has a bank, a public park, and houses. It was a very peaceful crowd. Someone had a megaphone and sang the National Anthem, and later from Les Miserables, Do you hear the people sing? There was rain early on.

a well quoted umbrella

 Let's Go Taco

Freedom from Fear

And there were humourous tee shirts.

referring to the pedophile in chief

Sometimes it is necessary to punch a nazi.

Gymnasium glass

One day in July while walking with my hound, we stopped in a church parking lot. The building was being remodeled, and subdivided. Through some parts of windows, the stained glass on the other side was partly visible. I could see Catholic saints in a Protestant church.

Early evening yesterday i was inside the former Trinity Lutheran Lakewood, now a gym. Some windows were clear glass, and eight were overly busy stained glass windows. The large choir window had been replaced. I had forgot it was a Lutheran churchh, and was thinking Anglican/Episcopal. They had two smaller Catholic windows, two Protestant, and four general Christian. The Catholic windows were the least busy. One was of missionaries to northern and eastern Europe; the other of early theologians, with the curious addition of Origen. That might be the first time, i have seen him in ecclesial art. If he wasn't depicted, i would say Early Church Fathers or Doctors. Well, Origen was earlier than they. Matthew xix. 12 speaks of eunuchs "some have made themselves so for love of the kingdom of heaven".  Origen reportedly became one.

Origen of Alexandria *c. 185,  c. 253†

St. Jerome, translator of the Bible; St. Ambrose, Latin Christian hymnody

St. John Chrysostom, and i don't know why St. Augustine of Hippo writing to sheep.

The peek of a colorful window seen in July.

The entire window before a fully clouded sky, seen after 7.30 pm. The quality of light matters.

 

One window was of a proto-reformer, Wycliffe; and three prominent reformers or heresiarchs:  Luther, Calvin, and Simons. Have seen several combinations, but never with Henry VIII Tudor.  Another with Americans, some obscure, some listed by name only, and Jefferson, and Madison.

2025 Miscellany #9 — mid-spring

Cardinal Playground Cleveland Heights O

Box 5 of beheaded owls for Parade the Circle

Butcher retired.

Being surveilled.

Third update on  Dayz Whun's mural in Cleveland. 17 May

Braiding daisy crowns.

Quaker ladies, azure bluets, houstonia caerulea; these were growing on a cliff.

2025 Miscellany #8 — Parade of the blimps

The last time Democrats had a say in Ohio politics was in 2010, and not much for twenty four years before. Ohio has become a corrupt southern state in those four decades plus. Primary and special elections are held whenever the party so chooses. On occasion, a ballot issue generated by the electorate succeeds, the Repukes often choose to dilute or ignore the new law. Of course, it is a different issue if the party and/or moneyed interests want an issue. So this year the primary was 6 May, and this was posted before entering the polling station. Repuke propaganda has invented the spectre of illegal voting. This year the ballot was very short on voting choices, my ballot was completed by filling in two circles. For that the wily, sneaky, foreign menace would risk punishment by a viciously focused punitive political conviction promoting Republican propaganda. [foto:JZ]

The Cleveland Art Museum has an annual Parade the Circle parade in mid-June. They have set up a workshop tent to work on materials. One is free to observe the working process. This year the theme is the snowy owl. These ballet slippers will decorate dress costumes

giant eight string guitar

On 3 June 1925, to celebrate the centennial of Akron Ohio the Goodyear rubber company had the inaugural flight of their first blimp/airship/dirigible. 3 June [Tuesday] they had three blimps take off from the shore base on Wingfoot Lake. This was open for public viewing from Mogadore State Park at Wingfoot. We got there a little late, as we saw them leaving

After walking our greyhound, and meeting other dogs at the park, we saw them further on the road we had travelled. They made a turn around over us at a donut shop parking lot. A fourth blimp has its home in Germany, and did not cross the ocean.

The blimp stationed here had a jacket similar to the 1925 model. The fotos are a little milky from the Canadian smoke of burning forests of the Canadian west.