Miscellany #17

Lock 3 Akron Park on Main Street (once part of the Ohio-Erie Canal before the Easter Day Flood 1913)

black squirrel, Lakewood Park

Dog emerging from Lake Erie, Edgewater Beach.

Work to restore St. Theodosius Cleveland domes, Saturday 31 October.  Copper flashing being applied.

vaguely similar to a pagoda roof

Color of the leaves necessitates leaving a bench to photograph.

Chakaia Booker. Transit. 2026. Akron.  

17' of Goodyear racing tires & Stainless steel. $550,000🤣🤣🤣.

Front corner of old Polsky's store with initials of University of Akron seen through a cut out of the sculpture.

Someone really needs a P. Some while ago the fence was hit again, and most of the damage was taken care of, except one missing letter.

Golden Retriever papoose, also Lakewood Park

Indian & Mercury or Nickel & Dime

One of several reliefs on the two columns of the former 1920 Ohio Saving &Trust Co. The building behind it, Goodyear Hall, still has a huge lighted Goodyear sign on the roof. Akron had several teams named the Indians. Mercury's sandals were a logo for Goodyear Tire. The Mercury dime was minted from 1916 to 1945, but it was not the god Mercury, but a young winged Liberty. The Buffalo/Indian nickel was minted from 1913 to 1938.

Red Maples of Medina

on one street

 

Posing with Greyhounds #16, 2026 Miscellany #16

Missy & Chris, a couple who likes each other, greyhounds & Hallowe'en.  They were pleasantly surprised that our greyhound is 'Karma'. 

Dinowe'en in Parma

Cubano coffee in Old Brooklyn

cement goose dressed for the big night

experimenting in Old Brooklyn

Miss Almira Gulch did not like dogs, and then...

Oberlin has art too

In Slaughterhouse-Five, "so it goes" is said after every death.

Gifford Doxsee taught Middle East History at Ohio University. Doxsee was a very polite man, open, and friendly man.  On the first day of class, he introduced himself. The clam juice company was his family's. He thought grade inflation was a problem. He had taught at the American University of Beirut.  Since news coverage in America was local beyond real importance, everyone in the class would be subscribed to the Christian Science Monitor.  He went to the Episcopal church that was surrounded by the campus, and next door to a restaurant, on top of Morton Hill.  He would tell his classes, Vonnegut was true. They had been prisoners of war together in Dresden.

In Oberlin, by the post office (built under FDR & the New Deal), and the library, both very near campus, there is a mural with bicyclists riding on a main street. Saw this detail within the mural, a movie poster of Charlie Chaplin's A Dog's Life 1918. 

A large multi-scene mural is on a wall that faces a large shared parking lot adjacent to campus. This is a portion. Oberlin has some albino squirrels, and a music conservatory.

On the entrance to Fairchild Chapel/Bosworth hall there is a quote from Esdras: [Women are strongest:] but above all things Truth beareth away the victory — 1 Esdras 3.12,  Greek Esdras, Esdras A.  This is canonical in the Orthodox churches; in Catholic churches it is part of Pseudepigrapha; and among Protestants it is part of the Apocrypha. 

In that same parking lot mentioned earlier, there is an empty Thai restaurant, with three murals. I suppose they served chicken, but dragon?

Great Lakes Surfing Mecca

Edgewater Beach Cleveland. Saturday, 17 October 2026.

By the time i came, the surfer dudes were mostly leaving. 

water intake crib background left, lake freighter, surfer

Friday had a lot of rain, a temperature drop, and wind gusts.

camera man in camouflage 

2026 Miscellany #15 — October fotos

Riders lined up for fotos by the sign.

Parma

public garden art decoration

as seen from Edgewater Park Cleveland [supra&infra]

 

Sunday's ride to the script sign

9th annual Ride the Beach

Horses under the willows, Edgewater Beach 

These fotos were taken Friday.  Friday, Saturday & Sunday once a year Cleveland Metroparks Mounted Unit holds a fund raiser.

Yo, somebody missing?

phone addiction

intake water crib, motorised surfer, park ranger & children

Brody on the dog beach, adjacent to the main beach

Meeting Rock on Amadeus, center.

man and his friend