Helios Project

Larry & Francine Johns gifted educational models and informative signs on the universe to Medina Ohio. The Helios Project opened to the public mid August 2023. It begins with a chrome like covered sun, with twelve culture graphics of the sun around it. I've been told not to look at the sun, this one was safe to be photographed.

Aztec

Saturn, the planets are scaled in size to the sun. The terrestrial planets are near marble sized, and Pluto is included. Some deterioration has occurred, Mercury's bead is gone, and a few stickers were added on some signs, and removed, leaving behind bits of strips, the Milky Way spiral is gone.

The path is about Champion Creek, and part of it is like a clean alley. Some of it comes up to railway tracks, some of it is between new apartment buildings, some of it passes electrical installations. Some streets, and bridges are crossed.  

A frisbee golf course intersects.

creek

Several cardinals were seen.

Wonder what this cage on the hydrant does.

Deer were visible throughout the walk.

The path for walking with or without doggy companions, and a path for the iron horse.

bluebird atop Roscoe Ewing Park sign

The path empties out to a residential street where a tin man monitors traffic.

USS Cleveland

Littoral Combat Ship USS Cleveland (LCS 31) as seen from Solstice Steps Lakewood.

Adam & Julia Wells brought a Don't Give Up the Ship flag.

The other flags were all the current national flag. If sailors had binoculars, they would be to distant to be seen, unless they were the real long, and heavy ones.

People wanted pictures, and some had good equipment.

For many it was another good reason to go to the park. I hazard to guess how many were there. The ship was scheduled for 10.30.  Before 10 the parking lots were filled, and people had already began to park at nearby city streets.  Some continued into the lots, not minding the number of cars leaving. So for some time, throngs of people marched across the park to glimpse the lake, and wait. When the ship did come it was near the horizon.

 

Difference between presidencies

Chagrin Falls Main Street, where the pumpkins roll.  This retaining wall was built by the WPA in 1938, eighty-years ago.  I have come across so much that was created during Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and much of it still stands.  On this it is not signed Franklin Roosevelt.  Orange Caligula is putting his name on everything he can think of, often enough garishly, and certainly undeservedly.  His monuments will not last so long.

Roosevelt's work left, bottom right not Roosevelt's.

2026 Miscellany #5 — Akron

green basilisk, Akron Zoo

Nepali Kitchen dragon hopefully will not soon be obscured.

Airship Akron welcomes you.

What image is being projected here?

utility box decal of  Peter Toth's  Rotaynah. [click]

2026 Miscellany #6

While walking the house wolves (they insist on daily walks) in the Cultural Gardens, we were in the Shakespeare Garden.  There was a light, cold rain. On this black sundial there was a thin layer of water.  Raindrops made continuing new ripples.  I found it calming, and aesthetic.  Since raining as it was, i had left my camera in the car's glove box.  My nephew has a camera on his mobile phone, and i asked him to take a few snaps. This was the good one, with a few digital enhancements it became what i had seen. [foto: JZ]

Not far away, there is this giant dogwood. It was in bloom and as tall as the house. The rain continues, and this was snapped through an open car window.

Went to Hemlock Trail by Tinker's Creek in the Metroparks to see Virginia Bluebells, and other ephemerals. Very few bluebells had opened, but did see this Canadian Tiger Swallowtail. In eyesight, the butterfly was more yellow than the foto has it.

Euclid Beach arch is coming along, 25 April.  It was lifted and moved to where a McDonald's had been.  It was stripped, and covered anew.

another edition of Tim Misny

Promises made, promises broken. 

Misny does some effective, and entertaining self promotion. He is no the only one that self promotes. There is one horrid, self hawking, howling orange shit gibbon, barking mad self promoter, who to the world's dismay is currently the President of the United States. He is human history's most frequent liar. A continuing series of lies he and his minions use is the motto, "Promises made, promises kept". Foto snapped on May Day. This lie was gasoline was going to be under two dollars. Thanx trump!

AMDG #∞

Saint Ignatius of Loyola offers/surrenders his sword in front of the statue of the Black Madonna, Our Lady of Montserrat.

This is a new bronze planted on the campus on the 9th of March. No attribution to the sculpture. St. Ignatius High School, was originally part of acollege. The college moved to Cleveland Heights, which also has a statue of the event [click].

Also on campus are bronzes representing the Seven Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy.  An eighth was added by Pope Francis in 2016, Care for our Common Home (Earth).  Francis was the the only Jesuit pope, and of course there is opposition amongst "conservatives" for him, and the addition.  The work above is Feeding the Hungry, the one below is Visiting the Prisoner.  Many "conservatives" object to them also, especially under the government we are subjected to now.

Sunday, time to wash the windows.

bricked window

The school has a fleet of identified vehicles, which include license plates that read AMDG##.

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam, For the greater glory of God. 

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem, For the greater glory of God and the salvation of humanity.

 —  Saint Ignatius

went to see a duck

Went to Cuyahoga Falls to see a sixty foot rubber duck balloon, it was deflated. It rained heavily on Thursday evening, we heard a wing was injured, Friday morning, the word was it would be up at 3 o'clock. Across the street there were smaller dux.

Karma looks at woman, woman looks at Karma for Stark State College.

Some saloons have elaborate decorations inside, this one also has them outside.

Many Mexican restaurants use colorful pictures/paintings that reflect culture. Here we have Mariachi esqueletos.

Ernest Angley came three months short of reaching a century. He died very nearly five years ago. He was a teevee preacher based in Akron/Cuyahoga Falls. [click]  He was entertaining to many.  His southern Pentecostal  manner was easily mocked, and was by Johnny Carson, Robin Williams, and Genesis with Phil Collins. [click] Looks like his ministries continue. They did have scandals known to the public.

Earth Day clean up

Several dogwoods are in the Cultural Gardens to the north of Superior.

April 22nd was Earth Day, Friday was Arbor Day, and Saturday was clean up day  of winter litter.  Estonian Garden

German Garden

Germans' class picture

A few weeks ago, a storm came through damaging trees. The Bach statue was hit. Years earlier, a part of a Beethoven monument was taken, that was theft. This was an accident of nature.

Perun in the Hebrew Garden