Saturday snap safari

The weekends, and major holidays in the morning are the best days to go out with a camera. Above is the very recently planted water tower on top of the building that is going to be cop central.

Driving further into downtown Cleveland, Mona wants you to smile.

window washing?

reflection of Terminal Tower on the Sherwin Williams HQ

Rowing on the Cuyahoga, with a view of grass planting on Irishtown Hill.

The last panel of a series of murals on Walton by Ariel Vergez.

San Juan on Clark, have passed by his many times. First time without a car parked.

scaffolding around old St. Michael's School

you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

 

Leo XIV vs. Donald the Demented

Leo being Catholic

 in Satan's service, the dumbest apprentice

Last night Deranged Donnie issued two disturbing posts on his vanity twitter.  One was an attack on Pope Leo XIV, in which as he typically does, he thoroughly misrepresents [LIES] about his victim of abuse. The next one was a computer generated image where he has replaced Jesus in performing a miracle.

Will such items cause his religious supporters to fall away from continued support?  I would say, not by much. Many of those supporters hate Catholicism with an absolute maniacal vengeance, and in their churches they have raised up Demented Donnie to a godlike figure already.

Now what about "Catholic" trumpsters?  Their easy out is simple, we only have to follow the pope in severely limited instances, when he is speaking on faith and morals, or when he speaking "ex cathdedra" [which has happened only twice].  Of course Leo is speaking out against war, but to these people that does not qualify as speaking on faith and morals. Leo is echoing Jesus in the New Testament, but that is immaterial. Some of them will equate such an opinion with all the accusations leveled by those that hate the papacy a priori.   Leo is being like Pius XII with nazism, or with popes who encouraged the Crusades. Strange bedfellows in shared hate and calumny, but whatever it takes.  Some of these trumpsters are just as racist as Donnie, or like his mercenary capitalism, but others are monomaniacal anti-abortionists. Every repuke gets an absolute pass because those partei members mouth the mandatory shibboleths. The light of reason will not shine on them. The first rule of Catholic ethics is: the ends never justify the means. They do not believe that, and so in the most vigorous manner.

Some would consider this blasphemous, but how many will become former trumpsters?

three papal tweets above

These sort of statements set off Orange Caligula.

Comparing the two men, which one is following Jesus?

What if Caligula had atomic bombs?

• Firstly, we know he is evil and insane.
• His first sentence here threatens genocide, perhaps through nuclear strikes.
• Three generals have been recently fired. he wanted revenge against Congressmen, who said do not follow immoral orders.
• How can these war crimes be stopped?
• Surely, their prevention was simple: not voting for him (or his party).
• To-day is Easter Tuesday. There were supposed Christians who told people to vote for this abomination. They said he was pro-life [sic]. Are they not gravely guilty of having sinned a great sin?
  
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Hudson O.

Karma & Perun visiting in late March find a rubber duck promotion.

 Door 2 Art Studio. The Wonder Within. 2021.

Peep, one of three duck balloons visiting for a month.

Scooter with butterfly

Sunny

good looking signage

James W.  Ellsworth  *1849, 1925†, town's most successful son and benefactor.

2026 Miscellany #4

A tom turkey failing to impress hens at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland.

A znamenja [sign, symbol] shrine at Saint Vitus Cleveland.  It will have four paintings, this is the first Marija Pomagaj Brežje.  Mary Help of Christians is the national Madonna of the Slovenes. The others are Bl. Anton Martin Slomšek, Ven. Frederic Baraga (Apostle to the Ojibwe), and a local priest who served two Slovene parishes in Cleveland.

organ pipes in stone, by an entrance at St. Vitus

Fire escape, can't think of another on a church.

It was warm on Holy Saturday [April 4]. Man and dog walking in Ukrainian Garden.

Passed this many times, there is a yard of chestnut trees. A buckeye is a horse chestnut.

daffodils of the most early spring during a lull in the yo-yo weather

Akron on Good Friday

Seminarian Alex inside of St. Bernard's central front door.

Praying by St. Joseph altar.

Holy Spirit clerestory window above high altar.

To-day we are in the 40 Hours of the Triduum, the most solemn time of the year. The tabernacle is empty, St. Bernard Akron.

Reflection of St. Anthony's outside on window of St. Filip Neri.

Prodeo is Latin, sometimes translated as go forth, advance.

North Main Street experiencing heavy construction.

Girl with Guitar. North Main, Akron.

two robots on an abandoned building  on North Main

Alfombras 2026

Karma enters to see the Alfombras.  My greyhounds have always been welcomed here. An artist finishes the last portion of the whole. We we were the first to see the complete work.

 

Los Alfombras de Semana Santa en La Sagrada Familia Cleveland están listos para ser pisados.

Cleveland is blessed to have a Meso-American community to share their sense of beauty, grace, and devotion of sanctity. 

Cleveland tiene la dicha de contar con una comunidad mesoamericana que comparte su sentido de la belleza, la gracia y la devoción por lo sagrado.

It is a tradition to have colorful carpets of flowers and sawdust to be processed over on Black Friday of Jesus's Passion.

Bad Bunny understood what Jesus taught.

Simple, clear, beautiful — i especially enjoyed this one. I heard it was done by Walter.

 Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Americas.

Holy Week carpet with palms

Jesus and his cross

The Lost Lamb made with cotton balls and in a patch of flowers.

Mary of Bethany wipes the feet of Jesus with her hair.

Michael defeats the Devil.