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

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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