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

2026 Miscellany #14 — animal blessings, Hallowe'en lawns, vote

a stage/foto-op of a Model T Ford

In Cleveland on Clinton betwixt W.65 & W.58 they decorate for Hallowe'en. I heard it was the 6th year, it began in the 2nd year of covid, so that neighbours could meet outdoors. This 1st weekend of October local theatre arranged small skits played on some lawns.

A tree lawn was a sunflower bed.

We were walking on W. 65 by Clinton to see the Hallowe'en stuff.  Residents were doing it up yearly since the covid times. There were grave markers, this one was for the F4 tornado that blew through town. Within feet there was a Jehovah Witness pop-up colporter stand. They severely frown upon Hallowe'en.

Sunday was St. Francis of Assisi, there were many formal blessings of animals around the world. At St. Francis de Sales Parma, of course there were dogs, and there was two rabbits, two goats [Pancake supra], a cat.  Karma met two other greyhounds (Scorpion & Swamp], she is always happy to meet those of her tribe.

Edgewater Beach Cleveland. September 27.

Make them pay!

Tim Misny is a lawyer in Northern Ohio, for some years now he has advertised on billboards. When he did teevee, his catch phrase was“I’ll make them pay”.

end of summer fotos

Eduardo Kobra and three assistants painted four musicians (Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and Wanda Jackson) during the first half of September to create Cleveland's largest mural. He has painted over 3,000 murals, including the world's largest mural for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.  He is from São Paolo and he paints around the world.  He has 19 in New York City, Louis Armstrong in New Orleans, Bob Dylan in Minneapolis. Most are photographic portraits with a bright kaleidoscopic overlay.

Stamy Paul of Graffiti HeArt brought Kobra to Cleveland to do a mural.

For several summers Cleveland Zoo has had Asian [Chinese] Lantern displays up. Thanks to trump, this year's version was greatly inferior in number & diversity & quality.  I snapped this after some of the displays were being taken.  They were also short on dragons.  I tilted the camera to get this angle.

Goldenrods are so bright and rich in color when in bloom, and attract many insects.  I remember having goldenrod tablets in grade school, perhaps they were a Woolworth's purchase.  I hear some people do not like goldenrod.

It was drizzly in Hudson, sunlight was weak, picture not well framed.   1917 Tiffany Transfiguration from St Paul Episcopal will be at Peg's Gallery for most of the rest of 2026.  It had been at Akron Art Museum for a lengthy visit.

Barberton Sasquatch bench

Barberton business has three walls painted with mostly 1950s & 60s movie & television memories.

"Danger Will Robinson" in Barberton