Memorial Day 2019

 iris in bloom

To-day was sunny and temperate, a good day to be out to see a parade. Strongsville is one of Cleveland's larger suburbs, and not poor. The parade was good, but very short, about the shortest i've ever seen. Went in the back of St. Joseph's. The high school band was practicing. It was a large parking lot. There did not seem to me more than four other units.

Traffic was light, but a lot of people were on motorcycles. This fellow stopped at Calvary Cemetery Cleveland.

 These bikers were in Parma.

Parma's new sign was official Saturday, and the public added little pink flamingos. The plastic lawn ornaments are meant to be humorous, and they are, and they improve the installation. Karma (L) and Cassius(R) were blasé.

 graffiti old style in a bus shelter

 in Fairport Harbor

 The sun sparkled and reflected off the domes of Parma's St. Josaphat Ukrainian.

mid May

Music of Louis Vierne. house concert. May 17th.

Blessing of St. John Paul II statue, on his birthday, May 18th. Cleveland Cultural Gardens.

May 19th on the perimeter of the Asian Festival. East 30th Cleveland.

very clever dragon

 10th Cleveland Asian Festival

Well, if i have not noted before, the Dragon Dance is worth seeing.  This is the second event in Cleveland that is tops to see [the other St. Rocco's greased pole climb].

  dragon knows geometry, or 2 of diamonds

  

2019 Miscellany #4 church

Messiah Lutheran. Fairview Park Ohio. Winterich Studio. 1987. 

In their main worship space they have seven large windows that follow the liturgical year. Here is the bottom portion of their Lent window, which symbolises the Eucharist. The Pelican is Jesus who offered his Body and Blood.
I am interested in stained glass, and churches are the usual place to find it. Much contemporary glass is uninspiring, this glass, and their huge 1999 lobby glass is worth seeing.

part of the lobby glass

Thistles are a symbol of Scotland. Church of the Covenant Presbyterian Cleveland

Church of the Covenant Presbyterian Cleveland

 

  Church of the Covenant Presbyterian Cleveland

Church of the Covenant Presbyterian Cleveland

Pilgrim Congregational U.C.C. Cleveland

2019 Miscellany #3 birds

green heron, Beaver Marsh, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

same

brown headed cowbirds, Bath Ohio

blue wing teal ducks, Sandy Ridge Lorain Metroparks

white heron (great egret), Sandy Ridge Lorain Metroparks

"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery..."

Verdi's Requiem

Libera Me from Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem at the first Temple Tifereth-Israel Cleveland on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a beautiful performance by City Music Cleveland Thursday night. Y'no Verdi also wrote an anvil chorus, although he did not ever score for coughing audience. The performance was otherwise uninterrupted for an hour and a quarter. It was serious music for a serious commemoration.

More than an hour before scheduled performance, this was a concert with anticipation. Not every day, does what was once the most prominent Jewish temple in the city have a Requiem Mass.

The sacred music began with cellos.

The conductor (James Gaffigan) pointed out the percussion section for recognition in Verdi's Requiem. The bass drummer was dressing and undressing his drums with black cloths.

One pair of trumpeters on the corner of the balcony, and another pair in the other far corner played during a section of the score.

At times, the conductor and instrumentalists were in a fury of motion and sound.

2019 Miscellany #2

to-day is May 3rd

Small vignette of a large window at Immaculate Heart of Mary Cleveland, Polish nationhood is entwined with Catholicism

May 3rd is a national holiday in Poland, and in some cities in America there are parades marking it. That day in 1791 saw a national constitution after thirty-two months of preparation; it lasted less than nineteen months. Poland was absorbed by three empires in 1795. The constitution was a political ideal for the nation until independence in 1918.

while walking in downtown Columbus, this needed to be photographed

recording a concert at St. Stanislaus Cleveland

 the Old Immaculate Conception of Mary, Grafton Ohio

 they build the wall of very local sedimentarystone

 inside Saint Vitus Cleveland gym for Kurentovanje (pre-lenten festivity)

some instruments are beautiful, just to see, Anna O'Connell's harp of orphaned wood

   grackle

 great blue heron, Tuscarawas River bank

 within Cuyahoga Valley National Park