Beachland — Euclid border

E. 222nd almost on Lakeshore Blvd.

Progress is slow on this one.

E. 185th

Near Lake Erie, the border of Cleveland and Euclid is East 185th. They have been torn up the street, there is the massive storm water construction nearby, they have finally re-opened a highway exit; but for years the street has deteriorated. Many lots and storefronts are vacant, and the nature of the businesses has changed. Ethnic demographic change is part of that. There are on going attempts to continue. One method that has appeared in many places is good and colorful murals and signage.

This is part of a long horizontal mural. Nearby there is a Jamaican restaurant. The car signage is nearby, on the Cleveland side of the street.

pumpkins have landed in Euclid

The brave aviator is flying his Sopwith Camel. Many Lake Erie midges have landed on him, and all around.

Did Charlie get a rock again?

Parma has skeletons

2019 Miscellany #10

The American purple gallinule is a swamp hen, a rail. The adult colors are almost peacock like. Their normal habitation is between Buenos Aires and Tallahassee. Of all the rails, this one has the greatest amount of vagrancy; and if not so, i would have never seen. This fellow was fifteen feet away , and in dense vegetation. He was quite furtive, in and out, top and bottom. Entertaining, and many quick poses. My camera does not have a view finder, and the sunlight was coming at me. I could see the subject quite easily, i could not find him in the camera. From seventy shots, i had three that were useful, one was an extended leg with claws. This juvenile had gathered a small throng of admirers in Lorain Impoundment.

 Fiberglass snake sculpture North Chagrin Reservation

 Photographing a very new nuclear family at Squire's Castle

 Great blue heron at North Chagrin Reservation

 St. Joseph Lorain extinguished March 2010, still for sale.

And he had a bobbly Jesus in white robe on his dashboard.

 These four fotos show some autumn color, yesterday, at Mentor Veterans Park.

photographs of abandoned places #22

Burned church in Lorain

Saturday, 10th of November 2018, a fire began in the basement, and eventually the roof fell. The fire department declared it a total loss, and recommended demolition. It was still standing yesterday, in the same condition as the day the fire ripped through.

The church was the first Lutheran church in Lorain. The commemoration stone says U.A.C. 1900-1923. A note i read, reads they occupied the church from 1924 to 1968. It has most recently been occupied by a Spanish speaking Pentecostal congregation of less than a score. "U.A.C." is Unaltered Augsburg Confession, and a protest against Samuel Simon Schmucker, who was the president of Gettysburg Seminary and wanted American Lutheranism to be more Calvinist, like some of the revivalists in other American Protestant groups.

 

 The notching of the door was done by chainsaw.

This reminds me of a Hitchcock movie.

The pulpit is in the centre right. The pews looked to have accommodated 96.

woof woof

Doom Service  ·  Breakfast in Dread

The main dish is named "Schnitzel"

Spooky Pooch Parade #12 Lakewood Ohio 

Several annual events i have made repeated postings, see and click [2013], [2015], [2016], [2017], [2018]. Maria's Field of Hope, sunflowers in Avon.

 Some of the cuter, and clever costumes are with small dogs.

Husband and Woof

 

Humour

Addams Family with Gracie as Cousin It

Doggy Yoga

 

Loodoo the Greyhound, doggius speedius, with a sssl..o...th jockey

Karma (right) and stranger sizing each other up

'splainin' something to an attentive charge

...and in front of the nearby Masonic temple

neat signs