commercial street art, and lawn decorations

 

part of an expeditionary force landed in Bay Village

In Lakewood O, a giant Frida Kahlo on the side of a Mexican restaurant. I wondered how many self portraits she painted. Read one answer from a search engine: 55 from 143 paintings. Don't know if this one is a copy, or a composite.She appears more handsome than in her works. It is good, that, it is sans unibrow (synophrys), and mustaches.

 in Parma

 

Covid Hallowe'en High on Wolf

skeletons mark the season, but many are far more funny than fearful

 overpriced bitter coffee, and still asleep

other yards also had decorated figures, and signs

these two were in the same yard

signs of democracy

Wednesday, i went to see an egret that had been sighted a few times in Avon. As happened many times, i never saw the bird i came to see. I continues on to Bay Village, Rocky River, and Lakewood to see the homeless Jesus statue, and lawn decorations. There were some loud, extravagant, and vicious Trump political signs and displays. Other than the standard placards for Biden/Harris, there were funny anti-Trump signs, and thoughtful ones that were at the same time anti-Trump and pro-Biden. No bird, but four posts. This is the third.

All of these were on Wolf, or almost on Wolf in Bay Village O.

The voters for Biden appeal to humanity. They will mock the pompous, and horrible Trump. The trumpster enthusiast wants to display dominance, anger, and viciousness. One Trump sign is often joined by more on the same property, and with flags, and banners. The owner is not there as you pass by, but he is yelling at you. I have seen, but not photographed signs that read, "Trump 2020, F#$% your Feelings".

 

Jesus, homeless again

This made the national news, and Saturday Night Live. Twenty minutes after the travelling art showed up, the police came. A phone call was made, and the priest was interviewed by teevee reporters. He spoke that he thought the caller, and the police were concerned. The statue has a plaque, and a yard sign with a phone scanning graphic. The original is bronze. This copy is a lightweight material painted, and some of the paint has faded away, appearing almost bird poopish. [click for two years ago]

The church property is adjacent to a Bay Village park and recreation area. Here is a mail box not taken away by the Trump administration.

humourous sign, how many dogs smoke?

trumpwe'en,

  or front yard of a trumpster with money

The blue is both lake and sky. Rocky River is a well to do west side suburb. Lake Road has some mansions on it. This property sold for more than $3 million in 2005. This display is like an abandoned section of an amusement park, crossed with a mad resident living in a trailer. A local teevee station (WOIO) sensationalised a very minor incident, two girls came at night with an egg carton. An aggressive neighbour pursued them, and the teevee reporter called the attempted egging a crime of vandalism.

While i was walking up the sidewalk, a car turns into the driveway. A man walks to the exhibits, and a woman snaps photographs of him. Here he is about to put a trump cap on the effigy. It was the first one he went to, and i suspect is a favorite of the deplorables

This looks like the Texaco man with the star. The pitchman used to have a big red star on his cap. After WWII, some people escaped Eastern European communism. Some were not pleasantly surprised. The big red stars on the gas stations looked ominous. Where did this huge dummy come from. The cap's insignia has changed from near soviet kрасная звезда, krasnaya zvezda, red star to the current fascist markings.  

He missed the one piece that was removed. There had been a toilet with a sign suggesting to place Biden votes in the bowl. See that is a difference between trumpsters, and democrats. Trumpsters are loud, and extravagant in their worship, and have no problem with vulgarity. They have don't have a sense of humour, they have a mean streak they substitute for humour. Some trumpster paraphernalia goes out of the way to be rude, obnoxious, and vulgar. I did see some to-day, but it is not worth posting. Now Trump does complain a lot about plumbing, and water flow, and flushing.

Kendall Lake

 

Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 by damming Salt Run created Kendall Lake. It is now part of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

2020 Miscellany #16

I have a weak camera. One shot it has not done well before is to capture a spider web. Here Dante provides.

Karma looks up into trees for squirrels.

exercising on the shore of Lake Erie

With covid, the Little League season was not.  See the grass on the sandlot.

 It is autumn, and the climbing ivy changes color. Broadview, Old Brooklyn, 27 September.

In the Greek Garden, there is this very fruitful tree. Much fruit is already fallen. It is sweet, but very bad. Ginkgo takes twenty years to fruit, and produces greatly. It is mildly toxic. When they fall, and get smashed, the stink stays until they wash away. Most people keep the male trees avoiding this.

 

Near the Italian Garden a walking group went for group portraits.

signs of the season

 

supra & infra were on the same lawn, and across the street from the one on top

 

For a long time women voted as their men did. The vote was based on social class. Things have changed recently. Women vote with the Democracy at a higher percentage. This year, it will be more pronounced. The Republicans are running a failed orange, shit slinging, howler monkey: a man (if the term could be used) with no morals, no decency, unethical to the extreme, a liar, a buffoon, a cowardly bully, a selfish monster, a racist, a rapist, a fraud, a con man, a criminal—and his party is fine with that. Trump is deranged, he is ignorant, and stupid. He is vicious, the one mental faculty he has is a certain reptilian slyness.

coronavirus hallowe'en

 CATCH IT!

Marija Lasic and Joshua Davis, with Austin Love of WKYC

Came to see the lawn art installation, and the morning reporter wanted a picture and interview with me. The couple decorated for the season and included the current event that has engulfed the world, and especially this careless country.

 

This skeleton has a bottle of cleaning product, the one Orange Caligula suggested to swallow as a cure. When the orange howler monkey caught the virus he had his dumb ass helicoptered to a military hospital, and was treated with the most serious treatment available.

One humourous aspect early on was the shortage and hoarding of toilet paper.

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Again blogger has control of spacing.  It is their doing.

posing with greyhounds #2

Elf Leia (human Sam) with Cassius by the Ovid medallion in the Italian Garden

Mark was photographing Sam, and were enchanted by friendly Cassius.

Brandywine Falls

 

Brandywine Falls is part of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. There are sets of stairs, and a boardwalks leading to the falls. Supra, the walk is built to cling to the rock faces in spots.

Brandywine Falls is an 86 foot drop, and is considered as one of the most photogenic places of nature in Ohio. Brandywine Creek is a tributary of the Cuyahoga.

The flow is naturally dependent on rainfall. These pictures were taken on October 2nd, within 24 hours of  a rain fall.

Here, sunlight hits the top left corner of the falls, and a vein of rock dust is washed down.

The water meets the bottom in a white curtain of splash. This portion is like a little Niagara.