2020 Miscellany #14

 

                                                           gingerbread scare in Parma 

This fellow does Hallowe'en construction on his front lawn. This year it is a gingerbread house, mit keinem Hansel und Gretel. Aber die Hexe? He has three, maybe borrowed from MacBeth, cooking around a cauldron to the left (unpictured).

dappled light falling on Sharon conglomerate in Ritchie's Ledges, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

                                                              Overlook of the Ledges

The park was designated as a National Recreation Area in 1974, and a national park in 2000. But, there were already parks within the area before. A good deal of building was accomplished by the Civilian Conservation Corps under President Franklin Roosevelt, who had to deal with Hoover's Depression which caused great unemployment and suffering. Here, and there, are markers speaking to the situation. So many of the projects undertaken under Roosevelt are still being used. Truly, the United States would be bereft of much useful progress that occurred under Roosevelt's administration. Many things built after his time are gone. Roosevelt was a builder, today we have a destroyer as president.

Wildwood State Park, Neff Road, Cleveland

 

Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Bicycle rack in Lincoln Park Cleveland is useful, and more elegant than a very expensive structure a little ways off [click].

West 11th Street bridge over I-490