one of these my least brethren

Community West Foundation has bought 5 bronzes of Timothy Schmalz's sculptures of the Gospel of Matthew's "as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me".  The first one is at (the former)Blessed Sacrament on Fulton, bought by Bay Presbyterian for a new congregation. I read it was put in place 28 June.

previous posts on these [click 1], [click 2], [click 3] .

Someone placed a coin in Jesus's hand.  “When I was in Prison”

Homeless Jesus - St. Malachi Parish
When I Was Sick - Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital
When I Was in Prison - Bridge CLE (formerly Family Ministry Center)
When I Was a Stranger - The Refugee Response at Urban Community School
When I Was Naked - Malachi House
When I Was Hungry and Thirsty - Old Stone Church

https://www.communitywestfoundation.org/matthew25collection

ornamentation and remodel

The left angel is holding volume IV, Education Wisdom; the right angel has volume V, School Public. Now, this ornament is a year stone for George Washington School on Lorain in Cleveland. On a busy day, after i received a Pfizer shot for the plague virus, i saw this from the car. There was moving traffic in the lot, i thought i would come back when school was not in session. I was wrong. Being impressed with the stone work, i wanted to come back with a camera. Some time passed, and i forgot when i saw this, but it was on Lorain in West Park. Could not find it three times, and then thought maybe not Lorain in Cleveland, and tried other avenues in Lakewood, Rocky River, Fairview Park. On a search engine, i found someone else's picture with an address. How could i have missed it? There is a very busy national chain coffee and donut shop in front of it, where here must have been a lawn leading up to the building. I came and chanced my life behind the shop in the drive through lane, which was backed out into the street. The other ornamentation was good too.

Doors and steps were removed. 

around University Circle and elsewhere

St. Elias' Day just passed on the 20th. As i have mentioned, i like stained glass. Parma Lutheran Church has a few large windows with Christian symbols in the expanse of colored glass. Here is a minimalist (and effective) display of he fiery chariot that took Elias (Elijah) to heaven.

One of the great spots to stroll with the hounds is in front of Cleveland Art Museum. Often people are posing for fotos. Here is one for a group think.

Fenway Hall (1923) is the last of five hotels on what was Doan's Corners (Euclid Avenue E. 105-7).

Cathedral Latin was a Catholic High School that was closed in 1979. The cornerstone was laid in 1917. John Farrelly was bishop, and he planned to have a new cathedral in University Circle. A boys high school was to be modelled after Boston Latin School. The Marianists staffed the school from 1922. Cleveland Diocese sold the property to the state, the school was demolished in 1981. The property became the site of W.O. Walker Industrial Rehabilitation during 1984-9, which became C building of Cleveland Clinic (and University Hospital) in 1995. The entrance arch has been in the lobby since its opening.

22 July 1796 Moses Cleaveland debarked at the Cuyahoga. In 1946 to celebrate the anniversary, a survey of trees were made of trees alive when Cleaveland landed. Some 22 are still up and hearty, about half are white oaks. This one is on Torrington in Parma.

 

photographs of abandoned places #31, #8

 Westinghouses, west and east

Was thinking, i was running out of  major abandoned places around Cleveland to picture. Well, on the Shoreway (Route 2) just before the Edgewater exit there is this eight storey building marked Westinghouse on the terminus of West 58th. Years ago, listening to traffic broadcasts, it was frequent to hear cars bunching up at the Westinghouse curve. Recent report has the building to become a hotel and apartments. Cleveland has a hell of a lot of reports about possible future construction (or as they like to say, 'development'). Well maybe on this one, but do not gamble on it; and you cannot at the promised Gilbert second casino downtown.

 

Westinghouse, west side

 

Westinghouse, east side 19 January 2013

Westinghouse, east side 5 March 2018

and so the hounds had a rendezvous

class picture: Northeast Ohio Greyhound Walking Group

Sunday morning there was scheduled a meeting of local greyhounds at Lake Isaac Middleburg Heights.  The lake is a glacial pothole, and part of Cuyahoga Metroparks. It also a wildlife sanctuary. I have gone there before to see noted bird migrants. The last time, the celebrity bird had flown before i arrived (a common occurrence).

When this started in 2017, it was to be monthly. Some winter days scheduled were cancelled because of very inclement weather. Then the virus came in March 2020. This was the first we have been to since the onset of the plague. It was great for Karma. Since we, and other people, and their dogs were hesitant to meet, Karma was aggressive to dogs who came in view. This convocation of hounds calmed her. She was pleased to be able to sniff and greet. Cassius, also, was in good spirits. There were ticks picked up during the walk.

In the past, Karma really wanted to be in the lead. To-day, she was satisfied to be in the peloton.

I am always interested in the names of hounds. Often hounds are given better names than many people. I heard the names of Puma, Clancy, Barkley, June Bug, Jag, and Mercury again. Some new names were: Apollo, Balder, Mr. Lover, Hannibal, Oslo, [Kawa]saki. Others names we missed. A final census, without names, was nineteen greyhounds.

The greyhounds were happy to be in the company of other greyhounds, and people were happy to be in their presence. This is Karma standing behind the girl.

2021 Miscellany #12

One of two black swans at Chestnut Hill Cemetery. There is a spring fed pond there with resident non-native fowl, local mallards, and sometimes migrants.

Driving by on State Road, and saw this great painted truck.

The last open Arthur Treacher's restaurant is also on State in Cuyahoga Falls. It and a nearby McDonald's were advertising for labor. Recently, the other Treacher's in Garfield Heights closed. The old lamp sign was no longer there, and the parking lot was full of chuck holes. Many of the large fast food chains of the 1960s, and '70s are gone.

Karma in the shade of Mary Campbell's Cave in Gorge Summit Metropark in Akron. Her apple green leash has disappeared in the color and shade.

inside the Rock Hall, a painted piano

inside a barber shop on Lorain, in Cleveland

 

2021 Miscellany #11

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America

Y'no, i mentioned greyhounds before, the wonderful animals. A bus company uses them as their logo. Cleveland Greyhound Bus station has been in the same spot for some time. It is an unfriendly place, there is not the happiness and lightness of Paul Simon's lyrics. I walked into the place, the other night. The first time in over thirty-five years. I wanted a foto of the flying greyhound. I was kicked out in under thirty seconds. The place was cluttered, and not unclean. 

 

Riding that old grey dog was not as romantic as Paul Simon sang it. From the Great Depression, through the War, to after the highways were completed, until perhaps the first oil crisis when Nixon was president it was not too bad. Decay and increased dodginess came ever more apparent. There also were passenger trains for long distance travel, but air travel was less common. Having a car was less necessary, especially for daily travel to work, and shop, and errands for there were streetcars and such. Old people who never learned to drive, college students, military servicemen, and people with little means looking for a new town rode the buses. But at one point, something changed in America. This company was not managed well and sold a few times, employees were not treated well. Terminals were not maintained. Some people that habituated the terminals were rough, crazy, and had criminal interests eager to engage (this was true then too, but it grew). Travellers did not like to be there, and felt discomfort and unease.

 

William Strudwick Arrasmith was the architect of some sixty plus of these puppies. The first being in Louisville Kentucky (where he was based) in 1937 (now gone for more than a generation). He applied the Streamline Moderne style of industrial design to architecture.  Cleveland's was the first completed after WWII in early 1948 and the last in that style and the end of Art Deco. The Louisville depot's exterior was porcelain enameled steel in Greyhound blue, Cleveland's (then the largest) is in limestone with aluminum.  

The neon dog used to be on both sides until recently.

Collinwood High was built in the 1920s, and once was the largest high school in Ohio.

lion head ornaments, and lightning rods on finials

one of two John Marshall High's owls, now in Jefferson Park

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

 

Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. 1886. St. Petersburg.

"Now it came to pass as they went, that he entered into a certain town: and a certain woman named Martha, received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord's feet, heard his word. But Martha was busy about much serving. Who stood and said: Lord, hast thou no care that my sister hath left me alone to serve? speak to her therefore, that she help me.And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful, and art troubled about many things: But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her."
—Luke x. 38-42.

Martha is overlooked. She is often the bystander. Jesus raises her brother Lazarus, as she and Mary look on. Mary is more extravagant in her devotion to Jesus, and more attentive to his words. Martha works, and is diligent, and she knows that. She feels burdened and, that, she does more than her share.

Siemiradzki has her, in the upper left and in shadow, she is not the focus. The focus is Jesus. There is an oriel or rondel of light with Jesus at the centre. Mary sits at His feet catching every word and gesture of the Master. Martha is off to the side. She is carrying, what seems to be, a jug. The picture is extravagantly gorgeous, the house of Martha and Mary is a villa with a gardened courtyard, with a grape vine porch bower, roses (what is more beautiful than roses in full bloom?) and twisting mature trees. Mary is in handsome profile, dear Martha’s face is obscured. [click, earlier post]

Well, before the corona virus 19 hit, i was aware of First Congregational Church of Akron. They have had orchestral concerts there; and i wanted to attend one when the day was long, so that i could photograph their windows. I had seen interior fotos of their church. After two years, i finally came there. In the late morning, i was given a tour. I always enjoy seeing subjects not seen before in ecclesial glass. I saw one i immediately recognised.

The windows were all beautiful. I don't know the studio. Other windows had scenes that are in many other churches. This one was a copy in glass of Siemiradzki's oil painting.

foto safari on Monday

Une dame française a été vue à Cleveland. Demain, c'est le jour de la Bastille.

also on West St. Clair

Rain was intermittent yesterday causing interesting lighting. This seen from the freeway.

 

2021 Miscellany #10

Hermes Clark 5 years

grooms skinny dogs

Goose walk at Lake View Cleveland

Five Points Collinwood is not an easy intersection.

abandoned house Glenville

Gardenwalk Cleveland in Rockefeller Park

Canadian lilies, Croat Garden

 

To-day Desanka Maksimovich's bust arrived in the Serb Garden, for to-morrow's dedication.

George Enescu, Romanian Garden

Recently an oak tree fell, some of its fibers split like floss.

This oak tree is in the American Indian Garden, it is tagged 439.

Karma and Cassius posing in the Vietnamese Garden, at the spot of a future statue. Some landscaping was done yesterday.

Karma and Cassius in their favorite spot in the gardens, the Italian fountain.

day lilies, Hebrew Garden