2022 Miscellany #18—more end year fotos

Burning River Brass, St. Wendelin Cleveland, tubist playing "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch". 

 

I have taken a lot of fotos, which i find interesting. Many did not find themselves placed with a complete essay. I still liked them, and end up placing themselves in pictorial grab bags. I received a new camera for Christmas, hopefully i will learn to use it.

Ohio City

Stan and Ollie. Independence O.

VW bug with horns

Ford Galaxie

in League Park Museum Cleveland 

Ethiopian Clowns were a barnstorming, and a Negro League team. Home fields were at Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and later Buffalo. Chiefly remembered as the Indianapolis Clowns, even when playing elsewhere. Hank Aaron played for them. They continued on, being the last Negro team. I wonder if there are people who object to the name.

One of the dragons on the roof of an outdoor shrine at Quan Âmm Vietnamese Buddhist Temple, Cleveland.

Some statues have added clothes, Jesus as Christ the King. In October a reredos went up at La Sagrada Familia Cleveland.

2022 Miscellany #17—end year fotos

Not among the regular Christmas lawn decorations

"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, only a hippopotamus will do". Sung by Gayla Peevey 1953.

Roberto Clemente Park Cleveland has had many new commemorations. This portrait has a glam rock touch, cf. Ziggy Stardust, KISS.

If you plant sunflowers really, really late. This is how they look on Thanksgiving, never have gone to seed.

Late turkey day morning, Lorain impoundment, ring billed gulls and phragamites.

Christmas Flowers, Rockefeller Greenhouse

squirrel, checkerboard, Lincoln Park Cleveland

Independence O.

stained glass plein air, Newburgh Heights O.

December dispatch from Birdtown

Madison Park Lakewood is on the edge of Birdtown. The streets are named: Lark, Thrush, Quail, Plover, and Robin.

This Santa may have been around for several decades. He sort of looks like the one that sold soda pop, maybe before the American television age.

a rebuttal from the Cleveland border

tilted at 90 degrees from situ, on a front porch

This was across the street from Lakewood. Everyday before election day there were stories about the high and increasing price of gas, what happened? Virtually no news coverage since November 8th.

[fotos taken 14 December]

last portrait Cassius

In seven years i have had three greyhounds. Two have died. They are supposed to be healthy dogs, and for dogs considered large, long lived. Not my two boys. Captain America just past five, and Cassius eight and a half. Captain had a sudden heart attack, i was told by a veterinary doctor. Cassius was diagnosed with bone cancer, and died ten days later. Both were seemingly in perfect health, until they were not.

All three were adopted from a rescue, and suffered with different worms. The last two hounds were very thin, and Karma had discolored fur, and still has intestinal issues. Captain had no physical ailments before sudden death. Cassius had a limp for a couple of weeks, and it was getting worse. Karma had stretched something, a few times, and had pain at that shoulder joint, i thought maybe Cassius might have something similar. After a few days, Karma would be back to normal; but Cassius' pain lingered, and the limp became a hop, but he did not cry, or wince. He was getting older. I have had arthritis in the heel for many years. He might have that. I knew that the one frequent illness that greyhounds had was bone cancer, and that was in my fears. Then one night he had seizures, and was in a lot of pain. When day dawned a trip to the animal hospital.  He had cancer, medicine arrested the pain for a couple of days, and then a steady, and accelerating decline. The dosage intervals were too long, and the pain and debilitation increased.

Karma is in the room with me now. She is related to Cassius. So often, i have been at home with only the hounds. What i must say, is they have a charm. With Cassius gone, i feel an emptiness. All dogs are meant to be good dogs. People are partial to some more than others. I can see why so many dogs are liked. Greyhounds are a very ancient breed. Eight thousand years ago they were in Egypt. They were carved on the monuments. They were favored by aristocracy for many centuries, millennia. They charmed.

Roses and Our Lady of Guadalupe

 

December 12th is the Feast of  Our Lady of Guadalupe.

 

 La Sagrada Familia Cleveland

 

Blessing, and incensing the roses. St. Juan Diego's tilma (cloak) had Castilian (Damask) roses that he gathered at the Virgin's command, from the usually barren Tepeyac hill. When he released the flowers before the archbishop, the tilma had her portrait upon it. This was the miracle of the roses on 12 December 1531.

Everyone received a rose after Mass.

 

art and signage west of Glenville

St. Clair & E. 72nd

middle section of the wide mural

Now, the city government calls the neighborhood west of Rockefeller Park, "St. Clair-Superior", after the two main avenues that lead downtown. This is west of Glenville. At different times, the city limits were at the streets now called "East 55th", and later "East 79th". Parts of the neighbourhood have been called Norwood, and Kirtland-Goodrich.

St. Clair near E.79th, small neon sign was for years to the left.

Right side of Hungarian archway, Cleveland Cultural Gardens, made by Rose Ironworks in 1938.

Tim Misny looks upon you from I-90.  

Catchy advertising does not have to be verbose or loud. Tim Misny has a successful law firm. I think it is the type Republicans have wanted to cripple, when they say 'tort reform', one that sues malpractice, accidents, personal injury, business gross negligence against people including death. Personal injury caused by the rich and powerful should get free passes.

 

This advertisement would be easily identified through most of northern Ohio. Some driving through, who are not locals might be creeped out. He had reduced his commercials to "You know what i do". Earlier commercials had the phrase "I'll make them pay". The commercials ended with this raised eyebrow stare. If he wanted to further minimalise, just the eye and eyebrow would appear.

change in signage

 

There is a billboard on Broadview where West Creek crosses below. This is up now, in the same spot where in May 2014 there was this second foto.