2023 Miscellany #2

 

triple Cleveland

23 January 2023 Parma, West Creek Metropark

 

ready for tear down

Flower child messages made a visit on an old train engine.

 

"'Cause out on the edge of darkness,
There rides a Peace Train
Oh Peace Train take this country,
Come take me home again" — Cat Stevens. 1971.

photographs of abandoned places #41

 Sterle's Country House

Painting of married Slovene peasant woman looking at E. 55th Cleveland.

Na Zdravje! [to your health, said to fellow drinker(s)], sometimes misheard as "nice driveway". This was over a bar in an adjacent room. There is grapes, barley, plums, and hops, and their end products. Traditionally, Slovenes have a viticulture; but there is a German (through Austria) influence shown here. Plum brandy is slivovka/slivovic, schnaps is German for any of many spirits. There is a Slovene minority in Austria Styria.

A Slovene rural scene, complete with hay, church, and the Alps. This might be the last anyone sees of these paintings.

Demolition vehicles are parked outside, and the word to start is approaching. The snow is covering several heaps of back fill ready to cover up the hole.

There had been a fire.

This was a Slovene area of the city. Sterle's was a well known restaurant for many years. Just a few years ago, the buildings immediately north, up to St. Clair were to be a revitalised portion of Cleveland. It is not happening now. A sheriff's auction was listed for 28 May 2020. The fire was 22 November 2022.

vine with birds

Krisztina Lazar. The Wall on Woodbine. 2005. Cleveland.

Krisztina Lazar graduated from Carnegie Mellon. Shortly thereafter, she painted this in Ohio City Cleveland by St. Patrick's. She writes that this public art, a three story mural in house paint, was done in the autumn of 2006. The painting reads 2005. After that she went to graduate school in San Francisco. She continues with art in Oakland. [click] She is accurate in her birding, all local birds save for parrots. She likes parrots. The painting is still there, with some chipping and peeling. Many other local murals have had the paint deteriorate in a fourth of the time that this has been here. In several mythologies there is a tree of life. She painted a vine full of birds, monarch butterflies, and symbolic mandala flowers.

Nuthatches travel downward on trees, often quickly.

robin nest, the next generation

2023 Miscellany #1

 

painted house number on Ohio City transom

four young harlequins

house sparrow

moon before sunset on a cold January day

Snagglepuss used to say, "Exit, stage right".

On 18 January 2023, Cleveland Clinic began demolition of the Cleveland Playhouse between Euclid and Carnegie in the East 80s. see: click.  They started demolition on the better looking facades.

What is advertised, and what is.

  Bolivar mural

 "I'm putting on my top hat, tying up my white tie, brushing off my tails."— Irving Berlin

 Chester Avenue Cleveland