2023 Miscellany #12 — more images

  Blue heron makes a water landing, North Ridgeville O. July 19th.

New Guinea impatiens

 Clydesdale stockings are called feathers, i too once had hairy shanks.

Sometimes parking is a problem. Sunset Strip, North Canton O.

A building on Scranton, Lincoln Heights Cleveland, is undergoing a slow remodel. These old windows look great, they had been boarded over for years as the building was vacant.

It's raining at the zoo, so go into the gift shop and buy animal pattern plastic panchos.

Argos' summer reading

Ever watch teevee, a football game, slow motion replay? and you see little black pellets fly up after footsteps? O, you are seeing fine, it is not some aberrant optical conclusion[sic], it is crumb rubber infill made of ground up tires. It makes the playing carpet safer, and longer lasting, it keeps the color fast, and decreases drying time. Yet, that ground car tire contains many chemicals in its production. It is more comfortable than first generation astroturf, but it is not healthy as real grass; also this field was a hazardous chemical site a few years ago,

 

So, the carpet layer is a landscaper. Here his machine drives the pellets into the turf of Jose Ramirez Field Cleveland. August 10th.