2023 Miscellany #15 — October additional

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"

 

Marija Lasic and Joshua Davis spend days elaborately decorating their house on Clifton for Hallowe'en.

leaf display Brecksville Metropark

Christmas flowers in late October, Rockefeller Greenhouse

Cleaning Edgewater Beach, 25 October.

When the leaves change color, the color becomes brilliant when the sun hits at the right angle.

Waiting to get weighed in Circleville, a ton of squash. There was a pumpkin train. 

Licking County Seat, Newark O.

County Courthouse begun in 1876 built in Second Empire style, has a working clock tower, and four Lady Justices.  All these fotos can be taken on the same walk, it helps to know beforehand the better routes.

Mark Twain and bench by Midland Theater, once in front of the ticket booth looking out to the courthouse, now with a flower background looking at the theater. One of a series of famous people on benches by Gary Price, brought to Newark By John Gilbert Reese in 2003 with a little plaque honoring the actor Hal Holbrook.

Gary Lee Price. Learning Curve. 2006. Newark O. Licking County Library.

One of many sculptures donated [click] to Newark and Licking County by native son, J Gilbert Reese (*1925, 2018†).

Walking by, there was this Pabst wagon by the trash containers. I have not had a Pabst since January 1978, i can still immediately recognise the smell.

Notice the blinds allow for a cat's eye view.

The old county jail and sheriff's residence. The front of the building housed the sheriff, jail matron, and their families. The back of the three storey building had 32 cells for prisoners. Built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style used from 1889 to 1987. Over the years many prisoners killed themselves, and now tickets are sold for Jail of Terror. My battery died photographing St. Francis de Sales, whose first priest was Jean-Baptiste Lamy. He became the first bishop of Santa Fe New Mexico. Willa Cather wrote a novel about him, Death Comes for the Archbishop. So my nephew's fotos i have used. [foto:jz]

Architectural details and ornaments are great to see. The side entrance to the jail has a frog. That frog would have been looking over, at different times a canal, and then a railroad station. [foto:jz]

Sometimes interesting signage is informative. [foto:jz]

The sun bleached out this view, foto suffered. This financial building's architect was Louis Sullivan, built in 1914 with two terra cotta facades. This is the longer, and southern one. Sullivan known for skyscrapers, built eight smallish banks. In the literature they are called 'jewel boxes'.

2023 Miscellany #14 — October

a griffin on St. Ignatius of Antioch's campanile

Waiting for the blessing of the animals on St. Francis' Day (October 4), a passel of dogs and two geckos, St. Ignatius of Antioch on Lorain. People drive by, some recognise and smile; others think weird Catholics.

Woollybear caterpillar (Pyrrharctia isabella, the Isabella tiger moth, whose larval form is the banded woolly bear) on carpet by the Solstice Steps Lakewood.  Many of us were introduced to them by Dick Goddard the weatherman. The lore of folk weather casting revolves the width of the orange middle band, the wider it is the milder the winter.

Star Baking Company's building was sold to Hough Bakery in 1941. It has been vacant since 1992. There are two tall chimneys with a star each side. It is not easy to see from most angles, i first noticed them from drone aerial fotos. I did notice the stars on the buildings front [click]. For those who watch the Great British Bake Off, there is a star baker at the end of each episode. I wonder whether it is an old term.

If i knew a little earlier, this foto would have been on the late public art. Irishtown was the area on the west bank of the flats of the Cuyahoga, below St. Malachi's. This old postcard style mural joins the nearby Cleveland and Tremont ones.

on a walk about the flats

Fall foliage, green becomes red.

the pumpkins have arrived

We were there during Wednesday's weigh-in. It is a four day festival. Behind the woman in light blue are the pumpkins that were already weighed. I think, i remember the announcer say there were forty to be weighed, and he couldn't remember that many before.  Eight weighed more than a thousand pounds. Sometimes massive pumpkins are ugly, these were all pretty good looking. Those in the foreground are available for purchase. [foto:jz]  previous visit [click]

Bob (and Jo) Liggett, who have won many times (15) before, now have the state record at 2,388.5 pounds. When the weight was shown and announced, cheers and applause quickly followed.

There were many people milling around. One fellow had this patch sewed on his denim jacket.

a beautiful green house on Mound Street

Ite ad Joseph

Hocking and Pickaway counties are two of several counties that have only one Catholic church, usually at the county seat. I was at St. John's in Logan, and the priest told me, he thought the best glass in the Columbus diocese was St. Joseph in Circleville. Yesterday, we were in Circleville. "Ite ad Joseph" means go to Joseph. Joseph is the universal patron. When you do not know who will intercede for you in prayer, the answer is "Ite ad Joseph".

Most (if not all) glass there is F.X. Zettler Munich. One of the best visual scenes from the New Testament is the Flight to Egypt. I have not seen that much in churches. This church has several windows of Joseph. The only scene missing was Joseph as carpenter.

"Ave Maria gratia plena", the words of Gabriel to Mary, "Hail Mary full of grace". This is the top of the Annunciation window.

St. Cecilia, the patroness of music surrounded by organ pipes. 

There is much iconography in Christian art. Often, the two keys to heaven and earth tell you the symbols are for St. Peter. Here the fish reminds us, he was a fisherman.

 

 They have three small above the doors between the nave and the narthex. They are different in style from the other windows. Don't know if they are Zettler windows. Some of the windows have Zettler maker marks, i did not see them on these.  [blogger has taken over the spacing and positioning of fotos and text, i am not adept enough to meddle with the html]

close up of George's steed

Sower

Don't know the reader.

Before the sanctuary, is this floor mosaic of lilies, another symbol of St. Joseph (but not uniquely his).

late in the year public art

A view from behind the microphones of a new sculpture.

Cleveland Summit/Muhammad Ali Summit took place on June 4, 1967 at 10501 Euclid Avenue, the Negro Industrial Building. The decal group portrait foto is of eleven prominent athletes, and a candidate for Cleveland's mayor. Here civil rights was joined with athletics, and perhaps not surprisingly, it has not been made clear. Not then, not now. It was a contentious time, and even moreso because of the Viet Nam War.

The world heavyweight champion, Cassius Clay, had joined the Nation of Islam and changed his name. Many people were upset. Then Ali was drafted, and refused. His position was that his religion forbade him to fight such an unjust, and racist war.  He claimed conscientious objector status. He was stripped of his title, and his license to box, and was to be soon on trial for draft evasion. The summit was a public act of solidarity in support of Ali. He was quickly found guilty, and won an appeal from the Supreme Court (8-0).

In Old Brooklyn, on Memphis, a store owner had a an artist paint a city scene of Puerto Rico on an outside wall.

From a distance it looks real flat. The wall has a bulge in it. Not just with this one, but when something is new, better see it soon. One can not tell its longevity, and whether it is upkept.

Argos approaching a metal dog.

The Cleveland's tourist board has commissioned six artistic signs. Supra is on Fleet, by Kelle Schwab.

Lisa Quine. W. 80th & Lorain.

Hallowe'en 23

 

chair of applied electricity, Parma O

Not all Hallowe'en decorations have to be spooky. Clever fellow comes up with a new lawn story each year in Parma. The season allows for creativity, moreso than other holidays.

 

Waiting in Bay Village

These readily available plastic skeletons have utility as mannequins. They allow for diversity of posing, and as clothes horses they are convenient. Skeletons are the most apropos prop for the season. Most appropriate are dancing skeletons.

"I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world"  (Cleveland west side)

This house on Clifton does new elaborate scenes for Hallowe'en every year. This year they present Lake Eerie School for Witches. The couple also have done Christmas, and Thanksgiving scenes. Middle autumn to the middle of winter, one does not to be so wary of lawn mowing.

Another yearly event is Lakewood's Spooky Pooch parade. This year the weather was drizzly, dark, and 50°F. Pretty sure turnout was depressed. Often family groups costume together.  Their spooky pooch is Shark.