2026 Miscellany #4

A tom turkey failing to impress hens at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland.

A znamenja [sign, symbol] shrine at Saint Vitus Cleveland.  It will have four paintings, this is the first Marija Pomagaj Brežje.  Mary Help of Christians is the national Madonna of the Slovenes. The others are Bl. Anton Martin Slomšek, Ven. Frederic Baraga (Apostle to the Ojibwe), and a local priest who served two Slovene parishes in Cleveland.

organ pipes in stone, by an entrance at St. Vitus

Fire escape, can't think of another on a church.

It was warm on Holy Saturday [April 4]. Man and dog walking in Ukrainian Garden.

Passed this many times, there is a yard of chestnut trees. A buckeye is a horse chestnut.

daffodils of the most early spring during a lull in the yo-yo weather