2023 Miscellany #17 — tree lawns and ...

 

Marlin in Copley Ohio. Passed this on I-77 so many times, so now i went to their parking lot. They do not have marlin on the menu.

Just past peak (18 November) red maples in Euclid Ohio. These are tree lawns, very few locales use this term; but look they are exactly that. In Akron you will hear the term 'devil strip', much more confusing.

In Euclid, on the shore of Lake Erie, someone had fun in decoration.

These two yard and porch decorations i snapped to-day, both in Parma. What season to decorate for? It is rare to see Turkey Day decorations.

Parma High is beginning demolition on campus. Katie had her parking space.

After George Floyd was murdered, nicknames for some schools and teams were reconsidered. Parma had been Redmen for years. There were community meetings on whether to change the name. The decision was to change the name. The school had its last students graduate in June, 235 Redmen.

2023 Miscellany #16 — sunny November

choo choo on Cleveland's Superior Avenue

A discussion, is this a 1968 Chevrolet Impala?

Bay Village joins the local towns with a script sign to pose with.

Faithful dog waits while man and child enjoy playground.

five year old Great Dane mix

It's duck hunting season, this female harlequin is in some undisclosed wet spot.

Hey Tim, what do skeletons do?

same place as Tim Skelly

a view downtown from the west

great foto safari saturday morning

Had a two hour window for playing with the camera, this morning. This was almost the last foto of the day. This was on West 54th, near the shoreway. Behind the doe, a new downtown skyscraper is going up.

On the other side of town, we went to see the new statue that was installed yesterday. After a multiple year wait, it finally arrived from Viet Nam. I heard, and read, that this the second statue. The first broke in two. There is a marble mountain there. The garden is not yet complete, i expect some more pieces.

Close up, but she has no face.

The fence outside the Rockefeller Greenhouse was dented by a falling tree. The offending tree has been cut up behind/inside the fence.

Cleveland Aquarium at Gordon Park (east side) was closed in 1985. It is being torn down this week. A rude graffiti is temporarily on view.

doggy shoe salesman, Gordon Square (west side)

Goddess of Death by Tracy Doran

Top of old iconostasis at old St. Mary Romanian Orthodox, the church is now part of Cleveland Public Theatre, To-day was the annual Día de Muertos celebration. [click 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013] The main ofrenda/altar is by Robin Heinrich and Adam Carroll.

friendly young woman in the old choir

part of new fish mural on West 54th by Jared McFadden

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google/blogger has made uploading my own photographs onto this page more cumbersome, every new idea/procedure you can count on to be shitty.

Logan Elm & mid autumn

The man has a sense of humour.

Going down to the steel mill, Cleveland.

Circleville tower of orange squash 2023, looks the same every year. Well, i have only seen it three times; but the first time was over 30 years ago. I do enjoy the sight.

Tinkers Creek Gorge, Bedford O.

After the Circleville visit, we went a few miles south to Logan Elm State Memorial. Great place to sit and have lunch. Weather was beautiful, the trees were in fall colors. The park is surrounded by farm land.

inside the memorial park

   

Ohio Historical Marker for Logan, chief of the Mingos who is remembered for a short speech, here in 1774.

  

I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of the white men. I have even thought to live with you but for the injuries of one man. Col. Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This has called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one.

I put a spot of different color in an area i erased some graffiti from the sign. The tree where he spoke lasted until a storm in 1964.

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. 

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.

2023 Miscellany #13 — mostly about University Circle

 

Playing at the museum's fountain.

appealing curves at a building with continuous construction

Ruckeroo sits with his architect companion.

serious high voltage electrical equipment, west side Cleveland

at main entrance Cleveland Art Museum

At the moments when August 24th turned into August 25th a tornado was travelling on Euclid Avenue, it hit Calvary Presbyterian. Charles Frederick Schweinfurth was the millionaire's builder on Euclid Avenue. This was his church as the architect, and a congregant. He knew how to use stone.