2024 Miscellany #17

40°F on a late Sunday of November at Lakewood Park

Smiers (sp?) Family were posing for family fotos, and we interrupted. Hired photographer not pleased.

part of the egg gate at Dike 14

Chinese arch in former parking lot on Payne, Cleveland

Arlin Graff. for Julian Wood. North Olmsted. 2024. 

This happy little green dinosaur is something a three year old boy would have liked. In June, he was stabbed to death by a psychotic woman, a few yards away in the shopping center parking lot. 

“Posside sapientiam quia auro melior est et adquire prudentiam quia pretiosior est argento.”  — Proverbs xvi. 16.

“Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.”    

Odd, this is over a doorway at a university [John Carroll] with a College of Business.

Christmas soldiers. Olmsted Falls Ohio.

Happy 65th

2024 Miscellany #16

 

November 2nd was All Souls Day, Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos

Here is an altar (ofrenda) in Cleveland for the Four Martyred Missionaries of El Salvador. Jean Donovan (St. Ann Cleve Hts), Sr. Dorothy Kazel (St. Robert Euclid), Sr. Ita Ford, Sr. Maura Clarke.

New revolving egg gate at Dike 14, not yet complete November 7th.

On Superior, they made 'viral' national news on their food, they have made local news over attempted robbery.

Driving north where the innerbelt ends on 90 there is an abrupt right turn, as if the civil engineers did not realise there was a big lake straight ahead.  We all call this 'dead man's curve'.  Now at the beginning of that turn there is a descriptive sign.

Karma with red maple leaves

a camera sees

Marbles is eight, that is eight in dog years. He is a sweet animal. His guardian has had him a year, and named him after his way of walking. This Great Dane steps as if he was walking on marbles. Marbles has leg problems, he spent four years in a too small cage.

Scaffolding surrounds Cleveland's Silly Hall, Biden's improvement funds.

Say, who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day. ~ Sesame Street

Actor at Akron Zoo, who will meet school children for an afternoon show.

The child and the Humboldt penguin, both find the other interesting at Akron Zoo.

red panda Akron

ram wizard, Akron Zoo

There is a General Motors stamping plant in Parma.

2024 Miscellany #15

29 September was the Great Global Greyhound Walk. Cleveland Division was at Edgewater Beach, as it has been for a few years. Karma was happy to be with her fellow tribe. Here the lining up for a class foto began. I read that the, official count was 33:  29 greyhounds, 1 Italian greyhound, 1 galgo (Spanish greyhound), and 2 silken windhounds. They are all sight hounds.

There's a lot of road scraping on E.140th in Cleveland. Next to a railroad bridge, there is a longish sloping wall, above new sidewalk. It has a long new mural of idealised Collinwood children by Nate Frizzell.

Old Brooklyn of Cleveland has the Cleveland Zoo. One saloon has a giraffe on its sign. Along the main drag, a number of very thin, and high unicycles with a carrot on top. So, it is a theme. A little while on a Brick wall that faces Pearl, a giraffe riding  a bicycle carrying carrots was painted. [supra: close up]

A number of law firms advertise. This one has two dogs: Cosette on the left is the comfort officer, and Hot Dog is the security officer for the firm.

 

Lakewood Park's World's Children Peace Monument was well landscaped with autumn flowers on 7 October. The first one is in Berea Ohio created by David Jakupca, and i think i have seen them elsewhere too.

side street in West Park off Rocky River Drive

VD Chance, or whatever his name is to-day, made a crack about America being run by childless cat ladies. This one has a sense of humour, and is not voting for the misogynist weirdos.

summer becomes autumn

Alex Senna. Small Giants. Cleveland. 2024.

Arly is a four year old Dachshund, and she is very approachable, and willing to pose for fotos. Upper Edgewater.

Some dogs are not enthusiastic to see a man with a camera. Mount Vernon Ohio.

A lovely home rose caught in full bloom, 21 September.

#prayersfrommaria Avon Ohio. New location, and better land at Jaycox & Middleton.

a run with companion on Wendy Park bridge on Whiskey Island Cleveland

While walking Karma on her sniffari, we saw National Alliance on Mental Health on a walk. They did a big loop from Lower to Upper Edgewater Park Cleveland.

  

another Tim Misny advert

James Thurber on his hometown, "Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen and in which almost everything has". This was on a gazebo, across a former residence. (lighting poor)

2024 Miscellany #14

Carl Jara's annual sand sculpture at Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds for Oktoberfest.

shark bike rack Berea, O.

across from a Cleveland scrapyard

Misny in costume again

Clement Vallandigham was the leader of the Copperheads, Peace Democrats, against Lincoln and the Union. He gave a speech in Mount Vernon in 1863. He was a southern sympathiser, and was pro-slavery. He was arrested by the army, sent south, and escaped to Canada. He planned against the Union. He wanted Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to form a confederacy.

After the war, he returned to practice law. He shot himself, in court, to demonstrate his client did not pull a gun, and kill a man in a saloon. Vallandigham died the next day, after saying something about predestination. His father was a Presbyterian minister. He won the case, his client went free.

Saw these two signs in Mount Vernon. Supra on a man's lawn, and infra in his window. He said, he had a pretty good response from people. Knox County is heavily Republican.

2024 Miscellany #13

Brendan Murphy. The sitting spaceman. 2024. Beachwood Ohio.

 "Hey Mr. Spaceman, won't you please take me along for a ride"

There are five sculptures on a medical center campus of a hospital system. Eleven more are expected. This one is carbon fiber with a topping of shiny chrome. It is to be remembered that the order of cosmonauts, and astronauts was: dog, chimp, man. The artist has made several spaceman sculptures, and the marker scribbles are his.

For centuries Merino sheep were a Spanish monopoly. Their wool is very fine and soft, and much prised. Currently on Simon Perkins farm in Akron there are seven pregnant ewes. Now on a completely different matter. When you have more than one ewe, you have ewes. There is no place for ya'll.

An arbor on Simon Perkins farm, Akron.

   carousel lion at Akron Zoo

Feeding the birds.

Sometimes, creatures are not interested.

Nigerian dwarf goat, American child

insurance salesman 

 She likes Frank Sinatra, and named them Jupiter, and Mars. Jupiter is a female.