Some Summit County Beauty

Akron Mon Community Temple's pagoda (dhatu cetiya) completed in 2018.

The Mon people practice the oldest existing form of Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism. Most of  Akron Mon came from Myanmar (Burma), and some from Thailand.

Kendall Ledges Overlook looking west over Cuyahoga Valley, Peninsula O.

As we leaving the overlook, a wedding party was incoming.

It was sunny Monday, and in the middle 50s late morning.

The air was clear and clean, for it rained for the time in several days, Sunday.

 

Brandywine Falls Sagamore Hills

Sunday rained, Monday goodly amount of white water.

Some coots on Summit Lake

2025 Miscellany #20

 

New mural in Ohio City replaces Bernie getting arrested.  Shadows obscure, here is a portion of ancient Greece with a modern addition. Greek coffee is like Turkish coffee, American coffee is different:  it is put in a throwaway container, and is brandished like a torch (either the one with a battery, or real fire).

Well, Parma has replaced the second stolen and vandalised flamingo. A second bunch of probably drunken deplorable yahoos hit this location. Besides being that, these idiots did not have sense to bring a wrench. Using a wrench would have removed the three nuts, instead they snapped the statue off. Well now the flamingos have a bulky gps unit.

There is a graveyard in Cuyahoga Falls that has a large waterfowl pond. There are several farmyard geese, and a pair of  Black Swans that reside there, and sometimes ducky guests. This is the male swan, he is active, and will nip at people.

Three mile water intake crib viewed on a very clear morning from Lakewood; it was  a random shot, i should have taken some care. Pollution used to be so bad, it was seldom seen.

On a Saturday, some of the teachers painted their parking spaces at John Muir Parma.

The back of a tee-shirt worn by a patriot.

Samurai skeleton with koi in Parma

Akron German Shepherd barked at me.

Sunday at the beach w/ horses & …

kite

2 very loud preachers in an African language

fundraiser for Cleveland Metroparks Mounted Unit

 

in & about Summit County

Cuyahoga Falls Gorge Dam still flowing. Preparations are current to remove the dam. The trail with descending wooden steps is closed, and the final portion of the steps to reach the viewing platform have been removed. The best view is now  reached by a rough rocky path.

Barberton Mum Fest's theme this year was bees.

The mechanism to make this a floral clock is not there again but the display is good.

Zs are there for the buzz.

Sign facing Lake Anna, Barberton.

St. Thomas Hospital (Akron) operated from 1928 to 2023, was demolished in 2024.  Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine founded the hospital. In 1935, it was the first hospital that recognised alcoholism as a medical condition. Three outdoor statues from there are now in front of St. Vincent & Mary High School Akron. They are now so white, that they do not photograph well with my camera; the outline yes, details no.

 

Derek Brennan. Pantone of the Cuyahoga River. 2025. Cuyahoga Falls

Perun in kayak 

Cascade Valley Summit Metropark

Cuyahoga River Overlook Summit Metropark

2025 Miscellany #18

outside a Pentecostal Church on a Sunday morning in Cleveland

Severence Hall garage entrance, rare safety precautionary warning

The day after Sunday's chalkings in the rain. This one was not there Saturday. I think the orange letters faded from washing may have read "I loved Liberty". There were not many Sunday chalkings.

The Lebanese Garden has had a cement pole up for months, it has become the trunk of a cedar. Cedars are the national symbol of Lebanon, glance on their flag and you see.

2025 Miscellany #17

 

A heart is on Cleveland's Broadway, David Biro artist.*

 boxcar art, West 3rd Cleveland

Foto bombed by a lantern fly @ Irishtown Bend Cleveland 15 September.

from 10th floor observation windows of Louis Stokes Bldg, Cleveland Main Library

Janel Maher.  Harvey.  2025 recast.  Cleveland.

Harvey was Daniel Stearns dog. Both were members of the 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The statue is on Public Square near the Cuyahoga Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument.

outside a doggy day care downtown Cleveland

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*postscriptum  24 November 2025: vandalised, and then repaired before Thanksgiving 

2025 Miscellany #16 — medley of local images

Ariel Vergez continues work on his literary paintings [click]. A is for Alice.

lighthouse in a parking lot, west bank Cleveland flats

These stores were ubiquitous in northeast Ohio, now if you want to go to a Lawson's, it's either Japan or Hawai'i.  The glue that attached them here remains on building after building.

Berea spritz

yellow woolly bear,  Spilosoma virginica (Virginia Tiger Moth) caterpillar

pup & sunflower 

at Maria's sunflower field, Avon O.

I like the blue on blue, or azul on azure. There were many dragon lanterns at Cleveland Zoo. There is not much difference in the blues, yet what there is, is distinct.  藍龍

Heart on Broadway as seen from Doloff (Cleveland).