2026 Miscellany #13

These giant wooden chairs are spreading.  This is the first one i've seen with a step stool.

Seen on a tent on Cuyahoga Fairgrounds.

No idea if this says something, but looks good.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Carl Jara sand sculptor.
His wedding was the first Oktoberfest.

Perun jumping for joy in a splash pad.

red nuts

Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. Cuyahoga Fairgrounds. 

USA 250, Parma 200

Small boy bubbling up the side street by St. Charles.

Parma is celebrating 200 years.

Some time ago, Parma accepted the pink flamingo jokes; it did not come right away. It is now a mascot.

There are two flamingo statues mounted in Parma. They are both the second at their locations, previous ones were stolen, and broken. Here the remainder of one is floating.

Don't have an answer. Looks fun. 

Now what i believe should be in every Independence Day Parade: the three guys from the Spirit of  '76 painting, Statue of Liberty (and her friend Lady Justice), Uncle Sam, marching bands, of course if the weather is amiable — dogs and horses, old cars are neat. The weather has been brutal this week, it was not so bad this morning, but i was feeling it, and left early.  I read that Philadelphia, and DC cancelled their parades, but american nazis paraded through Washington DC, after all their boys are in charge.

Normally, comic book heroes don't show up, but this one should.

Because, Liberty is not well. 

Judith de Leeuw. Roubaix France. 4 July 2025.

It is always great to see dogs. This is Nitro, he is 14% German Shepard. Just coming into adulthood. Nitro is happy, and well behaved.

The little fellow is Dallas.

Guessing 1957 Chevy Bel Air.

Guessing 1954 Chevy Bel Air.

A hospital was in the parade, and they sent one of their life flight copters to go back and forth.

 

Columbus visit

Sullivan is a calm seven year old Great Dane in good health & temperment.

I was walking on North High, and these people wanted me to take a foto. They only gestured, and said nothing. 

Deer statue looking at me in a lot over from Columbus Museum of Art.

I have posed a pic of Thurber's unicorn before [click].

on Long Street, "Be part of the Climate Solution" 

Mandi Caskey. She Moves with Color. Columbus. 2026. 

Brian Clemons had the original sideways Mona Lisa [click] nearby, it has been decided that it can not be saved. I have read it was the first Columbus popular mural that inspired others to take up the brush.

fatalistic license

Catholische St. Marien Schule 1865.  German Village Columbus

2026 Miscellany #7

another view of  William McVey. Gree-Deep. 1972. Chagrin Falls O.

Live dogs inspecting metal dogs, Chagrin Falls O.

A display of some civil courage, Parma O.

Saw this on a trailer on a driveway, '49 Fleetline Deluxe Chevy maybe.

Park police horse, Edgewater Beach Cleveland.

Walking on the shore of Lake Erie.

Sandstorm on said beach.

Earth Day clean up

Several dogwoods are in the Cultural Gardens to the north of Superior.

April 22nd was Earth Day, Friday was Arbor Day, and Saturday was clean up day  of winter litter.  Estonian Garden

German Garden

Germans' class picture

A few weeks ago, a storm came through damaging trees. The Bach statue was hit. Years earlier, a part of a Beethoven monument was taken, that was theft. This was an accident of nature.

Perun in the Hebrew Garden

Hudson O.

Karma & Perun visiting in late March find a rubber duck promotion.

 Door 2 Art Studio. The Wonder Within. 2021.

Peep, one of three duck balloons visiting for a month.

Scooter with butterfly

Sunny

good looking signage

James W.  Ellsworth  *1849, 1925†, town's most successful son and benefactor.

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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