2026 Miscellany #5 — Akron

green basilisk, Akron Zoo

Nepali Kitchen dragon hopefully will not soon be obscured.

Airship Akron welcomes you.

What image is being projected here?

utility box decal of  Peter Toth's  Rotaynah. [click]

went to see a duck

Went to Cuyahoga Falls to see a sixty foot rubber duck balloon, it was deflated. It rained heavily on Thursday evening, we heard a wing was injured, Friday morning, the word was it would be up at 3 o'clock. Across the street there were smaller dux.

Karma looks at woman, woman looks at Karma for Stark State College.

Some saloons have elaborate decorations inside, this one also has them outside.

Many Mexican restaurants use colorful pictures/paintings that reflect culture. Here we have Mariachi esqueletos.

Ernest Angley came three months short of reaching a century. He died very nearly five years ago. He was a teevee preacher based in Akron/Cuyahoga Falls. [click] .  He was entertaining to many.  His southern Pentecostal  manner was easily mocked, and was by Johnny Carson, Robin Williams, and Genesis with Phil Collins. [click] [uncensored]  Looks like his ministries continue. They did have scandals known to the public.

Saturday snap safari

The weekends, and major holidays in the morning are the best days to go out with a camera. Above is the very recently planted water tower on top of the building that is going to be cop central.

Driving further into downtown Cleveland, Mona wants you to smile.

window washing?

reflection of Terminal Tower on the Sherwin Williams HQ

Rowing on the Cuyahoga, with a view of grass planting on Irishtown Hill.

The last panel of a series of murals on Walton by Ariel Vergez.

San Juan on Clark, have passed by his many times. First time without a car parked.

scaffolding around old St. Michael's School

you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

 

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.

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

No Kings, No Crowns, No Clowns

 28 March 2026 — Parma O. & America —  Ω ☨

Patriots gathered across the land in town squares, and along thoroughfares.  

The weather varies across the continent.  In the northeast corner of Ohio, the morning was at or below freezing, with a trace of small snowflakes drifting through occasionally.

28 March 2026 — Parma O. & America — Ω ☨

There were many points that needed to be aired.

Trump is evil a priori, and that evil creates more evil.

Sometimes for a good foto snap a rise in elevation helps.

George Santayana had similar thoughts:

•  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
• The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.
• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Again, statements must be aired.

America is now not among the free lands of democracy, yet some people intend to return it so.

Humor helps, the Devil does not like to be mocked. He must be mocked, and ridiculed.

As Professor Timothy Snyder says, "Protest brings joy. It feels good to be active and to be with other people. It dispels the loneliness we might experience when we are alone or online. When we realize that we are with millions of others, we feel we can make a difference, because we are making a difference: in the world, and in ourselves." 

All we are saying...

abandoned places #47 & 2026 Miscellany #3

Miles Park Presbyterian Church Newburgh built 1869-1872 lasted until coronavirus-19 hit in March 2020.  Cleveland annexed the village in 1873. Across the street was Miles Park Methodist originally, it was abandoned and burned down two years ago. The Methodist church became a Pentecostalist, and the Presbyterian became a Baptist church, such goes the devolution of churches in cities when they undergo urban decay.  Often Baptist churches do not use the title, and that is not tied to socio-economic status.

Portion of the remaining 19th C? glass. The only marking were intertwined Ss on the two balcony windows. that were behind an amber window. There was really no hints any of the glass was ecclesial. The same glass could have been in any secular setting. Some of the glass did have the names of donors.

Lorain Carnegie Bridge four, double faced, art deco sandstone pylon sculptures. The figures are collectively the Guardians of Traffic. On the corner where Carnegie begins there is an American League baseball park. For the last few years, the team has been the Guardians.

On the west side of the bridge, there is a neighborhood of houses under the pylons. Here it was easy to get up close and personal with a camera.

Just a little further up Carnegie is this advertisement for Palantir, which is unknown to most people. Palantir makes software for surveillance for government agencies, and corporations.  It is spyware.  The chairman of the corporation is Peter Thiel, a German born evangelical queer, who is anti-democracy, and chief sponsor of his former employee, JD Vance.  He has, or is giving currently, secret lectures in Rome about Anti-Christ & Armageddon.  Thiel thinks geniuses like him [sic] should rule.