2025 Miscellany #10 — summer is near

  Mike Sobeck. Neighborhood Critters. 2025. Broadview in Old Brooklyn Cleveland.

The lift is still there. These two are a pair.

Very nearby, on Broadview. (front of building seen here click)

Red tailed hawk visiting St. Sava Parma.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam  (To the Greater Glory of God)
St. Procop extinguished 24 August 2009. (Hound posing for scale)

Edgewater Beach, 2 days after big rain caused sewer overflow to dump in lake. Red flag means no swimming (because of e. coli).

Some more fotos from Saturday [click]: These are dangerous days

Don't Make me repeat myself  — History

Carl Beckman posing with a disinterested Karma. Both were with crowd, and not at Orange Caligula's birthday party.

That boy ain't right!

Stop trying to make fascism happen

Only you can prevent fascist liars 

2025 Miscellany #9 — mid-spring

Cardinal Playground Cleveland Heights O

Box 5 of beheaded owls for Parade the Circle

Butcher retired.

Being surveilled.

Third update on  Dayz Whun's mural in Cleveland. 17 May

Braiding daisy crowns.

Quaker ladies, azure bluets, houstonia caerulea; these were growing on a cliff.

Saturday, late March, Athens O

Chubu University presented a gift of 175 cherry trees in 1979 to honor the years of Ohio University. In 2004 they gave an additional 25.

They were in bloom and people came to see, and some Japanese picnicked as in the old country.

Above the opposite bank is the former Lunatic Asylum.

Banner promoting talk therapy, strung up over Court Street.

pedestrians on Court & Union

The only drop box allowed in each county.  This is outside the court house on Court Street.

on tiny East State steps from Court Street

Jefferson Hall game room

Blonde squirrel on College Green

Blonde girl outside College Green

2023 Miscellany #5

at Upper Edgewater one of the snapshot script Cleveland signs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

eared grebes compared to Canadian geese

song sparrow

mourning dove on fence

Do  you remember the secret agent, Secret Squirrel (voiced by Mel Blanc) mid 1960s?

March Fo(u)rth, march do not hop

St. Aloysius Cleveland at the beginning of Lent

 

It is the beginning of March. In many people's minds winter is over, and the corona virus precautions are mostly a memory. The first Saturday morning of March, one of the Protestant porch hoppers came to the front door. It was early, and not warm at all. One good thing about the covid times is that this bothering did not happen. The Rutherfordites (J. Witnesses) wrote letters, and made recorded phone calls. But really, is this a peculiarly American thing? They say something like they want to talk about Scripture, or the Lord. They are not interested in what you might want to talk about. This is being accosted at home. Their First Amendment rights are not valid in another man's home, for a man's home is his castle. Well, if we had left house fifteen minutes earlier, we would not have known this particular attempt of proselytisation.

 

Now, St. Aloysius is a beautiful Catholic church on a main street in Glenville. Now, Glenville is 90+% black. Black people in Cleveland are overwhelming Baptists, Catholics are in the range of 3-5%. Catholics rarely porch hop. If one wants to experience a Catholic religiosity, come to a Mass. They are all public, there is no secret beliefs. 

 

Of course, that little sign [foto supra] is respected in the black community, it should be respected by all. Now, there are many whites that are furious when they see such a sign; and there are white Catholics, who would thoroughly object to that sign being posted in front of a Catholic church. That sign is no longer new.

Also on the east side, there is a new exhibition visiting Cleveland Art Museum.

And it is always a good time to watch a squirrel.

2023 Miscellany #4

 

Szkoła Św. Jadwigi  (St. Hedwig's School)

There are buildings that currently have different purposes, than what they had been built for. Sometimes, they still have the original proud carved stonework, which identifies their origin. Lakewood Ohio, has a few streets off Madison called Birdtown. The people that lived there were from central and eastern Europe. Each group had their church, and often school. Sometimes, the stones were bi-lingual.

LOVE on the rocks, Lorain Impoundment

ring-billed gulls, Lorain Impoundment

squirrel, Bath Nature Reserve

Well, had not been at Bath Nature Reserve for some time. There is a 1.3 mile Solar System Walk, with computer designed art by Alexander Landis. After Pluto, there is Joe Frohnapfel's Chief Logan [click]. Pluto had the terrifying Cerberus, the three headed dog, who is not that terrifying here.

Blue heron at Peninsula Ohio's rookery, 20 February, with not so good lighting. There are now two trees, off a major road, where many herons nest. In mid-February the males take to the nests, and do some repair and add on.

2022 Miscellany #17—end year fotos

Not among the regular Christmas lawn decorations

"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, only a hippopotamus will do". Sung by Gayla Peevey 1953.

Roberto Clemente Park Cleveland has had many new commemorations. This portrait has a glam rock touch, cf. Ziggy Stardust, KISS.

If you plant sunflowers really, really late. This is how they look on Thanksgiving, never have gone to seed.

Late turkey day morning, Lorain impoundment, ring billed gulls and phragamites.

Christmas Flowers, Rockefeller Greenhouse

squirrel, checkerboard, Lincoln Park Cleveland

Independence O.

stained glass plein air, Newburgh Heights O.