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).

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)

migration and bloom

sunflowers in Avon Ohio

sunflower with bunny ears

with grasshopper

monarch butterfly migration

monarch caterpillar

good mother daughter outing

coreopsis field Bay Village

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.

2021 Miscellany #15—more late summer stuff

Mural on parking lot side of a saloon up for sale in Barberton Ohio. Instead of going around the painting, two pvc electrical pipes were run over it. Plastic pipe does not fare well exposed to sunlight.

Slovenian Independent Society Home, Barberton

 Second Street Barberton

once a beautiful house in Glenville Cleveland

 

sunflowers as tall as greyhounds

from Maria's Field in Avon, perhaps last season

early Hallowe'en pirate skeleton saloon, Bay Village O.

Russell & Company. Compound Traction Engine.

The company had been the largest employer in Massillon.  They made farm, and railroad machines, beginning in 1842 until 1962.

Meyer Pool Octopus, across Lincoln-West High School, Cleveland

graffiti on a warehouse on East 82nd Cleveland

 

sunflowers in Avon

 

 #MariasFieldofHope #PrayersFromMaria 2020

 

click on previous years:  2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2016a, 2015

                                                Karma surveys the field