transient spring color

 

As i type, it is before noon on Thursday.  It is 77°F, the record high is 80°F, it is expected to be surpassed. A week ago, it snowed. The early blossoms were not open on Monday, yesterday some had already wilted and fallen. Spring weather here can erupt quickly and disappear. Beautiful early blooms can come and go fast. See it now, or yesterday, because that may be it. I have been posting Monday's pictures, these are fotos from yesterday (Wednesday).

 

These first six pictures are Brookside Metropark's Japanese cherry trees on Wednesday.

The two above are from Monday. The blooms went from small, tight, closed, and pink; to open, fluffy, and white.

Yestereve light on Greek Cultural Garden. The light makes that wall dazzle.

Cherry Wednesday evening Wade Lagoon

Oil Can Church in background with spooky branching trees in foreground

People were enjoying this spot.

This magnolia from yesterday just passed the peak color moment, a few petals had already fell.

more cemetery blooms from Monday

 Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Ohio is in spring color

Monday at the Cultural Gardens

Karma in the Greek Garden

Rūpintojėlis (the Brooding One), Pensive Christ

Before Rodin sculpted his Le Penseur, this figure of Jesus was carved along the waysides. This is the Lithuanian one. They became more poignant for the nation after the brutal incorporation of the country into Stalin's Russia.

A little early for full bloom, the Ukrainian Garden is across the street from the Greek Garden. WVIZ-25 uses both between programmes as station identification.

noon Monday people came to see daffodils

This year, small signs communicated the cemetery's sentiments in good humour.

Lake View Cemetery promotes visiting, especially to see the daffodils. Mid-day Monday, many came as family groups, and that includes the family dogs.

Akron downtown walkabout

  

man walking dog

campaign for Devo into Rock Hall

tire dragon and Lock 3 flower mural

YMCA Building with tree blossoms by Lock 3

Akron Canal Park pitching mound and coyote?

Goose Street

Lock 3 and 4 Akron Civic murals

Michael Ayers.  Lock 4 stage.  August 2012. 

The front of the building is the Akron Civic Theater. These two locks of the Ohio &Erie Canal are a city park.

I am assuming the musicians are: Ornette Coleman saxophone, Thelonius Monk piano, Wes Montgomery guitar, Billie Holiday singer, Max Roach drums, Clifford Brown trumpet.

El Mac (Miles MacGregor), and Aiseborn. Axis Mundi. Lock 4. Autumn 2020.

 

Louise (Ouizi) Jones. Lock 3. Autumn 2020. 

Flowers are blue crescent iris, heath aster, American water lotus, and golden ragwort.

always stuff to see if you look

McDog at Cleveland Botanical Garden

 Cleveland Art Museum

Mall C

Forsythia

an idiot lives there

?astime  Billiard Parlor, Gold Bond Beer sign reappeared after years, on E. 105