a walk in the park

                   Cassius in the Hungarian Garden
Cleveland used to be Forest City. The number of trees have been reduced, and urban forestry seems to take more away than to add. In the city shade trees are a blessing, and the number of shaded walks are not that great. Postmen in summer do a lot better in a tree lined neighborhood, than a tree denuded neighborhood. Perhaps the best scenic shaded walk with your hound is in Rockefeller Park, but crossing the old Liberty Boulevard is often not easy; it is a scenic, winding route that too many idiots treat as a highway. 

It is late summer additions, and improvements have been and are being made. The new Russian Garden is putting in walkways, and a formal dedication is upcoming (Sept.9th?).

The Polish Garden has a new bust. St. John Paul II has taken an old spot, and a re-arrangement of Polish heroes have been made around a tidied up central fountain.

 The Serbs have also added a new bust, Nadežda Petrović.

A new bridge is forming over Doan Brook on St. Casimir Way.

'F' is for foto

Blue Hen Falls, Cuyahoga Valley Park, Sunday morning, August 19th.

Well, sign #6 is up. It is next to the Cuyahoga, not far from Columbus Road lift bridge. It is in a parking lot. They need some fill around it, behind the sign there is pvc pipe above and parallel to the ground. August 13th.

Sam Laud crossing Columbus Road. The lift bridge was engaged. August 19th.

I had to turn the flivver around, and stop. The restaurant was going under a radical renovation (all the windows were removed), and a trailer was selling food. We bought a couple of 'frosties'; they tasted from hose water, or the mouth taste when you are in a garden supply store. August 22th.

ContempOpera Friday night Lincoln Park, singing mostly show tunes. August 24th.

Maria's field is moving

#MariasFieldofHope #PrayersFromMaria

Along Interstate 90 in Avon Ohio there has been, since 2014, a field of sunflowers. This is done in remembrance of a girl, Maria McNamara, who died of brain cancer. From the first, the field was a success, and the next year the planting grew. The last three years, new businesses have been placed on the land, and the available land has become smaller. Now, some other adjacent land has been planted. The field of hope is diminishing, and a new location is probable next year.  Last year 35 acres were planted, the year before 80. [i will update if i see new figures]

I have posted previously: [click 1], [click 2], [click 3], [click 4].

This year, they planted on June 24th, expecting blossoming in late September. It is been hot and humid this summer, and the blossoms opened on August 18th.  A new entrance, and a new parking lot were cut in, and a drive was cut in for a new building going up.

People are free to visit, and enjoy family moments

Sunflowers are joyful, 1,2, 3.

 Cassius strolls through the sunflowers

women in glass

 Ruth the Moabitess (great grandmother of David) gleaned barley and wheat in the fields of Boaz to support her mother-in-law, Naomi.

 David, Moses, Melchizedek

These windows are in Lakewood Ohio, in the Episcopal (Anglican) Church of the Ascension. Some of the stained glass in churches are random, and some are themed, and some are placed in accordance to symmetry, and some in divisions.

The clerestory level has five double scened windows on each side of the nave, in total there are twenty scenes of the Life of Jesus (many are the Catholic mysteries of the rosary). The ground level has twelve men of the Old Testament, paired with twelve apostles of the New. The last nine of the Old Testament are prophets with named books. The first three are King David, Prophet Moses, and Priest Melchizedek; those three offices are also offices of Jesus.

Not many Roman Catholic churches have Old Testament references, other than Abraham (with Melchizedek, or Isaac), David in the choir, and Moses and Jeremias even less. One may encounter more in Eastern Churches. In Cuyahoga County, outside of Cleveland, the only well populated towns before WWII were East Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and Lakewood; so those are the places you can find certain artistic architecture.

 Sarah, Ruth, Esther

So of the twenty-four people on the ground level of the nave, there are no women. The church has a document (the studio of the windows is not mentioned) of the nave windows, one of two rose windows, six glass panels on the main entrance doors, and two other windows in a chapel (?) room. All these windows (except Mary in the Life of Jesus windows) are men. But in the narthex, there are two groupings of three windows of women of the Old and New Testaments. Of the forty-six books of the Old Testament, three are named after women (Ruth, Esther, Judith). [click for previous female saints on glass] Some Catholic churches balance statues of male and female saints (St. Stephen, and St. Stanislaus both in Cleveland), and fewer balance in glass. Other than Mary, the Mother of God, not that many female presentations of art are seen in many churches (of those churches that have art).

Priscilla, Esther

Saint Priscilla was Saint Aquila's wife. Emperor Claudius exiled Jews from Rome. Saint Paul met them in Corinth, and they were also tent makers. They became comrades in Christian evangelisation, and they too were martyred. Aquilla and Priscilla are mentioned six times in the New Testament.

Esther became Queen of the Persians. She and her uncle Mordecai saved the Jewish people from the murderous plans of (H)aman, the vizier of King Assuerus.

2018 Miscellany #9—summer pictures

I had two snaps at this one before the butterfly skedaddled. This one the foreground is in focus, and the brick background is fuzzy, in the other—vice versa. A couple of days before, a hummingbird posed for a second and flittered away. This coneflower does get visitors.

At lower Edgewater Park, there are merchants gathered at the triathlon. Looking at these wheels is as good as looking at the infinity mirrors installation at Cleveland Art Museum.

This tin man sits above a business on East 152nd in Collinwood. An earlier one had been shot up some. I found reference to this on Roadside America.  Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 Cleveland District had another tin man at their (old) union hall.

Last night was very pleasant at Hardesty Park on Market Street.  It seems everything in Akron is on Market Street, or a block away. The Akron Symphony Orchestra came. A bassist, looked through the early crowd to greet dogs. Why? because dogs are great. They played Sousa, movie scores, music from Alfred Hitchcock [Good evening], and the Barber came out. Cicadas had a musical statement to play, while the playground equipment was much in use.

 Barbara O'Brien on a Carmen Fantasy

 Dancers form Akron University accompanied four numbers

Twelfth Night

Cleveland Shakespeare Festival is presenting Twelfth Night, as a c.1938 radio play. It works well. One of their adaptations is a minor character, Fabian, a servant to Olivia is doubled as the Fabian Sisters, who recite some of Toby Belch's lines. [aside: Toby Belch sounds like a Dickensian creation]

Orsino (Meshal Al Sunaid), Valentine (Natalie Grace Sipula)  

the back of the card reads, "Western Union Telegram"

Andrew Aguecheek (Chris Ross) presents himself to the audience before coming to the stage. His performance i found more likable than a 1996 film performance, i recently viewed.

Toby Belch (Joseph Milan) and Feste (Amy Scwabauer) drunkenly sing, as Malvolio is awakened and disturbed.

 The costuming of this version looked good.

Malvolio (Allen Branstein) displays cross gartered yellow stockings. I just had watched the 1996 Trevor Nunn/BBC film, Nigel Hawthorne played the role. I found Branstein more entertaining.

 Captain America watches the play

Antonio ((Keith Kornajcik) under arrest

photographs of abandoned places #18

Longaberger Basket Company, Newark Ohio

Hillary Clinton was right in so many things she said. Here is a basket that would fit many deplorables. It is a seven storey basket. I don't know whether this building is abandoned, it was sold in December 2017, but it looks like it is still for sale. It is a Gulliver expansion (160X) replica of the company's best selling model, the medium market basket.

This building was built in 1997 for $32 million dollars. It and 21 acres were sold for $1.2 million and back taxes of $800+ thousand. The company founder had died, the business was sold, the building became vacant in 2016.

science re-scheduled

There was supposed to be a science demonstration in downtown Cleveland on the 14th of April. It was postponed due to rain. It popped up to-day, on Wade Oval. There were six or eight some speakers, very rational, very measured, sincere, but not very emotional. They tried to be very non-partisan, but do go out and vote for the science friendly candidate, so the present situation can approve.

One of several points made was that science is self-correcting. Evidence is important, and does prove or disprove a case. Motivation of people matters, because there is fake science. Appeals were made to people because of personal experience of medical cures, that were only valuable because of research. Climate change is real, and no honest and sentient being would say otherwise. The food that sustains us has been improved generation by generation because of purposely selective agricultural methods. The polio vaccine gave relief to so many, because it prevented a feared disease. Solar energy, and nuclear energy works.

 "Science not Silence"

 "Science the Universal Solution"

A reference to a popular television programme, Game of Thrones, in regards to later winters are coming.

There was a good number of canines in the crows. Kerrigan the Doberman is referring to another television programme based on a novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

Remember Monty Python? This is not him. He came with a comrade who was wearing an infowars tee shirt, and carrying camera. This knight had a bullhorn and sword, which he didn't use. He spoke at a couple of Anti-fascist protesters, about how deceptive and worthless communism is. He also spoke about artificial clouds created by unmarked planes, and several other matters. He has come to other demonstrations.