horses on the beach

The first wave of Canadians take the shore in Cleveland.(joke)

The fourth "Ride the Beach" fundraiser for Cleveland Metroparks Mounted Unit

 

Marshmallow, also called Moose, is a mule.

Cassius sphinxing on the beach.

Another dog owning a spot on the beach.

Great American Sidewalks—Cleveland Museum of Art

I like seeing this every year. This year, it is a week or two earlier in September. Look at my past September posts, and you can see. Last year, it was not done because of the virus. Usually it is Saturday, and Sunday. This year, just Sunday. Some people can really draw well, and have a sense of humour.

The text is an abbreviation of the first part of Exodus, chapter 8. 

And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Let my people go to sacrifice to me. But if thou wilt not let them go behold I will strike all thy coasts with frogs. And the river shall bring forth an abundance of frogs: which shall come up, and enter into thy house, and thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and in the houses of thy servants, and to thy people, and into thy ovens, and into the remains of thy meats; And the frogs shall come in to thee and to thy people, and to all thy servants. And the Lord said to Moses: Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand upon the streams and upon the rivers and the pools, and bring forth frogs upon the land of Egypt.

Johannes Vermeer. Girl with a Pearl Earring. c. 1665. The Hague. 

This painting has been chalked here before [click].

Squirrel with a Pearl Earring

Sometimes, people have chalked works that are inside the museum. This scene, from where the chalking can be done, is worth copying.

Pépé le Moko, 1937, was a great film. Jean Gabin played the title rôle wonderfully. An American copy was made with Charles Boyer. Warner Brothers had inspiration for their character, Pépé le Pew. Cartoon characters are abundant in the chalkings.
 

Flags for Honor

These flags are at Lower Edgewater for the weekend, with a primary remembrance this year for those killed on the attack upon America on 11 September 2001. These were supplied by FBI Cleveland Citizens Academy Alumni Association. Other flags include remembrances for medical personnel who died in treating covid patients. Others are for the living and dead in the military, and for firemen, and police.

Cassius and Karma walk the path of beautiful US flags flying in a light breeze.

for Ira Hayes

for one of the last 13 American servicemen killed in Afghanistan

 

Labor Day morning foto safari

 coreopsis field, Huntington Metropark, Bay Village

By folk, and media, usage in the United States, summer begins with Decoration/Memorial Day, and ends with Labor Day. Year following year, i notice it is time to visit the same sites. A new addition is this field of flowers. Monday, the weather was easy and conducive for sightseeing, and random driving about. The traffic, excepting Edgewater Park, was light. Also made it to Maria's Sunflower Field in Avon, but the flowers were not up. In the past, they have changed varieties, but early September some at least would be in bloom.

monarch butterfly

Other people ride with wolves too.

 

 

This stunted tree grows above Lake Erie, next to Avon Lake electric plant, sort of bonsai shaped.

Tyler Barn is in Rocky River Metropark, and was seen in a car commercial.

Wayne style visible gas pump came in 1923. Texaco Fire Chief gasoline started in 1932, banjo sign in 1936. This was in someone's driveway, don't know whether it is a mixed replica, or not.

reminds one of ohio state

 

$34½ million paint job

 

1929 Lorain Bridge over Rocky River, and Metropark connects Cleveland to Fairview Park

 

The scaffolding is reminiscent of gondolas on a Ferris wheel.

Vaccination

Diego Rivera. Vaccination. 1932-3. Detroit.

Edsel Ford had Diego Rivera paint 27 Detroit Industry murals in the former garden court of Detroit Institute of Arts. On the north wall, the chief, central, and largest was autoworkers making the V-8 engines. In the upper right corner was a much smaller mural. This was the one, in which, part of respectable Detroit was in an uproar.

One of the raging issues in the United States to-day is vaccination for the corona virus. Currently, the US is number 1 in having the disease--MAGA. Physicians, scientists, and reporters have termed the present crisis as the "epidemic of the unvaccinated"--MAGA.

Fearful, frightened, superstitious, ignorant, and stupid people have been against vaccinations before. Small pox was a deadly [30%], and disfiguring, and often blinding disease. It was with mankind before civilisation, and killed countless millions. By the late 18th century, it was known that people who worked with cows, and horses did not get small pox. In 1796 Edward Jenner put the theory into scientific practice. His inoculations, he called vaccines [vacca=cow].

In 1902 Cambridge Massachusetts had small pox, and the city had a mandatory vaccination campaign. Henning Jacobson refused. In 1905 Supreme Court ruled that compulsory laws were allowable to prevent communicable diseases.

My parents had three small pox inoculation scars on their upper arm. For years i could see a small scar on my upper arm. The World Health Organisation declared small pox eradicated in 1980. I had to get vaccinated for several diseases to enter school. I caught chicken pox, measles, and German measles in the first three years of school. Those vaccines were not readily available then. Those experiences were terrible. I wish those vaccines had been available then!

Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. It was not publicly available until after WWII. The big push for quantity was to be ready for D-Day invasion. I received penicillin, and was very happy to get it.

Rivera was the pre-eminent Mexican muralist. He was also a communist, and atheist. He had several Christian given names—Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao. He may have not believed, but he was familiar with imagery.

Rivera saw other factories besides the Ford Rouge plant. He went to the Parke-Davis drug makers. Scientists were working on vaccines for polio, and other things in the early 1930s. Polio (or a polio like disease) struck Franklin Roosevelt. Thanks to Jonas Salk's work (and others), we do not have polio as a worry. Elvis Presley received his vaccination at the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.  

Rivera has Three Wise Men in a laboratory, he had faith in medical science. Animals were sourced for medicines, and they were in the stable that the Holy Family lodged. A doctor, and nurse (Jean Harlow), and vaccinated child are another triad in the mural.

When the murals were open to the public on 21 March 1933 there was controversy. Detroit had three dailies, and they were not pleased. A councilman wanted them painted over. Some religious figures considered the work sacrilegious. Father Coughlin was not happy.

Since then, some people have seen a positive religious allusion. The Magi, the Three Kings, give gifts to children on Epiphany. This has been noted by the current museum director [click].

market square project

11th commandment broken: thou shalt not rat

one stone eagle, many live pigeons

 

fingers

There are four art deco Guardians of Traffic pylons on the Lorain Carnegie Bridge. Each pylon has two carved Berea sandstone statues.

In Cleveland it gets cold enough, in winter, to freeze off your fingers. Why do you think God made gloves?

another one, also seen from Centennial Trail Link below

seen from Abbey Road

 

next to the cleveland post card mural on chatham

Kyle Holbrook. "Peace" Stop Gun Violence. 2021. Cleveland.

Finally saw this. I read a story from WEWS5, "mural is located at the corner of West 25th Street and Gehring Avenue." Typical, and frequent journalism error.

This is more accurate of the location. I do not miss construction.

There were street signs on a utility pole two steps away, and on the first house beyond the the utility pole. The reason for the snark is, that, i went two days trying to find it. I was a car passenger, and could only see the fenced in construction site.

I was thinking, why was it not next to the Cleveland post card mural on Chatham? That spot usually has vehicles parked by it, and to-day there were three electrical line trucks with man lifts there. The paintings were only visible while walking, or standing, on the sidewalk.

Holbrook is a painter from Pittsburgh. He has been painting messages, around the country, to stop gun violence.

ghost sign visible in the alley

a few steps away