2025 Miscellany #14 — bird sightings & other stuff

 Parrot spotted on Storer (west side Cleveburgh), painted by Ariel Vergez.

Toucan  on the same wall (west side Cleveburgh)

Possible Raven on Walton (also a west sider), by Ariel Vergez

seen on West 25th Cleveland O.

west side Cleveland, near St. Rocco's

S. Ursula & S. Angela

Usually Saint is abbreviated as St.,  here it is S., with the lettering style i first read as Sangria. It currently is in the rear atrium of  Villa Angela St Joseph. Before the merger the Ursulines had Villa Angela Academy. This glass was created by Sr. Lucia Vasko OSU. She was schooled at Villa Angela, and was an art teacher there. The window was part of the Ursuline Sisters' old Motherhouse.

St. Michael's seen from Walton & Twinkie Lane.

St. Michael's is visible from many spots. The cross from the taller spire [click] was removed in 2009. Here they are seen above an electrical substation.

Perun surveys German style beer stand at Cuyahoga fairgrounds.

Sims Park Euclid is about to open a new walk with signs, benches, native plants.

red headed woodpecker at Sims

Canadian geese coming in from the lake at Sims.

Perun

Perun

I have written before on the naming of dogs. Some like to give their hound an impressive name. They I have written before on the naming of dogs. Some like to give their hound an impressive name.  They have named them after pagan gods.  I have met dogs named Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Zeus, Loki, and Huitzilopochtli.  Perun was the chief god of all the Slavonic peoples, and some of the Baltic peoples called him Perkunas, he was known to the Finns, and among some of the Scandinavians he replaced Thor.  He had the same function of Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, and Indra for other peoples.  Perun was a sky god of thunder, lightning, and war.  Perun fell before Christianity's advance. The last Europeans to still have Per(k)un(as) were the Lithuanians.

Now i have welcomed a City Dog from the Cleveland Kennel. They tell me he is partly Labrador retriever.  He is a pup in the middle of his first year.  He is now — Perun, awe in his majesty, tremble in his presence, fear his displeasure.

a plate on a car in the parking lot

We were warmly treated by Cleveland Kennel staff and City Dogs Cleveland. Perun is an exuberant, happy pup. Perun has a sweet disposition, and is alert.  Karma is tolerant with his antics.

2025 Miscellany #13 — Cleveland

Terminal Tower, once only second in height to the Empire State Bldg., is Cleveland's most recognisable secular building. It is visible from many spots of the city, and fotos engaging an alignment with or through other objects can be shot. This is through Wendy's Bridge on Whiskey island. 

St. Michael's or St. Theodosius is the most easily recognisable building in Cleveland. May 28th last year, roofers caught the building on fire. The large central dome w burned so badly, it had to be removed. Now there is a temporary cap in its stead. In this foto one of the smaller domes is in the parking lot.

There is a stretch of Interstate 90 on the west side where in succession one can see St. Patrick's, St. Stephen's, St. Colman's, and St. Ignatius of Antioch are visible. St. Stephen's  is the only one on a residential side street. Here is a view from West 52nd. [also click]

some construction on Euclid Beach 

School is starting up, and athletics are there before classes start.

Sculpture portraying dog in motion catching a frisbee disc. I think it was installed last December. I do not know the sculptor, but i have seen his work elsewhere, and can't remember where.

This is new this year on Cleveland's Lorain Avenue. The building houses a small French café. Perhaps this is a Gallic coq, i have to ask Marianne. 

Perhaps, the only tricolour in Cleveland is in front of a shop on Detroit.

2025 Miscellany #12 — Northeast Ohio

Octopus sighting, west side Cleveland, saloon and restaurant.

Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park.  Nelson Twp. Portage Co. O. 

These ledges were a result of the Wisconsin Glaciation. That ice movement also excavated the Great Lakes.

Within the park a new addition, bridge over Sylvan Creek Gorge. A section is glass, perhaps the first day it was see through, smudges and water condensation have made it cloudy. Other parts are slotted with narrow gaps, and visibility is there.

Lake View Beach. Lorain. O. on a day Lake Erie was inhospitable.

French crusader mount on carousel Sheffield. O. carnival

The big sheep ahead of four small sheep advertising mattresses, west side Cleveland.

April 14th. Ascension Episcopal. Oldest congregation in Lakewood O, marking Lent in their 150th year.

it's a bird, it's a plane, it's...

David Deming. Superman Group. 2025. Cleveland. 

Man of (stainless) steel, born on the planet Krypton. He was an alien to this world, an undocumented immigrant who believed in truth and justice. He maintains a rigid moral code to do good. He believes in Democracy, and fought Fascism. In America in the late 1930s, this was possible; but now America has fascism in the highest places. Future episodes could be film noir.

Joanne Carter Siegel (Lois Lane), illustrator Joe Shuster, writer Jerry Siegel (bronze)

Joe and Jerry met in the neighborhood high school, Glenville.

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   Drawing of the cover of Action Comics #1, April 18, 1938.

inside the telephone booth

New to Rocky River Metropark. a giant wood duck, already popular with small children to climb.

For some years, people have clothed cement geese on their lawns and porches. These large skeletons were sold to decorate for Hallowe'en, some are getting the same type of seasonal sartorial changes.
 

Republican deluge

 

When you tell the truth, Republicans become enraged, and vicious. Adam Zyglis drew a cartoon depicting reality, and the consequences of Republican propaganda, and rule.  He, and his family have been threatened, and office holding Republicans are in an uproar. That bubble quote, is from Ronnie Reagan. He is the point when and where America started to go downhill. Reaganistas begat the busheviks, the busheviks begat the trumpsters. Ronnie had dementia, and far sooner than people would like to admit. gwbjr & Don-the-Con were rich, stupid, and spoiled children, who got away with everything. They were failures, who were constantly protected from consequences. After each idiot regime America was a worse place. All three regimes tried to control the message given to Americans, the rest of the world never believed the lies.

 

Guadalupe has flooded Kerr County in the past: 1869, 1900, 1932, 1936, 1959, 1978, 1987, 2002. The floods would happen, but preparation could have reduced casualties, and damage; but that was not good for business and the party. Do not build in flood plains, the government has accurate maps. 

 

Climate change has altered the weather, and the consequences are increased intensity of phenomena. But climate change is not a subject that the oil industry,  moneyed interests, and the Republican Party allow to be discussed. Scientific study and evidence is either ignored, or attacked. Those who engage in such activities, and honest reporting of such are vilified, threatened, and have their jobs disappear. Trump wants FEMA* to disappear, gwbjr. & #rump put idiots in charge.

 

There are government agencies that do work to help. They are attacked, especially by the current federal regime. Texas government does so likewise. Texas government has been an affront to humanity for three decades. There is no delay in having money to put razor wire in the Rio Grande, but money for warning sirens (when available) is not used. We know the bad actors in this, but they have power, so they are not allowed to be shown up, and they are eager to attack.

 

Then their crocodile tears hypocrisy immediately appear. "It is not the time to politicise the tragedy", after they have long, and continuously politicised the grounds and environments that cause tragedies. "Thoughts & prayers" they call for.  Adequate preventative action was needed, and future action is needed. How many thoughts and prayers fit in the back of a hearse?   — Ω ☨ 

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* Federal Emergency Management Agency

Coffee is going to cost

When i was child, and went to the food market with my father, some places had coffee:  Italian roast, French roast, Viennese roast, German roast, and American roast. Eventually the last two were combined as American roast. Now, there are so many, and are vaguely differentiated. I read some books written by reporters. Charles Kuralt mentioned that the further west one went in America, the weaker the coffee became. I think Garrison Keillor said in a sketch, that the mid-West was the land of weak coffee. There was Turkish coffee too, i thought it was strong coffee with the grounds in the cup; but now i read it was roast so dark that it looked like charcoal. 

Coffee Song, Frank Sinatra [click]

Orange Caligula wants a 50% tariff on Brasil, because the former president is on trial for attempting to overthrow the government. Bolsonaro was in *rump's mold, he was a dictator, and a putschist. After *rump failed in a coup; Bolsonaro did too. But unlike *rump, he is on trial for it. This makes *rump livid, and being a power mad sadist, he wants to attack and punish people.

The United States is now under a fascist regime. Der Führer (leader) is quite insane. How did this catastrophe befall on the world? There are two reasons: Firstly institutional; the Republican Party, and moneyed interests are increasingly conservative [fascist]. That party is a criminal cult. There are two major sections of the press/media: the corporate [moneyed interests], and the propaganda right wing [moneyed interests, and the extremely fanatically disturbed] press/media. These have accelerated, and the fantastical outrages increase in magnitude and frequency. A large number are crazier than outhouse rats, and have been so for decades. One evilton was Joe McCarthy, another living evilton is Newt Gingrich.  There are many in the Republican Congress that are stupid, and psychotic; and they represent parts of the country that will accept any hateful buffoon. Orange Caligula is demented, stupid, vicious, cowardly; he is a malignant narcissist. He is an incurable psychopath. *rump is of the Devil.

Secondly popular; there is a large segment of the population that has accepted the decades of propaganda. Those who voted for *rump, and his party have sinned a great sin. As with *rump, they are motivated by greed and hate, primarily hate.

One must remember, *rump began his 2015 campaign with a crazed anti-Mexican speech. Now he has expanded government agencies into a personal Gestapo. Republicans, and his idiot minions are good with that [well until it hits them]. And that and a nickel will not get you coffee.

2025 Miscellany #11 — half year gone

Solstice Steps Lakewood O, June 20 at 10:42 p.m. June 17:  that stripe at bottom is a line that projects out where the sun sets on the summer solstice.

Rain forest dome behind construction fence, Cleveland Zoo

new mural by Kelle Schwab under bridge at Settlers' Landing Cleveland

detail

part of entrance gate for annual Asian [Chinese] Lantern promotion

For the first time Parade the Circle had to be rescheduled [rain]. The format changed to the lawn and lagoon of the original entrance to the art museum. One of the musicians practicing in the sun.

an owl creation

bird with binoculars, for a change

lily on Wade Oval 

Do "Bible believers" really believe?

Different translations, same meanings.

Leviticus (3rd Book of Moses) xix. 33-4 (as are the others).

Some Americans loudly claim they are "Bible believing christians".

Many of the same vote reflexively, some fervently, for Republicans.

The logic of the syllogism does not hold. The two premises do not agree.

Now, Jesus was a logician, "No man can serve two masters".

There is a great incongruity. Those who claim to be both Bible believers and Republicans are being false. They are liars. The true conclusion of the syllogism would be:  Bible believing christians are not voting for Republicans.

They worship a false god.