Hudson O.

Karma & Perun visiting in late March find a rubber duck promotion.

 Door 2 Art Studio. The Wonder Within. 2021.

Peep, one of three duck balloons visiting for a month.

Scooter with butterfly

Sunny

good looking signage

James W.  Ellsworth  *1849, 1925†, town's most successful son and benefactor.

2026 Miscellany #4

A tom turkey failing to impress hens at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland.

A znamenja [sign, symbol] shrine at Saint Vitus Cleveland.  It will have four paintings, this is the first Marija Pomagaj Brežje.  Mary Help of Christians is the national Madonna of the Slovenes. The others are Bl. Anton Martin Slomšek, Ven. Frederic Baraga (Apostle to the Ojibwe), and a local priest who served two Slovene parishes in Cleveland.

organ pipes in stone, by an entrance at St. Vitus

Fire escape, can't think of another on a church.

It was warm on Holy Saturday [April 4]. Man and dog walking in Ukrainian Garden.

Passed this many times, there is a yard of chestnut trees. A buckeye is a horse chestnut.

daffodils of the most early spring during a lull in the yo-yo weather

Akron on Good Friday

Seminarian Alex inside of St. Bernard's central front door.

Praying by St. Joseph altar.

Holy Spirit clerestory window above high altar.

To-day we are in the 40 Hours of the Triduum, the most solemn time of the year. The tabernacle is empty, St. Bernard Akron.

Reflection of St. Anthony's outside on window of St. Filip Neri.

Prodeo is Latin, sometimes translated as go forth, advance.

North Main Street experiencing heavy construction.

Girl with Guitar. North Main, Akron.

two robots on an abandoned building  on North Main

Alfombras 2026

Karma enters to see the Alfombras.  My greyhounds have always been welcomed here. An artist finishes the last portion of the whole. We we were the first to see the complete work.

 

Los Alfombras de Semana Santa en La Sagrada Familia Cleveland están listos para ser pisados.

Cleveland is blessed to have a Meso-American community to share their sense of beauty, grace, and devotion of sanctity. 

Cleveland tiene la dicha de contar con una comunidad mesoamericana que comparte su sentido de la belleza, la gracia y la devoción por lo sagrado.

It is a tradition to have colorful carpets of flowers and sawdust to be processed over on Black Friday of Jesus's Passion.

Bad Bunny understood what Jesus taught.

Simple, clear, beautiful — i especially enjoyed this one. I heard it was done by Walter.

 Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patroness of the Americas.

Holy Week carpet with palms

Jesus and his cross

The Lost Lamb made with cotton balls and in a patch of flowers.

Mary of Bethany wipes the feet of Jesus with her hair.

Michael defeats the Devil. 

No Kings, No Crowns, No Clowns

 28 March 2026 — Parma O. & America —  Ω ☨

Patriots gathered across the land in town squares, and along thoroughfares.  

The weather varies across the continent.  In the northeast corner of Ohio, the morning was at or below freezing, with a trace of small snowflakes drifting through occasionally.

28 March 2026 — Parma O. & America — Ω ☨

There were many points that needed to be aired.

Trump is evil a priori, and that evil creates more evil.

Sometimes for a good foto snap a rise in elevation helps.

George Santayana had similar thoughts:

•  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
• The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.
• A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Again, statements must be aired.

America is now not among the free lands of democracy, yet some people intend to return it so.

Humor helps, the Devil does not like to be mocked. He must be mocked, and ridiculed.

As Professor Timothy Snyder says, "Protest brings joy. It feels good to be active and to be with other people. It dispels the loneliness we might experience when we are alone or online. When we realize that we are with millions of others, we feel we can make a difference, because we are making a difference: in the world, and in ourselves." 

All we are saying...

abandoned places #47 & 2026 Miscellany #3

Miles Park Presbyterian Church Newburgh built 1869-1872 lasted until coronavirus-19 hit in March 2020.  Cleveland annexed the village in 1873. Across the street was Miles Park Methodist originally, it was abandoned and burned down two years ago. The Methodist church became a Pentecostalist, and the Presbyterian became a Baptist church, such goes the devolution of churches in cities when they undergo urban decay.  Often Baptist churches do not use the title, and that is not tied to socio-economic status.

Portion of the remaining 19th C? glass. The only marking were intertwined Ss on the two balcony windows. that were behind an amber window. There was really no hints any of the glass was ecclesial. The same glass could have been in any secular setting. Some of the glass did have the names of donors.

Lorain Carnegie Bridge four, double faced, art deco sandstone pylon sculptures. The figures are collectively the Guardians of Traffic. On the corner where Carnegie begins there is an American League baseball park. For the last few years, the team has been the Guardians.

On the west side of the bridge, there is a neighborhood of houses under the pylons. Here it was easy to get up close and personal with a camera.

Just a little further up Carnegie is this advertisement for Palantir, which is unknown to most people. Palantir makes software for surveillance for government agencies, and corporations.  It is spyware.  The chairman of the corporation is Peter Thiel, a German born evangelical queer, who is anti-democracy, and chief sponsor of his former employee, JD Vance.  He has, or is giving currently, secret lectures in Rome about Anti-Christ & Armageddon.  Thiel thinks geniuses like him [sic] should rule.