ledger closed

cleaning Garfield

Scaffold is neat, there is scaffold going up around the Garfield Monument, which is being cleaned. For a couple of weeks, the entrance will be closed; after that visitors can return while outside work will continue. There is an information tent nearby. We came with the hounds Friday, the guy there was happy to see us. He was bored, and once had a saluki. A family from out of town came by next, they expressedly came to tour the monument and were disappointed.

 power washing a century of soot away

Before the scaffolding went up, a drone counted sixteen trees growing on the monument. Tuck pointing will be done.

wearing of the green

Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery allows people to stroll with hounds. There is not much decoration around graves. But someone decided to decorate for St. Patrick's Day of the Irish.

solid geometry

obelisk, sphere, pyramid

feisty memorial

 

On Election Day, at Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery, i saw a new stone memorial. The stele had a column on the left, and a painted diamond above the family name. There also was a bench. The married couple, look by the inscription, to be still alive. They can come and look at their memorial.

  If the diamond was like a base ball diamond, look just before first base.

 Part of the memorial was a bench with these words on top.

color at Lake View

Yesterday would have been better, regarding leaf color.  This year, autumn leaves came late. High color came after the fourth week of October, and rain continued for days. Yesterday had that rare combination of sun and comfortable temperature. To-day, the rain was ended by dawn, and the temperature started out as warm, and there was continuous wind. The leaves falling was accelerated. Lake View Cemetery was still in very good color, maybe not to-morrow.

 

Haserot is a frozen food company. Someone left a pumpkin, perhaps for All Hallows.

Cassius demonstrates that black is colorful.

stenciling

Stones are not so much carved, now, they are air stenciled. Compressed air removes the stone.