mechanical swans

another new thing at Lake View

bench gets a reader

see: (click)

Fibonacci spiral and Dante's Purgatorio

From time to time new grave markers appear at Lake View Cleveland that are artistic statements. On Daffodil Hill this stone had two highlights of our shared cultural patrimony. On one side Fibonacci's spiral (arcs connecting the squares of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21); on the other the end of the Purgatorio in Dante's Divine Comedy.

'Chappy'

One of the most visited graves in Lake View Cemetery Cleveland is that of a ball player killed while playing with the Indians in the year they first won the World Series (1920). Ray Chapman was a fan favorite. It was the largest funeral in Cleveland, and controversial (he had converted to Catholicism).

Grave gifts left by visitors are remembrances and reverse souvenirs. I remember you, i made this visit to you, here is a memento i leave behind.

To the right of the white cap is a small ball with the writing, "Thanks Ray". Another ball has "Help" and the members of a ball team. Some come as pilgrims to ask for intervention, or to acknowledge intervention.

Mother's Day Concert

All Saints/All Souls

The above is a foto from a cemetery in Lithuania on All Saints. This was borrowed from a Filipino page in English. They had remarked something like "they decorate as we do". Over these days, the Catholic world does visit graveyards, and even some countries that once were Catholic do the same. Some bring flowers, some bring candles. Some do it on the weekend, some on November 1st, some on the 2nd.

But, in the United States, even in a large Catholic cemetery, the only color visiting is the changing of the leaves.

Sunday afternoon and the living creatures were mostly wild. I did not see a handful of people, and i was a part of a party of two.

urban graveyard

near Prospect