It's a hard life wherever you go

is the title of song by Nanci Griffith. She expands on it, but the sentence has been said by many before she wrote and sang.

Huron is a short street, behind the Terminal Tower, it connects Superior to Ontario in Cleveland. I have snapped at this neon guitar before. This time i was behind the wheel, and handed the camera to my nephew. It was raining.

I do not like promoting business establishments, they do nothing for me and they appreciate nothing; but this is fine signage. There is another meaning for "hard rock", as in mining. The opening cut of an album released in 1988 by the Cowboy Junkies had an arrangement of [presumably] an old folk work song, Mining for Gold. It begins:

We are miners, hard rock miners
To the shaft house we must go...

it has a verse:

Can't you feel the rock dust in your lungs?
It'll cut down a miner when he is still young
Two years and the silicosis takes hold
And I feel like I'm dying from mining for gold

quatorze juillet

more porch geese

bee?, honey? bumble? wasp? hornet?

patriotic for the Day of Independence

a gander in the morning 

So far it was an unusually rainy summer. What about St. Swithun's? [click]

goose with red hat

 from another season

Mondale/Ferraro

much better than what we did get

Sometimes, we put a sticker on a car and it stays there. I drive about and i see a sticker with a 'W' or a Palin sticker, i invariably say out loud, "idiot". Here is a 1984 presidential sticker on a much younger car. I suppose, i can get a "We stand for Roosevelt".

this project is a failure

i have posts for bastille, hallowe'en, armistice day, and a few that may remain dormant. the hard rock post may be the valedictory.

stained glass

new camera. 1/640 second, ƒ/5

high window and globe light fixtures, St. Andrew Kim Cleveland

not an ashtray

One of two outside a pavilion with a large hearth and chimney, a selection of rocks in a large clay pipe end. 1 May 2013. Parma Metropark.

 It is a rain chain, which substitutes for a downspout. 5 July 2013.

peace dove in the garden

 St. Paul's Community Church (UCC) Cleveland on Franklin & W. 45

cash plate

“Hell-o, my name is Johnny Cash.”

“Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day 
  And tell the world that everything's okay 
  But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back  
  Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.”

red bellied woodpecker

 

blue heron fishing

cleveland city hall lobby

investigative squirrel

my fish caught

cedar waxwing