Well thanks to a healthy dose of whatever bronchio-virus that was going around I haven't been able to get out much to take photos as much as I'd like. I took photos of the 2013 Leg Lamp 5K/10K in December and earlier this month I paid a visit to the newly opened West wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art:

 

First up, the Leg Lamp 5K/10K - proceeds went to the neighborhood around the Christmas Story House in the southern end of Tremont. Since we have plenty of snow on the ground, I figured I might as well get caught up and post these now.

 

It was an interesting race that attracted *serious* runners...

 

 

 

Wait a sec, is that Scut Farkas? Nah, he didn't have *yellow eyes*  :-o

 

 

Balloon archway en route to the finish line:

 

So there were serious runners and then... the first of many pink nightmares (and leg lamps, Black Bart and his marauders, the Old Man, you name it!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"It was ... soap ... poisoning!" - I told you not to use Lifebuoy!

 

 

Alright, enough running around, let's head over to the "soft glow of electric sex".

 

 

Quite a few of the neighbors go to town decorating for the holidays:

 

There it is, good old Cleveland street, err - West 12th and The Christmas Story House:

 

 

 

 

I think they had over 10,000 runners?

 

 

 

 

And the nightmares continue:

 

Enough of the low-brow silliness, next up is the newly opened West wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art, containing Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian art. If you haven't been yet - GO. These are the pieces that were squirreled away in a cramped area back in the day. They're now displayed properly and it's just an amazing collection and setting. Oh, and it's FREE. I've had a handful of pics of downtown Cleveland lying around so we'll take a quick detour first:

 

Poor guy could use a scarf:

 

The "canyon" of Walnut Street - 200 Public Square looks like a beast from this angle, imho:

 

Euclid Avenue - I haven't worked downtown for a few years; there's a lot more pedestrian traffic than I remember  :clap:

 

The Colonial Arcade:

 

Key Tower and 200 Public Square from Huron Road - I'd love for this view to be blocked (aka infill construction on the parking lot)

 

Don't worry, I would never omit the Terminal Tower:

 

Okay *now* we're heading over to the art museum - en route, the Industrial Valley:

 

 

Downtown from I77 north - again, it'd be nice to see that gap filled with a decent-sized tower but ah well:

 

Alright, we made it - the new atrium is an amazing space. The restaurant (Provenance), not so much - especially the service, especially for what you pay for a saltblock burger. Oh well, we'll just hit up L'Albatros going forward.

 

 

Here we are at the entrance of the Indian galleries:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This artwork is just amazi... oooh! SQUIRREL! DEER!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

One area has a group of small-scale illustrations - I highly recommend grabbing one of the magnifying glasses to really appreciate the details. One rather jarring illustration depicted a woman who betrayed her husband and tried to frame another woman... she ended up decapitated and sure enough, they drew it!  :-P

 

 

Over to the Chinese gallery:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This scroll is HUGE:

 

 

This is about the size of a baseball - look at the detail:

 

 

 

 

Time to head out, one last shot from the Japanese gallery - hope you enjoyed!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks, MayDay!

Thanks for the great pics, and hope you are feeling better. 

Love the wacky looking race which I will be doing net year...? 

The museum ones speak for themselves, and whoever hasn't been yet needs to go. 

And the sweet deer I had seen around since late summer and had worried about them since they seemed so far from seclusion, but they seem to be doing ok after all.

This is really cool MayDay, thanks for capturing the fun spirit of that run..could be Cleveland's version of "Bay to Breakers".

Thanks!

The run looks like fun--thanks for the pics!