Just a quick batch of photos including glitz (Playhouse Square and the world's largest outdoor chandelier), fog (views from Voinovich Park), chop (treacherous waves on Lake Erie) and a few from the West side near Edgewater Park but it's a pretty random set this time around.

 

 

 

 

 

AT&T Huron Road - why not!

 

A quick detour to the newly opened Westin hotel:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll try not to be massively critical ... of this photo from Critical Mass:

 

The former Board of Education building, being redeveloped into a Drury Plaza hotel - gotta love the sun filtering through the lower windows.

 

 

Just two random pics from the Hope Memorial Bridge:

 

 

And then off to the West - specifically Avon Lake for a party; en route, the larger homes along Lake Road:

 

 

 

 

The view of downtown from our destination - note the rough chop on the Lake. The two-tone effect is sediment being churned up closer to the shore. While we were at the party we saw a Coast Guard helicopter circling - turns out someone drowned trying to rescue a young girl who was caught in a rip current. Folks, anytime you see Lake Erie looking like this, please be careful.

 

 

The distance shots don't quite capture how rough the water can get - Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes aka the most volatile.

 

 

 

Not a smudge on the lense, flocks of birds:

 

Back to my neighborhood of Tremont, shots of the Innerbelt bridge being dismantled:

 

 

 

How about that - part of the Innerbelt reconfiguration included an overlook park and people are actually using it!  :-)

 

Over to the West side again - this time just to the Edgewater/Clifton area:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The beach at Edgewater Park - I'm hearing the place is vastly improved since the Metroparks took over:

 

Normally I get upset when I forget to swap out the telephoto lense but these next few shots of the historic homes on Lake Avenue... I dunno, I kinda like how they turned out:

 

 

 

 

 

But it's time to head home

 

 

I'm all for 'placemaking', directional signage and highlighting neighborhood features but the subheads of "______ district" seem a bit much.

 

The bad news - the bicycle lane is closed ahead. The good news - it will reopen after new market-rate apartments open in a spot that will help link those aforementioned "_____ districts" :) Hope you enjoyed!

 

 

 

Looks like you had some fun MayDay!  Thanks for the great shots of Cleveland!

Diggin' those shots from your "destination."

That shot of the wayfinding signage to me just screams the need for a comprehensive citywide wayfinding system.  Beautiful set otherwise!

Always awesome!

Nice set. You sure do like boats! :)

 

Two of my favorite pics.... A lone person contemplating something probably very personal amid a mass of humanity that is a city:

 

 

 

This photo wrecks a stereotype about Lake Erie, that it's impossible for structures to get up close and intimate with it -- without the lake ultimately destroying it in a storm:

 

Fog + Terminal Tower = Winning Shot

Fog + Terminal Tower = Winning Shot

 

Absolutely. Cold lake plus sunny warm days = a good deal of San Francisco Bay effect going around lately!

Awesome shots! Thanks for sharing.