Today was the first day I went back to work in the office - I'm very fortunate to still be employed, and to have been able to work from home. A few things:

 

1. Thank you to those who have been snapping and posting photos all this time. Please keep it up, I speak for a lot of forumers when I say it's very much appreciated.
2. Finally seeing the boarded up windows in person was jarring, to say the least.
3. Hopefully the issues that lead up to the damaged property get the attention and resolution they need. That more than anything will determine if Cleveland is able to move forward, with and for everyone. I don't know what the solutions are, but we can't keep going on with the way things have been. Windows will be repaired, but our fractured City needs to face up to a lot if we truly want to heal and continue growing
4. I typically shoot with a DSLR, but it's a lot to lug around on a lunch break (or as has been lately a walk on the Towpath with our Pug). These are just some shots with a Canon SX620 point and shoot - not going for portfolio candidate pics, just grabbing some images in the moment.

 

One silver lining, not that Cleveland ever had bad traffic, but my commute from Tremont to my office is less than ten minutes:

 

The Goodyear Blimp doing a flyover of Northeast Ohio health care facilities - 2020 may not be a good year, but it's a great gesture:

 

Forumer @Boaty McBoatface posted some visually great but disturbing images of the results of the May 30th rioting and looting so I didn't think I needed to rehash that. However, this spot was a bit of a gut punch - in 2016 during the Cavs championship parade, the base of the column was my perch to get a better elevated view. A young African American mom and her kids were on the sidewalk in front of me and I heard one of the kids say they couldn't see anything. I scooted over, said "come on up!" (okay, I did kindly ask the kids to not bump me ? ), they got to see everything, and all of us had the time of our lives. If you were there that day, you know what I mean - we were all there together and you couldn't help but feel the love. I hope we can get to that point again.
 

 

Checked in on the Euclid Grand progress:
 

 

 

 

Understandably Geigers has closed their store indefinitely - hopefully they'll be back. Again, windows can (and have already been) replaced.

 

 

Stopped by an old (new) friend:

 

 

 

And the oldest best friend of the bunch:

 

 

Spectacular restoration of the May Company building:

 

 

Biggest of the old friends:

 

 

❤️

 

And hopefully some new "friends" coming in a couple years.

I was there on Sunday (briefly) and downtown looked beautiful (minus the plywood, of course).  Lumen looked great.

a real momentous thread if you ask me.

 

great pics as always and its just nice to see and hear about a return to normalcy of any kind.

Let me make this absolutely 100% crystal clear AF. If anyone ever hijacks one of my photo threads with off topic trash, they will have a year off. I am completely done with the bullsh!t, folks. 

 

We have threads for just about every current event topic, and we have a private messaging system. It ain’t rocket science - THINK before you post.