Posted April 23, 200916 yr Getting caught up posting pics from past outings - these are from the beginning of April: Over to Lake View Cemetery - morning sun + Garfield Monument open = Who knew you could see Tremont from here? Or MetroHealth hospital? Or Avon Point? Alright, back inside the monument: Let's take a look around the cemetery: Well dam!!! Enough dead people, time to mosey over to Little Italy - not many people out and about, it was early and considering the amount of Case students in the neighborhood, they were probably all in class: Future site of 27 Coltman townhomes: http://www.27coltman.com/ Alright, enough of that - over to CWRU: I told you everyone was over here! I'm still perplexed - why would anyone bomb the Thinker? Honestly, most El Greco paintings give me the creeps: The descriptor tag said "Unrealized Rendering of a Design for the Cleveland Museum of Art Rotunda" - by Tiffany Studios. Who knew, and how f#cking cool would THAT have been!?! Okay, I can tell you're getting bored with all the art museum stuff... So let's take it up a notch, or eight floors (of the new cancer center at University Hospitals): This will be quite a hopping intersection in the near future (new residential development plus the Museum of Contemporary Art's new location): Compare, contrast: And back down to earth, but let's end it on a high point: clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
April 23, 200916 yr Quite spectacular views from the Garfield Monument. Such brilliant haze-free days have been rare on my visits to Cleveland.
April 23, 200916 yr Great shots! I find cemeteries so strange...if that kind of money were going to be spent on my plot, I'd much rather have it spent on public art during my lifetime that (i) other people could enjoy in a less morbid setting and (ii) I would be alive to enjoy.
April 24, 200916 yr Well, I think I just prayed. Or something. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 24, 200916 yr Great shots! I find cemeteries so strange...if that kind of money were going to be spent on my plot, I'd much rather have it spent on public art during my lifetime that (i) other people could enjoy in a less morbid setting and (ii) I would be alive to enjoy. I don't consider cemeteries morbid at all. In my late teens I did the groundskeeping at a country-church cemetery where many of my dad's ancestors and relatives are interred, and I liked the work. Nobody bothered me, none of the residents complained about the noisy lawnmower ( :wink: ), and in fact during the couple of years that I did that, Memorial Day visitors (the old folks still called it Decoration Day) often complimented me, saying the place looked better than it ever had. It was beautiful, situated by a creek that ran through a marshy woodlot - wicked mosquitos, though - and behind an old brick church that still is in regular use. I think the cemetery dates to around the Civil War, and there are quite a few graves whose stones are weathered beyond reading. Many old urban cemeteries are very beautiful, with big trees and quiet, winding drives. Fort Wayne's Lindenwood is one I enjoy visiting, and while not as grand in scale and scope as Lakeview, Cleveland's Riverside is one of my favorites. It would be good if Americans were to establish a tradition of celebrating these beautiful, peaceful, historic sites as parks to be respectfully enjoyed, and not as something spooky and forbidding. There's a tiny, old, family burial plot on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. Imagine the events that these people must have experienced, and the lives they lived in a remote rural place:
April 24, 200916 yr Great job capturing the interior of the Garfield Monument...it can be quite tricky given the lighting conditions inside.
April 24, 200916 yr Next time I go to Cleveland, I'm definitely checking out University Circle and Little Italy. They look like awesome areas.
April 24, 200916 yr I don't want to be buried. I want to be cremated (and ashes spread over Harvey Nic's) and have a little memorial marker next to the tree I planted, when I was five, in my parents back yard. No mourning, no mausoleum, no fuss, no maintenance, or upkeep, just send me to heaven to be fitted for my wings.
April 24, 200916 yr Nice pics! And considering I've scoured just about every inch of this city (or thought I had) using satellite and birdseye views from live.com and GoogleEarth, I had no idea there was a large dam like that in Lakeview Cemetery! BTW, a think to this thread should be shared with that Seattle woman who's said in the relocation section that's she starting at CWRU. I'll do it! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 25, 200916 yr A lot more construction going on in Cleveland than I would have expected. Nice pictures.
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