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Does anyone know where the love of God goes......
by Donald F. Jones
This second weekend of November is a beautiful one here in the Great Lakes region. Although we've already had a couple of frosts on the ground and most of the leaves have fallen from the trees, we''ve had a beautiful autumn, with sunny, bright blue skies and temperatures flirting with 65°F / 18°C. The calm waters of the lakes are ( Read more... ) -
Me and those Irish...and then a shock.
Long ago, in an old stone chapel far, far, .....no wait, it stands right over there on the BWU campus, about 5 blocks from where I sit..... a lonely bearded flooring guy married a beautiful young lady. One of that lady’s charms, among many, was her family...a huge Irish-Catholic throng based primarily in the western suburbs of Cleveland. In the ( Read more... ) -
Dreaded Drummer
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This is the time of year I dread, musically speaking. I'm already pretty tired of most Christmas music after all these decades anyway, and it seems like you can't ever get away from it anymore. Starting sometime on the afternoon of Thanksgiving, every music station on the radio dial is popping one in about every 10 minutes...whether it's classic ( Read more... ) -
Father's Day 2013
Today is Father’s Day. I can’t believe this, but Dad died 16 years ago this spring. He wasn’t ready to leave us yet, but 60 years of smoking two packs @ day, while working with products containing asbestos, as well as running into burning, smoky buildings and breathing who-knows-what, outran him to the finish line ( Read more... ) -
Mother Goose
Did a little off-roading on my bike this week. About a 15 minute pedal from home, I visited the site of an old railroad bridge which was abandoned in the early 1920s with the growing popularity of automobiles. On this quiet section of the Rocky River, I discovered a momma Canada goose, and I started taking some photos. At one point, she stood up ( Read more... ) -
Gulls in the sun
I pulled into a small municipal park on my way home to make some phone calls, but it was crowded!....
There were around 100 gulls on these fences at the duck pond, probably enjoying the bright sunshine and unseasonably warm (40F / 4C) afternoon. This park is about a mile and a half from the shore of Lake Erie.
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