Saturday, April 23, 2016
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Passing the Quicken Loans Arena;
"All In" for the Cleveland Cavaliers as they start
the playoffs for the NBA Championship |
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A monstrous banner on Tower City
(in case you don't know, #23 LeBron James
is King of basketball in Cleveland) |
The weather map showed no clouds as we headed to the west side of Cleveland to hike in Edgewater Park. However, the weather map did not show the fog sitting over the city! This hike was to see view of the Cleveland skyline...
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Statue of Richard Wagner (1911, by
Herman N Matzen) commissioned by
the Goethe-Schiller Society |
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Dansa (1981) Charles Ginnever;
the sculpture is meant to illustrate the concept of origami |
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| Some big ol' Platanus occidentalis/American sycamore trees |
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Conrad Mizer Memorial Fountain (1909) for
the local founder of public park concerts;
one of the oldest monuments in Cleveland |
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| The beach at Edgewater Park |
We took a detour through the W 76th Street "subway" or tunnel (1914) that allows pedestrians to safely "cross" a highway and a railroad. The railroad paid half the cost when citizens protested the construction of elevated tracks that separated the neighborhoods from Lake Erie.
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In 2013, the portal was updated with Cold Front,
an art installation by Mark Reigelmann II,
meant to evoke the thick glaciers that carved out Lake Erie |
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The tunnel's ramp looks like the plants
will climb and cover the wall |
After touring the
Edgewater Hill area, we returned to Edgewater Park.
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| Bike Box |
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| Parcours exercise station |
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| Edgewater Yacht Club with view of foggy Cleveland |
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| A sidewalk into the lake... |
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| Fishing pier |
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| Wedding photos; too bad it was such a gray day |
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Cleveland MetroParks Murals (2015) by Mac Love;
meant to be a single wall of panels, but each can stand alone |
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| View from the beach of Cold Front |
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Sonchus arvensis/Perennial Sowthistle,
a non-native invasive plant, thus a weed,
which is a plant where it is not wanted |
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| New steps on the dirt trail |
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| Looking back on the skyline; is the fog lifting? |
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| A paraglider |
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| Rough shore on the north end of Edgewater Park |
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| The promised view of the Cleveland skyline |
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| Old Edgewater piers |
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| View from the grassy knoll |
We took another detour through the Cleveland neighborhood of
Edgewater, then headed home through the city.
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| Now the sky is clear for a view of the Cleveland skyline! |
The semicircular building on the right is the Carl B Stokes Federal Court House Building (1997-2002).
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The Stokes Federal Court House is adorned by the
11m/37' bronze Cleveland Venus (2003) by Jim Dine,
one of his variations on the Venus de Milo |
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