Today’s Photo: Medina Farm
I know the name of this blog is Cleveland in HDR but I intend on sharing photos from all around Northeast Ohio (and maybe a few from
my world travels now and then). I was driving down Pearl Rd. towards Medina the other day when I saw this farm. I just had to stop and take a photo.
Today’s Quote:
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein
Today’s Photo: Guitar Mania
Guitar Mania® is a Greater Cleveland community public art project that has raised $2 million for its two benefiting charities – United Way of Greater Cleveland and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s education programs. The project consists of large, 10-ft-tall Fender® Stratocaster® guitars creatively transformed into works of art by local artists and national celebrities. The guitars are displayed on the city streets of Cleveland for residents and visitors to enjoy from the end of May through October, 2012. Corporations, organizations and individuals sponsor the guitars and select from a variety of local artists to paint, sculpt or decorate them. Celebrity artists also paint and decorate guitars.
For more info: http://www.cleveland.com/guitarmania/
Today’s Quote:
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -Edmund Burke
Today’s Photo: Superior Viaduct
From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:
“The Superior Viaduct was proposed for improving transriver commuting in the years following Cleveland’s 1854 annexation of Ohio
City. The Cuyahoga River bridges up to that time had been “low-level,” necessitating being opened for every river craft that needed to pass. City voters in Apr. 1872 approved construction of the new bridge, which was to extend from Superior Ave. and W. 10th St. on the east to Detroit Ave. and W. 25th St. on the west. Plans called for a western approach consisting of Berea sandstone arches built on piles
driven 20′ into the muddy subsoil. A total of 10 arches carried this portion of the viaduct a length of 1,382′, 72′ above the foundations. Connecting the masonry arches to the eastern portion of the bridge was a 332′ pivoting center span. The eastern end of the viaduct was of girder design, 936′ long. With approaches, the viaduct totaled 3,211′, with a 64′ roadway. Construction began in Mar. 1875; the bridge was completed at a cost of $2.17 million and opened to traffic on 28 Dec. 1878.”
“The Superior Viaduct was closed in 1920. Its eastern portion and center span were demolished in 1922, and in 1939 the easternmost 3 arches of the remaining sandstone segment were blasted away to allow for a widening of the river. Seven arches, a total of 600′, remained in place on the west side of the river.”
Today’s Quote:
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.-Albert Einstein
Today’s Photo: A River Runs Through It
From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:
“The Cuyahoga River divides the east and west sides of Cleveland. It originates in springs in the highlands of Geauga County, in the adjoining townships of Hambden and Montville. The 2 sources, forming the East and West branches of the river, are 35 mi. east of Cleveland. The river flows southwest to Cuyahoga Falls, on the northern edge of Akron, where it drops into a large, deep valley and turns sharply north, thus forming the letter U with its 80-mi. course. Upon reaching Cleveland, about 6 mi. from its mouth, it becomes a sharply twisting stream before emptying into Lake Erie. It is believed that the Mohawk Indians meant “crooked river” when they called it “Cayagaga,” although the Senecas called it “Cuyohaga,” or “place of the jawbone.” Originally the old river bed’s last bend took
the mouth westward along the lakeshore to Weddell St. (now W. 54th St.), until the present mouth was dug in 1827 to form Whiskey Island and a more direct channel which leads straight into Lake Erie. The business district of the early city fronted on the river, where
steamers, schooners, and canal boats exchanged imported goods for the products of local industry. In the 1850s and 1860s, shipyards lining the old ship channel on the west side turned out hundreds of vessels of all classifications.”
For more info: http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CR9
Purchase this photo: Brent Durken Print Sales
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Today’s Quote:
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.”- Jeremy Irons
Today’s photo: The Dark Knight
When I was a kid I used to like to go to the art museum for one reason and one reason only, the Armor Court. I liked to see the swords, guns and armor hanging on the walls. It turns out that while I like going to the art museum to look at other things now the Armor Court is still my favorite area. I had to post a photo of my favorite exhibit in the museum. How cool is that?
For more info on the free Cleveland Museum of Art click here:
http://www.clevelandart.org/
Today’s
Quote: But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke
Today’s Photo: Rock in Retrospect
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame reflecting in the waters of Lake Erie. The museum is part of Cleveland’s redeveloped North Coast Harbor. Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed is widely credited with promoting the new name of “rock and roll”, and Cleveland was the location of the first rock and roll concert. For more information on the Rock Hall please visit:
Today’s Quote: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt
Today’s Photo: Trinity Cathedral
This is an amazing church located in downtown Cleveland. When I first walked inside it reminded me a lot of Westminster Abbey in London. It is an absolutely beautiful church and I will have some more photos of it in future blogs. Here is a history of the church from its website: “On November 9, 1816, a group of Episcopalians met in the home of Phineas Shepard on the West side of what now is greater Cleveland, to organize what was to become Trinity Parish. When in 1825 Trinity parish moved to the east bank of the Cuyahoga River, worship services were held in the upper story of the log house on Public Square, which also served as the public courthouse and jail. In 1829, the congregation’s first church building was consecrated by Bishop Philander Chase. It was the first church building within the Cleveland village limits. In 1855 the parish moved into a new, larger stone building of gothic design, which served the congregation’s needs until 1902. At the end of the nineteenth century, Trinity was the strongest parish in the diocese numerically and financially and was also rich in traditions of strong pastoral leadership and in service to the community and the larger church. In 1890, Trinity Church was offered to Bishop William A. Leonard as a cathedral to be maintained by the parish. At the same time, a new building site was sought in a more central but less commercial section of the city. Plans were begun for a building at Euclid Avenue and East 22nd Street, with Charles F. Schweinfurth of Cleveland as the architect. His plan eventually evolved into the present English perpendicular Gothic structure, begun in 1901 and consecrated September 24, 1907. From its early days, the Cathedral has served as an anchor in the Quadrangle neighborhood and in downtown Cleveland. However, near the century’s end, Trinity’s leaders realized that the original cathedral could no longer accommodate its growing congregation’s
needs. In 2000, renovation and expansion work began. The result was Trinity Commons, opened in 2002.”
For more information:
http://trinitycleveland.org/
Quote of the day:
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.- George Washington