This is a plastic water pistol I found in the park.   Looked like the lawnmower ran over it. 

What was in the head of the designer...was it molded in China...did a parent buy it for their kid...

Pretty sophisticated color scheme.   

So I laid the broken pieces out on a white matt for this study.

Dear editors of the Plain Dealer:

Thank you for the continuing focus the Plain Dealer has been giving to the
controversial, and potentially very damaging to all of the Great Lakes region,
piece of legislation that passed both the Ohio House and Senate—and especially
for your “11th hour” editorial leading Ohio governor John Kasich, and all readers,
back to his utterance of support for the Great Lakes last year on the campaign trail.

 Innocent Black male children under arrest elsewhere by police for protesting, a scenario that might meet home in Cleveland Hts, Oh. if a curfew law that allows police to arrest Black and other children for protesting on issues of

tremont west development corporation, by-laws need to be changed to  have at least seven of the fifteen board members be minorities and low income - poverty - that are challenged, military veterans, etc., - in the past and present the way the fifteen board members are elected is by a conspirousy to have like minded people be canidates that will think alike for the status qua system that favors money, power, politics, class, race, etc., - while doing some good - but mostly causing "Beware of gentrification with big government programs" -

So much for transparency--did you know that CE FitzGerald quietly disposed of Richard Klaibur at the County Engineer's office and created an even larger Public Works bureaucracy under former ODOT 12 Deputy Director Bonnie Teeuwen? !!

http://topics.cleveland.com/tag/robert%20klaiber/index.html

What is the cost of the infrastructure behind this image?  

Watering lawns.

And then the community needs to haul away the cut grass.

Great Lakes water - used for what purpose?

Scott's Lawn says put on the four step process.

What does common sense say?

Sweltering heat will expand northward this weekend, sending temperatures into the 90s and 100s across much of the Heartland.

A dome of heat will bubble over the nation's midsection through the upcoming weekend and is set to expand north and east next week.

"You feel like your skin is baking," Sally Smith, a Dallas resident, recently told FoxNews.com.

 Here is a report from the Mansfield News Journal  regarding a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision on public records.

The Zanesville Times Recorder points out that the Ohio public records law has recently been weakened by Gov. Kasich and the Ohio Legislature.

Submitted by jerleen1 on November 14, 2009 - 3:51pm.

TWDC sent out another announcement about the ODOT  updates, which are to be held monthly. This one gives very little time since the meeting is TOMORROW. Since they are to be held every month, it looks like it will always be on a Wednesday and at Sokolowski's. Tonight is only an hour, not two hours as it was last time. Text of the message follows.

This is an image of what every culture needs to thrive and survive.  Young people who are happily learning and developing self confidence through the efforts of family and friends and teachers.

Very interesting quilt - I like the sheep and the dog.  

Are all the thread ends tucked back inside?

Thanks for your smile!

Ohio's crackdown on strip joints and barroom smoking has spawned as many

> as two dozen underground nightclubs that operate in houses across

> Cleveland.

> Known as smokehouses, the after-hours hangouts offer what legal clubs

> and bars cannot - places for patrons to smoke while they drink, watch

Recently, I caught a rebroadcast of a PBS documentary entitled: The Judge and the General.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/judgeandthegeneral/film_description.php

Speaking on conditions of anonymity, an ex-DEA agent recently disclosed that the CIA did an aerial spray in California back in the fifties as part of a behavior modification experiment.  The ex-DEA agent, former County Sheriff and one time California  “super-cop” stated that the end  result of the chemical exposure was a breakdown in normal h

The image above shows cephalanthus occidentalis (button bush) at the end of it's flowing period.  Bumble bees are still in attendance.

Most of the seeds have left the center flower, leaving a very neat green ball.

Is there an advantage/disadvantage of this flower geometry over other flower shapes? 

To really understand 20th century American and the
trajectory of the US is still on, you need to understand
the Kennedy assassination.

Until the House Select Committee on Assassinations
concluded that Kennedy was killed by "some sort"
of conspiracy, Lee Harvey Oswald was loudly declared
to be the "lone assassin" in the murder of JFK.

Today was a good day to move the machines out onto the front porch, give  my granddaughter (who just turned 8) a big bag of scrap material and enjoy watching her learning to piece her first strip (crazy) quilt.

When we packed up around 4:30, she looked over and said, "Grandma, didn't we have a great day."

We're starting a "Summer 2011" scrapbook to include all the different things she's learning to do while school's out.  We started this project with giving her some cake icing and letting her decorate a cake. 

Some of the most magical experiences found in NEO are available to all of US for FREE!

Please make time to walk or ride your bike to the nearby Canalway Sunset Series or the Brookside Lawn Chair Concert Series in your Cleveland Metroparks.

For more information see: http://clevelandmetroparks.com

Upcoming events include: