Splashing up such colorful and lusty images has to be therapeutic for the artist.  Right on the edge of an urban dumping ground, full of scrap tires and trash, here's this little fellow sitting comfortably with his leg on the ledge (complete with scrap tire and vines) waving at the buxom gal below.

This giant water lilly pad - about 5 feet across - is in the greenhouses at Kew Gardens in London, England.

Realneo.us is having issues renewing its domain name -

We are working on the problem and will NOT have it resolved on Thursday , Valentine's Day but  very likely FRIDAY. 

The Euclid Corridor Bus design doesn’t make sense to me. 

And break.

Then when it warms up like it did over the past two days, the pipes thaw out.

And water floods everything.  

And when the building is filled up, the water pours out under the doors and into the street - just like it is doing at Sweet Daddy's.

 

Covered on Realneo in the past here, and here, today Dana Paterson is front page on the Cleveland Free Times

Norm, we have a deadline tomorrow, please give me a telephone call to work out details ASAP
Thanks, Jeff

Should concern about global warming make us move to the tropics? 

The Cleveland Institute of Art is hosting the 28th Annual Cuyahoga County Regional Scholastic Art Exhibition through Saturday, February 2, 2008. 

Whether you are visiting the West Side Market in Cleveland, Ohio, or the St. Lawrence Market Place in Toronto, Canada,  what makes your visit memorable and unique are the individual vendors.  

The best possible economic return for wind power - or any alternative power - is achieved by on-site consumption of the power produced. 

Everywhere we go, everyone we meet, we look at faces to form an opinion about the feelings behind everyone’s phrenology.   

This mosaic is one of the finest I have seen - and that includes mosaics I've seen in Italy, Greece, and elsewhere.  Below are the coffer panel details.

After posting this morning, I had more thoughts about the nobility of the suicide-prevention fence.   I knew I should go back and visit it more closely because when I saw the bridge before I was with someone who was driving so I couldn’t stop. 

 A recent response by J. Murray, an energetic contributor to Brewed Fresh Daily - struck me as fatalistic, inhumane, insensitive, and blindly lacking in informed self-interest.   Reading J large, helping our neighbor is to interfere with the inevitable, efficient, scientific cycle of capitalism.   I don’t believe that J’s “Man” is slave to any economic model - provided he  thinks and acts.

Kenny Ward told me about  how he maintains Toronto skating rinks.

On January 10, 2008 Bill MacDermott addressed an audience of about 30 at Webtego in Cleveland, Ohio.  

Bill is a solar convert - and  a franchise distributor of Unisolar products.

At a recent morning function, a “complimentary breakfast” was offered.