"If the whole world moved to their favorite vacation spots, then the whole world would live in Hawaii and Italy and Cleveland."

I'm back in Cleveland! Even though I'm a born and raised lady of the lake, sometimes it's good to take an afternoon to explore familiar haunts, and maybe find something new...

....and discover, that maybe, in this crazy world, we aren't so different after all.

The markets of Cleveland and La Rochelle.....

...the meat vendors of the Westside Market and the Kazakh bazaar...

But this? This belongs exclusively to Cleveland....

I stumbled upon this little fellow at the same time that I was stumbling upon a glass blowing workshop in Ohio City. Here, in the grime and noise of the city, amidst construction and cars, this rooster was owning this alley. Ladies and gentlemen, the new mayor of W. 25th.