Photographs
Highlighting the community we serve.

A photograph of the Cleveland Fire Fighter's Memorial that honors the 76 firefighters who died in the line of duty since the Cleveland Fire Department was formed in 1862.

The Memorial was dedicated Friday, 15 June 2007, at 601 Erieside Street, between the Cleveland Browns Stadium and the Great Lakes Science Center. Read about the dedication in The Plain Dealer.

An arrangement by Pim van den Akker, a floral designer from Delft, Holland. He is a featured speaker at the Cleveland Botanical Garden Flower Show 2007, 24-28 May, the largest outdoor flower show in North America.

Shiva as Brahma, a sculpture acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in March 2007. Shiva, sitting on a double lotus blossom, has four heads and four arms.

Shiva is "one of the three primary aspects of the Divine in Hinduism, known collectively as the Trimurti," according to an entry in Wikipedia. The other aspects of the Divine are Brahma and Vishnu. "In the Trimurti system, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the maintainer or preserver, and Shiva is the destroyer or transformer." Shiva is worshipped across all of India.

Asklepios, taught by Cheiron. One of "four mural paintings representing the mythological origin of medicine" that are found in the staircase of the Alelbert Road entry of the Allen Memorial Library on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. An engraved stone states that the murals "were given my Cliffe Johnson Merriam in memory of her husband Dr. Walter Henry Merriam."

Asklepios (or Asclepius) was born of the world's first caesarean section, performed by Apollo. The child was given to the centaur Cheiron (or Chiron), who raised Asklepios and taught him the art of surgery.

Asklepios' formidable talents in surgery and healing enraged Zeus, who killed him with a thunderbolt. Zeus later atoned for his act by placing Asklepios in the sky as the constellation Ophiuchus, meaning serpent-bearer, a reference to the rod, a symbol of authority, entwined by a serpent, a symbol of fertility or life. The serpent-bearer has since been adopted as the symbol of physicians.