Mill Creek Almanac

Musings on life at Mill Creek, a Cleveland neighborhood, by an urban pioneer. I am a 5th-generation Clevelander who took up residence here with Sophie Murad in 1998, the year we married. We dubbed our modest home "CadMur Manor," and set out from the beginning to learn about and practice a sustainable lifestyle, largely through gardening and immersing ourselves in nature. Mill Creek is a community of 220 single-family homes in the Warner-Turney section of Cleveland's South Broadway neighborhood.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Mill Creek Almanac art, by Wordle

Here's how Mill Creek Almanac looks from the vantage of Wordle, a neat program that converts text into art, at http://www.wordle.net. Enter text or a favorite web address and watch what happens. Would be great for wedding vows, favorite song, religious text, etc.

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About the watershed

Mill Creek takes a southerly course through Cleveland's East Side suburbs for its first half, its watershed becoming progressively more urbanized as the creek approaches I-480 and turns north along Broadway Avenue, then takes a sharp turn southward and into the valley to join the lower Cuyahoga River at the border between Cuyahoga Heights and Garfield Heights. From its headwaters in Beachwood and Shaker Heights, with major tributaries joining from Garfield and Maple Heights, to its outflow into the Cuyahoga River, the creek flows through 9 communities. Much of the creek's course weaves under and alongside major roadways and railroad tracks, where it has been largely undervalued as a natural setting, even ignored, except when flooding sends it over its banks.

source: Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization

Mill Creek Almanac

Tuesday, January 27, 2009