September 1, 2020 thought for today: In a very old tree you may be certain that the sapwood is on the outside, while the heartwood is in the middle. New Zealander Proverb

It’s been a little slow today. I have had some responses on the uploaded church service to the church facebook page. They have all been positive. It looks like this is going to be a good thing for the church and especially the folks who can’t get to the in-person services.

The end of August, the 31st, the challenge was titled “energy”. As always, I was trying to think of all the ways I could show an image of energy. I had made a quick trip to the store. As I was driving through the parking lot, I was looking for signs of energy. There were gobs of utility poles and the accompanying cables that fit the bill. I remembered a nearby “field” of electric power structures that I drove by and snapped. In the parking lot there was a stand with a solar panel.











Since this was the last day of the month and the end of this months photo a day assignments of August I generated my composite of collection photo theme choices for this month.

I had the memory card that had the files to upload and wanted to take it back to the church today. So when the pastor got there for his office hours, we could upload the files to his computer.

When I left the church, I made a stop at Westgate Park to look for a photo for today.

Once I got home, I put some more minor touches on the bulletin. I will be about to complete it when I get the last bit of information that I need.

The weather is cooler today so I don’t think it will be necessary to water the “gardens” .

The word(s) today is/are magic and majestic. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it, Thomas Carlyle. Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Action has magic, grace and power in it, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic, Laozi.  There is a majestic grandeur in tranquility, Washington Irving. Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life.......,Thomas Carlyle. Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner, George Eliot. From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle, Napoleon Bonaparte. 

I mentioned a photo hunt where I found this planting of elephant ears that I pass almost  daily. It draws my attention and admiration every time I pass. I had to snap the photo quickly because it is located on a fairly heavily traveled road. The theme for today is “this is super duper”. I think this humongous leaves fit that description. A photo friend of mine has been producing some eye catching photos and putting them on facebook recently. I asked her how she was getting such distinctive line and colors. She is using a filter called poster edge, I tried on this shot.

Here is a story that is kind of interesting and maybe a bit educational. I read a few lines before I chose it to share.  The thing that interested me was about a special oven, a Spanish open. The owner of the oven bought two before he had a place for it. He saw it while he was visiting in Span. The oven is called a Josper oven and has a “myriad” of functions. He found a place for them and uses them and their fullest functions in his restaurant called Nomad Hot Kitchen and Cool Spirits. The ovens use charcoal heat and have rotating handle to lower and heighten a grill over the heat. Wood can be used on top of the charcoal to give a smoky flavor. The oven s can reach 1,000 degrees. He cooks the top item on his menu, steak topped with a special compound butter, in this oven. There are also pork chops grilled with peaches , cheddar grits and charred green beans. The tuna steak is cooked in the ovens and served with bourbon-barrel teriyaki and served with chilled sesame noodle salad.  The decor of the restaurant is wood with black accents, black tiles and modern light fixtures.
 
I am making tuna casserole (with homemade noodles) for dinner tonight.

Love you
Grandma