November 20, 2020 word for the day: You may light another's candle at your own without loss. Danish  Proverb

This is turning out to be a ‘busy’ day. It started with a trip to the grocery store. It turned out to be one of those every aisle instead of this one or that one where I knew exactly what I was after and where to find it. My list was quite long for today. But I finally got through it. Sue was with me. She is particular to Zero sodas right now, Kroger didn’t have what she had in mind so I took her to Giant Eagle too. 

I wanted to stop a McDonald but the one we passed on the far end of Broad Street was long a waiting line, so I came in further on West Broad, that one was another wait. So I ended up at the one on Wilson Road, much more accommodating. 

One of the photo themes of November19 was “I went here”. I had several stops today but the one that was most scenic was at the park. I took some shots at several places that I stopped but the one of the park was the best with all the color and blue sky. 

I think I should be concerned about my aging thinking processes. I was so focused on some computer work yesterday that I forgot to do the laundry that I had separated and ready to go. So I am catching up on that house hold chore today. 

I save all my photos and most important data on external hard drives. I have one that has over a thousand photos I would like to use right now. But for some reason the computer is not reading the drive. It is an old one so it may be worn out. I am going to try a couple of other things that I have in mind to get it to work long enough for me to get the photos off. If that can’t happen, I am going to try one of the companies that can retrieve data that seems lost on computer drives. Another task that I want to work on is to increase the resolution of photos taken with my cell phone so I took time to set that up. 

Today’s photo challenge is “beginning with t”. I could have gone to the park with all the trees to choose
from located there but I chose a scene from my front yard. I was glancing out the window as I working on some other stuff and noticed that the sky was interesting behind one of the trees. I stopped what I was doing, grabbed the camera and went outside for the shot.   

The word for today is personal.  Be as you wish to seem, Socrates. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today, Abraham Lincoln. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence, Confucius. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well, Abraham Lincoln. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one, James Anthony Froude. , Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom, Confucius.  Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them, Aristotle.  Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing, Epictetus. If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old, Lord Chesterfield. He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward, Seneca the Younger. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world, Miguel de Cervantes.  Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow, Ralph Waldo Emerson. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday, Abraham Lincoln. Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself, Amos Bronson Alcott. It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. 

The second photo of the day for today was titled “buttons”. I will have to admit I nearly forgot (there’s that word again, forgot)  that this was a day with two photo’s to upload. I used my red winter coat as my model, then added a filter to “spice” it up a bit. 

Here is an article with some news on more updating and growing in the Columbus area. The article is about some rezoning that is being planted for Hilliard. There are 369 acres on the east side of Alton Darby Creek Road and south of Roberts Road that are going to be developed with 1,098 single family residences and apartments. It isn’t expected to be built until 2022. The name of the area in question is “Sugar Farms”. The land was named by the owners who sold the land which was later annexed in 2019. It is located in the Hilliard City School district. One group had issues in the negative for the proposal until it was considered by the Columbus Development Commission which recommended the rezoning in May of 2019. One of the people who objected earlier said that she felt it was “another example of urban sprawl....with the height of the buildings..... that the development might contaminate wells...”. The density of the units per acre is a question being considered and issues about the Big Darby Creek and like environmental issues. Noted in the article on the positive side were a “move-up in the Hilliard school district....bringing much needed housing in a top-rated school district ...was well as roadway improvements.” The project would also “provide a revenue steam to improve infrastructure”. The article stated that twelve intersections are part of the traffic study in the overall consideration. 

Pizza night has rolled around again. 

Joy