March 20, 2021 a thought for today, A rocky vineyard does not need a prayer, but a pick ax. Navajo Proverb

I got the message/hymn hand out enveloped and dropped off. While I was out, I dropped off a script for Sue that she needs to take for her cataract surgery on Monday. 

My photo a day theme for yesterday was “s is for.....”. Once again I gave it some thought and found several things I could have used, sand, seat, swan, etc. I was out and about so I looked for subjects along the way. A huge block of stone stood along side the drive through at McDonald’s back by a big old ever green tree to give the stone some more character. 

I worked on this message for over and hour and once again due to my focus being in three different places at one time I accidently deleted it all. So I took another hour and rebuilt it. It’s a good thing I didn’t have anything big on the agenda. I did get one other thing taken care of today.....I was able to finally get an old and very, very slow lap top back up and running. So now that leaves me a little time to water the thirsty plants before I fix the left overs for dinner. That’s about all I am going to have time for for the rest of the day. That and finishing my two photos of the day. 

One of the photos a day for today is titled “stairs”. I made
several shots, my back deck steps (with Sugar at the bottom hoping I would help her up the steps, she has arthritis (helped her up after the shot)), the steps on the front porch, with a good shadow of the hand railing and finally a part of the stairway to the second level of my house. (You can see a portion of the world glob that the twins use when they are in the explorer mood).

The word for today is soul. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus  The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato  A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero  I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. Catherine the Great   What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison   Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato  Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope   Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine   False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates   All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Alexander Pope   The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo  Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus  Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. Epicurus  There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo  Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman 

The second photo for today is titled "t is for....). You may be able recognize the landscape of this photo. It is of the park I visit on a regular basis for my photo shots, or just a way to relax in "nature" for a few minutes. T is a letter of the alphabet that offers a lot of item names to chose from.  this group of trees presented itself as a model instantly as it does every day. 

I thought this article is a good thing to think about. It is titled:  Eye on the Environment. In particular it is talking about Hilliard’s Earth Day observance. The people handling the event say it will be mostly virtual “but packed with activities”. On April 17 the recycling of Styrofoam, electronics, paper shredding and collections from Habitat for Humanity will start the event at 10:00am to noon. They will be handing out reusable grocery bags filled with “green items” like Bee’s Wrap, rain gauges, reusable water bottles and metal straws to the first 100 vehicles going through th recycling collections. Everyone is encouraged to do at least one clean up in the community through the week. “The Hilliard Recreation and Parks Department, Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and Homestead Metro Park have put together do-it-yourself scavenger hunts that are educational, family friendly and fun for all ages.” You can find further information about these scavenger hunts at gogreenhillieard.com. The article stated that the wrap of the event will take place at 10 to 11:30am on April 24. It wraps up with a virtual rain-barrel workshop. At 11 this will be a virtual session of “For All Species Education. And will show ambassador animals native to Ohio. 

Any of you who have seen my blog before must realize that I am in an online photo a day group. It is a private group (meaning you have to join to view it). There are 29K members from all over the world. Every month there is a theme and every day a different item to shoot within that theme  in the photo a day challenge portion of the site, there are other parts to the site including a blog.  We each shoot the same subject from our little corner of the world and upload it to instagram or facebook. The lady who runs the site is based in Australia. (https://fatmumslim.com.au/ ). I also belong to another photo group. In this group we have four photos a day challenges (5th, 10th, 15th, 20th) (https://groups.io/g/photogroup101 ). I also upload these photos (those taken for the second club) to my Flickr account. (https://www.flickr.com/ then search for rectorjoyce).

We are having left overs for dinner tonight. 

Joy