April 17, 2021 a thought for today, A spectator sees more than a player in the heat of a game. Chinese Proverb

It’s relatively early in the day and we, Bob and I, have already accomplished a lot. This is the day for Bob’s  second vaccine at the Schottenstein Center. I went with him just in the off chance that there would be any kind of reaction. His appointment was for 8:20. We hadn’t thought about the Spring Game being on this date. I didn’t know how traffic would be since this it is the first time so many folks will be allowed back in the stadium since the beginning of the pandemic. I imagined that loyal supporters and spectators are most likely chomping at the bit to get on with things. So we left at 7:30. Surprisingly, we ran into very little traffic. Once there, we moved through the line easily and quickly. He had his shot along with the fifteen waiting period after the shot before his scheduled “appointment” time.

The photo theme for yesterday was “splash”. I wasn’t planning an outing for Friday but I had to pick up some meds at the Kroger pharmacy for I went by the park on my way home. I use my cell phone camera for most of my photos now and haven’t mastered stopping motion. I wanted to capture the water drops and those that splashed one at a time. So I set the camera for blast shots (shooting as long as my finger was pressed on the “shutter”). The camera set to manual with the shutter speed would have been better with the fast shutter stop and large aperture.

I needed some stylus for my ipad so I asked if Bob would mind stopping (he was the driver today not me) at Walmart. We headed that way. After that stop we cruised by White Castle and picked up our “breakfast”. Next we took a quick detour past my daughter’s former house which was on the way home; there are memories there that need awakened every now and then, a quick drive- by fills that yearning....almost (it can be bittersweet). One more stop. I had the weekly message/hymn lyrics hand out for the Saturday meal at Hoge so we went by the church so I could drop them off. At last, home again, home again. 

Sue has been my in-residence hair dresser for many, many years...she is a beautician by educated trade. But her eyes are being treated now and she prefers not to take a chance with scissors and people’s skulls until the treatments are done. So I had a my first hair cut at a salon in many years the other day. Sue use to do Bob’s hair too but that’s out for a while. Since he is in nearly an emergency need for that attention, I called and made an appointment for him at the same shop I used for next week. I seem to be getting a lot of necessary appointments that have been put on the back burner for some time out of the way in the past few days. 

The photo challenge for today is “ night photography”. I didn’t plan ahead so I didn’t do any photography last night. I had to resort to the archives. This one took me back in the archives quite a ways. When I was working downtown many times I left for work before the sun was up. I parked across the Broad Street bridge at Vet Memorial and walked across to the other side of the river and around the corner to the Federal Court House. The LeVeque-Lincoln Tower was always lit. I called this night photography because the sun wasn’t up so I think of that as still night. 

As I got back to my computer “work” of the day, I watched the funeral service for Prince Philip. I thought it was very moving and beautiful for what appeared to me to be a very gentle and genteel man.

The word for today is time.  Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.  The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Charles Caleb Colton. You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin. Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius. Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus. It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. Francois Rabelais.  Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson. Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine. Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. Sophocles. But time growing old teaches all things. Aeschylus.  Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. William Shakespeare.  Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton.

I often get Arbor Day mixed up with Earth Day. Both have to do with ways to clean and maintain our earth as we are its divinely appointed stewards.  This is the fifty first year of the Earth Day recognitions and celebrations. According to the article several local organizations have already begun activities to point out this now annual event. Some of these activities involve cleaning, planting and caring. Both kids and adults find projects that help with the efforts. One of the events listed in the article was to start a “pollinator garden” in the Glen Echo neighborhood, that will happen on April 24. Compost will be spread and turned, seeds and seedlings planted. This activity  will concentrate on creating a Monarch Waystation (A Monarch Waystation is an intentionally-managed garden that provides food and habitat for the struggling Monarch butterfly population.) At this event there will be free native-plant giveaway.  The Paramount Senior Living center in Westerville is hosting a “Creekside Cleanup” on the same date at nine o’clock. Litter till be picked up around a nearby creek. A group called Outdoor Pursuits (“Columbus Running Company) sponsor an event of picking up litter as they practice their jogging efforts too. There is a Highland Youth Garden that provides learning activities for children, they will be holding a planting period at nine o’clock on April 24.  A group at Pine Quarry Park in Reynoldsburg will be replacing some invasive plants in their area with shrubs native to central Ohio. The Environmental Professionals Network of the Ohio State University will be hosting a virtual program called “Take Flight” at six o’clock on April 21. They will “focus on preserving habitat to protect and restore the monarch butterfly.” There is a recycling opportunity at the Integrated Building System on Michigan Avenue for old and unwanted electronic devices on April 23. There will be activities for kids at Rising Park in Lancaster called “Seeds of Change” at noon on April 24. There will be a dedication of a new arboretum there at the same time. Apparently there is a problem with invasive garlic mustard plants in the Licking Park District. They will host an event to eliminate this problem at the Infirmary Mound Park in Granville at nine in the morning on April 24. Many folks are holding their own personal recycling and planting events for the day and will do the same everyday.  

We will have baked Tilapia for dinner, I think. 

Joy

This is a photo of my “discard” object for today. I am finding that the images of these discards contain at least some of the  other objects of the seven basic elements of photographic art. They are  almost always left, dropped, or thrown into an area where there are other lines, shapes, colors which are part of the seven elements, “line, shape, form, texture, color, size, and depth”. Most have all of the seven elements making them eligible for “fine art photos”.