April 19, 2021 a thought for the day, An elder uses old eyes to see and so the young use young eyes. African Proverb

We have the weekly trip out of the way. What a job....I have most of it put away but I needed to stop to get a start on a few other things. 

Yesterday’s photo challenge was titled “graffiti”. That is a fairly easy one to find, it seems. So after church I drove around looking for what I needed. I found several examples. This one seemed to have the best lines, textures and textures.

I have decided that because the ground in both our back and front yard is so uneven that I will be having a hard time walking and standing around watering my flower “gardens” this season so I am ordering soaker hoses with a timer to take care of that necessary job. 

This is the day I generally at least start on the bulletin and this the week I have the newsletter on the to-do list. I barely started the bulletin this morning. It looks like I will be concentrating on those two items tomorrow and finishing on Wednesday. 

I need to finish putting the groceries away and some light clean up in the kitchen. 

The word for today is today.  You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln. Light tomorrow with today! Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Spurgeon.  Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius.  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. Harriet Beecher Stowe. One today is worth two tomorrows. Benjamin Franklin. The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. Washington Irving.  It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. Aesop. No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. Henry Ward Beecher. A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it, Jean de La Fontaine. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life, Laozi. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today, Abraham Lincoln.  The beginning is always today, Mary Shelley.

Today’s photo theme is “crisp”. This one is a little hard for me. I can’t envision something “crisp”.
Clean folded laundry would be one, bacon fried to a crisp is another. But since I had neither on hand I chose the Krispy Kream logo.

It’s spring and time for spring cleaning and of course this is April so time for Earth Day too. This article is about some clean up going on in Grandview along the Scioto Bike Trail. According to the article there were twenty-eight volunteers how gathers fifty bags of litter on April 10. This “pickup event was hosted by” a group called “Sustainable Grandview” They began the pick up near Interstate 670 at the Sunoco gas station because it is next to the exit ramp where people seem to toss out trash as they pass by. Some of the volunteers said that as you bike or jog the trail you may not notice the accumulated toss aways. The litter that was collected was a collection of paper trash , containers and bags from fast food places, cans and bottles, bottle tops and car parts. The car parts that may have been from car accidents and seem to have been pushed into bushes. One of the larger items that was found was an old air conditioner with all copper that had been on it stripped away. The litter that was collected was picked up by “Keep Columbus Beautiful”. The “Sustainable Grandview” group has grown and has organized events like the litter pickups to educate the community and provide other resources. The group had to slow down during the pandemic though it had it’s start before that. As a part of the educational “mission” they held online “webinars” with sessions about food waste, property-assessed clean energy, financing and residential solar panels. Grandview is planning to build a new fire station and municipal complex where the group would like to include a green building standards. The clean up talked about at the beginning of this chapter included the Columbus chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby and the Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed and students from Grandview Heights High School's Environmental Club. The high school group was started in 2019 by one of the science teachers.  The club’s president, one of the students, said that he wanted to do something that related to environmental science and helping community.  The students created posters to encourage other students about recycling items. The hopes are for the high school club to grow and reach more people. 

I think I am making taco salad for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

Here is this “discard” for today. There are some features that could make it a piece of art after all. The colors are bright, the textures of the variety of leaves interesting, the dandelion adds contrast in color and something to soften the ending for the dumped can. There's more to it as there is with any art there is a feeling, a message, a cause for thought.