April 15, 2021 a thought for today, Ten years of oblivion in school may bring you fame overnight. Chinese Proverb

Thursdays are pretty well set as to my agenda list. It is the day for printing the church data for the weekend. I had misgivings about the bible study that I had prepared earlier this week when I woke up this morning I felt it might feel infringing on peoples feelings about themselves so I got up early and printed a different and more suitable one. The copying at church went quickly. The church was totally quiet so the weekly walk through the stained glass Sanctuary lit only with light through glass was peaceful and reflective.  

The photo theme for yesterday was “clean”. I could have tried to take a selfie while I used Windex on the mirror but I didn’t have enough free hands to do that. I decided the safest and easiest was to show cleaning supplies or a basket of laundry as it came from the dryer. 

On the way home, as usual, I was on the alert for photos. As I mentioned before, my field of possible subjects has widened. Now I can’t leave the house without seeing at least one possible shot.

Once at home I checked for emails and facebook comments then started the laundry and a few odds and ends in the kitchen. The dogs need their meatball treats and I am working on some low glycemic recipes particularly for potatoes and possibly pasta and rice. 

I did get a chance to get a teeny tiny start on the newsletter. It’s not due until next Sunday but I like to have a bit of a start on it ahead of time. 

Now we are experiencing the typical Ohio weather. After some gorgeous days with the temps in the 60s we are back to some breezes that are less than welcoming. The sun is bright at the moment but it is deceiving. I don’t think I would change the Ohio weather most of the time anyway. Experiencing the different gifts of nature is somehow exciting and  awakening. 

One of the photo challenges for today is “money”. I noticed, when I checked to see what my peers were
doing for this image, that many were using hands full of coins from whatever country where they lived. I shot some of the same with my piggy bank tagging along. But ended up with this one that I took while I was waiting at Wendy’s for drive through lunch. 

The word for today is thoughts.  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius.  Great thoughts come from the heart. Luc de Clapiers.  The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte.  Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. Saint Teresa of Avila. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray.  Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. Luc de Clapiers.  In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. Robert Hall.   Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson. All grand thoughts come from the heart. Luc de Clapiers. Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. Euripides. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise Pascal. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for being commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon.

The other photo of the day for today is “umbrella”. I have used this subject before in different degrees of opening so I decided to make this a simple one. It fit the title. 

 I think knowing the history of Columbus brings more enrichment to the roots of those of us raised here. This article is about a man named William Ludlow. There is an alley in Columbus called Ludlow Alley. Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton al have a Ludlow Street in their city. So it would be assumed that they would all have been named that in honor of Mr. William Ludlow’s name and adventures. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The streets in the other cities were named in honor of Col. Israel Ludlow who was a surveyors of the “Seven Ranges” in eastern Ohio and the Ludlow Line in western central Ohio . He laid out the street that carries his name. He never made it to Columbus. His brother, William did. He found himself in a different line of work, that of a political person. In 1804 he and two peers traveled to Cincinnati and began a site for a state college which became Miami University. Later he looked for work and found what he was looking for with the Ohio General Assembly. Another person laid out Columbus which would become the capital of Ohio  and the Statehouse Square and the site for the penitentiary, where the Cultural Arts Center is today. The surveyor and town planner who laid out these original sites wanted to move on. William Ludlow was appointed to be the “director of the Town of Columbus”. Ludlow completed the penitentiary and later the Statehouse with  a spire on the top of the Statehouse that was 105 feet from the ground. There was a railed walkway on the building that allowed a view of the whole town including the Scioto River could be seen. Flights of stairs rose on the right and on the left leading to a gallery and the Senate Chamber. I learned this from the article that the original large wooden columns were painted to imitate a clouded marble finish.  The interior walls were decorated with maps of the state and various articles that were used at ornaments. Ludlow continued this kind of work leading to the structure being for executive and administrative offices. Apparently in time Statehouse Square with a domed Supreme Court building and a single-story state office building were lovingly called “Rat Row”. Later he left Columbus to go on to other adventures but he left behind a street in Columbus with his name. 

We were going to have creamed beef on toast the other evening but when I was preparing to make it I found the sloppy joe from a couple of nights ago and had that so the creamed beef is on for tonight. 

Joy

Here’s another discard. At least there are some other interests in the image to keep it company. A bit of weed, a curved crack in the cement and the texture of concrete.