May 25, 2021 a thought got today, Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. Spanish Proverb

I am still grieving for our loss of Sugar. I keep thinking maybe there was more I could have done. But I don’t know how. She seemed so sick and the signs seemed so obvious and scary and uncontrollable. I think I made the right choice. Whatever the answer....we miss her. I even miss her annoying habits. She was part of the family. I am worried now about how Sweet Pea is going to adapt to the loss of her house mate. So far she seems sad but is eating and keeping up with normal habits.  

I have kept myself busy and have gone a long way toward getting things accomplished. I have the  bulletin done. The bible study for Saturday done. I have the newsletter about three quarters done, hope to finish it before noon tomorrow. 

Yesterday’s photo theme was titled “music”. I don’t know where my dulcimer is so I don’t have it to use or the sheet music that is with it. The only thing I could think of, besides my car radio, was one of the several wind chimes I have around the house. The background was of an evergreen tree where these chimes are hanging. Some of the branches were rather sparse so I separated the chimes from the background and used a motion blur filter on the background alone to make a smoother image.   

I started a really cute pair of booties for my new yet to be born great grand son. But I have started it and torn it out three times. I seem to be missing something in the pattern so I spent a little time trying to find a different pattern. I found one that is nice but not as pretty as the ones I was trying to work out. There isn’t much time before the baby will be making his appearance. Hopefully I will be able to get it done.  

The word today is winter.  It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens.  We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton.  Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino.   In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake. God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. Heraclitus.  I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again, Lewis Carroll.  Even in winter it shall be green in my heart, Frederic Chopin. If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome, Anne Bradstreet. Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Every mile is two in winter, George Herbert. Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre on, Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there, John Bunyan. Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast, William Shakespeare.  

Today’s photo challenge is “facial feature”. I have all kinds of facial features in my archives from my
babies, my own children, my grandchildren and great grand children. More from some work friend of my past, from my church family of the past and today and those of my beloved pets through the years. Sweet pea got the prize for today....she is the model, can  you see  the love? 

I think it’s always interesting to learn more of the history of the place we come from. This article talks about Columbus street names and how and why they got their names. From the article there is a statement that caught my attention: “ Sometimes I can find a missing street by looking at early maps of the city”. My thinking is what happened to the street? Did it disappear (for other construction) or was it renamed. And, related to that last attention grabber, when a street number can be located in more than one place on the street.  The article says to explain this oddity we need to realize that Columbus “was not only a city of interesting neighborhoods, many ....were little towns in their own right....that the most of the near west side of downtown was once a frontier village of Franklinton”. Parts of the German sections of Columbus and the Short North were also little villages. These villages numbered the houses and buildings in their own “villages” so the same number may occur more than once. In March of 1887 street renumbering on many of Columbus streets was begun, from that time on “proper numbering would occur”. That was something on the numbering part of street names. The street might be long enough to “pass through several neighborhoods”. Then the name may have changed a few times. In 1872 (note: Columbus was founded in 1812) there was an ordinance generated in an effort to “fix” the problem. The article went on to list several of just such streets whose names were changed, it listed the original name and then “changed to...” For instance “Phelan and Parsons Street to Fourth Street” and “Church to Seventh”, and so on. Even after this monumental change occasionally the street would be renamed again but since the ordinance of 1872 most have remained the same names. Street numbering has remained the same, even numbers to the north and west and odd numbers to the south and east. 

I found some goulash that I had frozen a couple of weeks ago, that will be dinner tonight. 

Joy

My discard for today ...... keeping it company in its solitude.....a lone thrown away and now useless can....the curves, the colors, the peeling paint, the weed, the rough textures on the surface.