May 13, 2021 a thought for today, Today is yesterday's pupil. Spanish Proverb

This day has presented one problem after another. First, I couldn’t get my Publisher file to transfer to the flash drive. I finally managed that. There were several people at the church today while I was printing. So there was some distraction from the usual flow. Next problem, on my way home, I noticed a disturbing sound on the car when I am making a left hand turn; all I can imagine is an expensive service problem. 

To top off these problems I am having another with transferring my files to the new backup external hard drive I purchased yesterday. It seems my “cloud” isn’t connecting properly. So that is a problem where I will be devoting some time and attention.

At least I got the laundry started but even that was a bit of a problem because I got it started late in the day. 

Oh, well tomorrow will be a better day.....hopefully (smile).  

The photo challenge for yesterday was “on the shelf”. I have a floating shelf I have recently installed in the powder room. That became my model for today. Before I made the shot, I placed a little token card that Drew and Lexie sent me for Mothers Day there to be in the photo too. 

The word today is virtue.  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. Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. Baruch Spinoza.   Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Victor Hugo. Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Robert Green Ingersoll.   Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo. I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven. Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. Honore de Balzac. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man, Thomas Carlyle. The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons, Aristotle. To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness, Confucius. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue, Socrates. Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors, Confucius.

Today’s photo theme is “a wall”. As you will notice when you look around there are all kinds of walls in our lives. I wanted to find one that had a not-to-plain character about it. This one actually have at least three “walls” in it, the one wit the arch, the stones at waist level and a peek of a wooden privacy fence. 

I hope the structure in this article can be redesigned to be able to make it useful. I saw a photo of it in todays article. It was rather small but could be restored to its time in history. The Columbus Landmarks is hoping to save a one hundred-year-old service station on North High Street near King Avenue before it is demolished. Some of the ideas for it’s new purpose are a café, a bakery or even a redesigned garage maybe to incorporate its history as well as new technology. There has also been a suggestion to relocate the structure. In considering the relocation idea, the article mentioned some historic structures in Columbus that have been moved: the Union Station Arch, have been moved twice; a handful of homes in the Circles was moved to a courtyard off of West Fifth Avenue when Battelle was expanding. There is a group who wants to redevelop the corner where the building in question is located. So a decision is going to have to be made soon. 

I think we will have baked Tilapia for dinner tonight. 

Joy

I liked the added details with this discarded box under the tire of the parked car, the shapes, a touch of color, lines, and textures.