June 10, 2021 a thought for the day, The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. Japanese  Proverb

Lowell arranged for a plumber to come out and replace the two outdoor faucets today. The plumbing for them is nearly as old as the house and that’s pretty dated. One of them had a very weak flow and the other, the handle was missing. Now I have brand new and working properly faucets. When the plumber was done, Sue and I left for a UPS store to mail a package Sue has had ready for some time. We took Sweet Pea with us and made a stop at the park so she could add to her memory of scents. 

Yesterday’s photo challenge was “in the shade”. Finding shade was a challenge yesterday. It was overcast most of the day. I remembered some other photos of have taken at the shelter house at the park. So that's where I headed. The sun is noticeable on two planes, the foreground and the deep background leaving the “shade” and its silhouettes in the center. 

Before we had the water turned off, I ran the dish washer and started the laundry. When we got home, I got back to that chore. Also, before I left, I got a couple of informational emails sent to the Hoge emailing list. 

Just shortly after we got back home, I had a call from Jessie and the kids, always picks me up on bad and good days. I can't squeeze and hug them as I would like but seeing their faces and hearing from them about and watching their lives gives me life.

One of the photos for today was “glass”. As I was out and about I looked for ornamental glass in store windows and other types of glass and took some shots. When I got home, I looked around for something suitable. I remembered a couple of ornamental pieces that my grandson, John, had worked on when he was learning how to blow glass but they seem to have disappeared. I found this bottle that I had collected earlier and decided to use it. I have the mantle mirror glass as part of the image along with the bottle and its reflection as well as a portion of the glass cover on the clock. On top of that, I liked the other shapes and the colors and hues captured as a part of the whole. 

We had a little sunshine for a while but the clouds are back.

The word/words today are admire/admiration.  However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux. We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Charlotte Bronte. Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. John Heywood.  Many admire, few know. Hippocrates.  Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ignorance is the mother of admiration. George Chapman. Admiration and familiarity are strangers. George Sand. To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind, Theophile Gautier. Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough, Vincent Van Gogh. All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world, Seneca the Younger. All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing, Horace. The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet, Leonardo da Vinci. 

The second photo shot for today is “M is for....”. On my table of light refreshments there was a bowl of macadamia nuts. That called out to me to be the subject of this challenge. 

Outdoor movies bring back a lot of sentimental memories of both my own childhood and my children’s childhoods. So this article is a teachable moment, maybe they are coming back, outdoor movies I mean. The article started out mentioning how the Wexner Center for the Arts offered online entertainment during the pandemic while the theaters were closed. Wexner made a “festival of short films” available online and had its “premiere” at the South Drive-In when the weather was still cold. They had around one hundred cars and people seemed happy. During the pandemic “thousands of Central Ohioans have discovered or returned to drive-in movie theaters”. In the immediate area there are still “surviving drive-ins - South in Columbus and Skyview in Lancaster”. The manager of the South High drive-in said that though there were visitors to the theater during the pandemic he has a “mixed verdict on the pandemic-era season”. There was a capacity limitation and no new movies. To keep the space occupied he rented the space for live acts. They reopened in March and feel good about the “year ahead”. The owner of Skyview in Lancaster said last year was a good year for the theater. He opened in April this year. From the partnership of Wexner with South it is hoped that they will continue to reach the audiences they wouldn’t have reached with this connection. According to the article there seems to be an appeal toward the” mid-century American society”...the drive-in theater. Further in the article it said the  “We did see a lot of new people coming in that had never been to a drive-in before.”

I am making salmon patties for dinner. 

Joy

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