July 28, 2021 a thought for today, Fortunes exist among leftovers. Japanese Proverb

This day has been in the nature of a normal Wednesday with not too much on the day’s agenda beyond going to help at food pantry before noon. 

Lets start with yesterday’s photo theme, “fuel”. I actually started out early in the morning thinking about it off and on for a couple of hours. What I could snap for this subject? Perhaps a gasoline can, a stop at the gas pump, food for physical fuel (maybe). Then when I was out and stopped at a light lo and behold the gasoline fuel tanks I pass everyday spoke to me clearly, “yoo-hoo, here I am”. Fortunately the light held long enough for me to get the camera focused. 

The first thing this morning, I worked on getting the bulletin finished and sent to the proofreaders. Then the envelopes printed and a few new coloring pages for the kids at the HM3 free meal on Saturday evening. Hopefully I won’t have any problems with the copier tomorrow so I can get the bulletin done and the coloring pages printed. 

Today the word is color. Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca. The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius.  I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte.  There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. John Calvin.  Modesty is the color of virtue. Diogenes. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. James Russell Lowell.  Colors are the smiles of nature. Leigh Hunt. Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Sing will all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind, Pocahontas.  The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Today’s challenge is “animal”. I see bunches of squirrels but can’t get my camera focused quick enough
usually. This is my all time animal/pet/dog model, Sweet Pea.

Here is a little more history about our community. One of the first sentences of this article said that “The story of Ohio and Columbus is a tale of extraordinary challenge and change”. It was once an “isolated rural frontier” that is now keeping up with automation, “digital information and social change”. Through “diverse” land grants Ohio was formed. In 1803 there were 50,000 settlers along with “a few thousand” disappearing Native American communities. According to the article Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton saw Ohio’s development differently. Jefferson looked at Ohio as his “ideal world” as families were self sufficient on small farms. Hamilton saw “the future of America” in the towns and villages with commercial and financial strengths. The article went on to say Ohio moved more toward Hamilton’s view with the commercial and industrial revolution. It is reported that due to the industrial growth the “nation” came to Ohio for the dirt and rain”. Good soil was up to seven feet deep and there were “mighty rivers” and good rainfall. The farms fed people and some farmers came to the cities as entrepreneurs. Factories grew making plows, wagons and buggies. The Civil War initiated railroad growth. It was easier for farmers to get their products to cities. Coal, iron and timer was more readily available. One of the entrepreneurs started a tannery which helped the buggy companies. A financier named C.D. Firestone joined with the tannery and the Columbus Buggy Co. was formed. That led to hundreds of jobs. Later, in the 1900s,  there were twenty-two buggy companies in Columbus making it the “Buggy Capital of the World”.  The buggy companies tried to “make the transition to cars” but Henry Ford was more successful at that in that time frame. Ohio apparently remains to be useful in its abundance of “dirt and rain”. 

I think we will have fried bologna for dinner with some more left overs. 

Joy

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