September 10, 2021 a thought for today, The words of God are not like the oak leaf which dies and falls to the earth, but like the pine tree which stays green forever. Native American Plains Indian

I am back from the dentist. The cleaning is done and the imprints for the bridges have been made.

I have to have another tooth pulled when the bridge is ready. Two more weeks and I will be done with the dentist for a while. 

On September 9, the photo-a-day title was “begins with M”. I saw all kinds of things that begin with M, this one seemed to stand out the most. It also offers a couple of the basics of good and tasteful art. 

Wow, was it chilly when I got up this morning. They are predicting the temps to go up for several days after today so I don’t think I will turn the furnace on just yet. 

I got some light house work done after I got home. Then worked on a church project. I have worked out a process to get some very old photos from one computer to the other. I have my photo shop set up on one of the computers and not on the other. I think I will work on transferring some of the ones I need for two new projects I am starting this afternoon.  

Since the weather is supposed to be warmer tomorrow, I hope to spend a concentrated effort in moving some more of the house plants back inside. 

Today’s photo challenge is “ what I am watching”. As I glanced out my window, I “watched” a couple of my neighbors working in their yards. I saw two or three different folks at different times walking their dogs down the street. I watched a man on a skate board zooming by my house. I saw a couple of different people on bicycles at different time. All of these beside the things I watched off and on on the TV. 

The word for today is excellence.  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius. We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. Henry Ward Beecher. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle. In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks. Apollonius of Tyana. These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life, Aristotle. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character, Aristotle. The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses  is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove, Horace.  The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected, Plato.  Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind, Marcus Tullius Cicero.

This is one of the dates that I had a second photo of the day to find and upload. This one was titled “post card of my hometown”. I have several views of the city in my archives but this seemed to be the closest at hand and the most representative. 

The article for today is talking about how the width of the Scioto River was changed here in Columbus over time. In the early 1900s the land west of High Street sloped and created a slum of sorts. There was a plan in 1908 to widen the mall from the Statehouse westward across the river but it didn’t happen mostly because of a major objection from one particular business. In 1913 there was a huge flood. Then there was some new and ongoing development downtown between 1918 and the mid 1960s. Central High School (now COSI) was the first building built during this “new development”. At about this time the city “walled in the river and widened it to three times its natural width”. It seemed to “behave” better as a flood control although there was a major flood in 1959. In 2013 a dam and surrounding sediment were removed, narrowing the river to 300 feet (91 m) and giving the city access to 33 acres of previously submerged shoreline.  In 2015 art, green space, paths and event venues were completed with the Scioto Mile Project.  According to the article “both old and new walls still flank the river and the grassy banks, and concrete paving was designed to flood without damage in times of high water.”

It’s pizza night....

Joy