September 16, 2021 a thought for today, If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. Native American Arapaho

It’s always exciting and full of the light of energy when we have the twins here for an overnight. It doesn’t happen as often as it use to so all that energy takes a minute to adjust to when there has been a space between visits. 

Yesterday’s photo theme was “pet”. I took Sweet Pea to the park today.  I tried to get a shot of her and that turned out to be a circus of sorts. I had to keep her leash in my hand and focus and shoot with the other. This is what I got.....not of bad. 

After I finished the printing at church for the week and got home. More adventures began. The girls decided they wanted to visit the park. There are two play ground areas at the park, they don’t agree on which area they want, one wants one area the other one wants the other area. So it is a stop at each place. Then a swing by the pond to see if any youngsters are fishing which is the case on most summer days. There wasn’t today, however. Then we made a stop at the Dollar General so they could “shop” and spend their change. After that it was a “luncheon” at McDonalds where a food fight, small and of sorts, began after they got bored. That was the signal that is was time to gather up and head for home. 

Once at home they started on their separate enterprises and I began mine. I started the laundry which will take the rest of the day along with cooking and my photos for the day. Speaking of which, as I waited in the parking lot while they “shopped” I played around trying to get the shot for the day’s title “begins with E”. I even experimented with taking shots of my own ears and eyes (sheepish grin). 

This is one of the days I had a second photo of the day today. The title was “hat”. I have kept the last hat from the Columbus Fire Department that my father wore.  'Nuf said.

The word for today is falsehood.  Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun, Leonardo da Vinci. Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!  Thomas Carlyle. Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal. Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood, Maria Edgeworth. Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths, Abraham Lincoln.  Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other, Johann Kaspar Lavater.  A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. William Shenstone. Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes. Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Tacitus. It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine. Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. Desiderius Erasmus. Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood. Tryon Edwards. Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Hosea Ballou.  Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect, Jonathan Swift. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it, Samuel Johnson.  

Today’s photo theme is “something that begins with E” as I mentioned in the paragraph above. After I got home, I managed to get one of the twins to “pose” for me. I got this gorgeous image. I didn’t use one of the images that I took earlier of my own eye, that capture wasn’t so good. I had of my ear that wasn’t too bad but this image is much better. 

Those of you who know me know I am an animal lover so I like stories about animals being rescued and/or helped. Also stories of the people who help the human animal. Quid pro quo per species or more help on one side than the other? This article is about a person who tries to help dog get adopted through using her facebook page. The author says she got started by wanting to take a dog at a local shelter for a walk to see if she could do it without getting upset. She fell “completely in love with her”. She said she could not work at shelters where animals not adopted get euthanized. She began her adventure by posting selfies with dogs on Facebook. From that she got a lot of “friend requests”. So she started a separate page called “my dog shelter friends @ the Richland County Dog Shelter.” She felt that showing the dogs more than inside the shelter building would give a more open view of the dog, “a different light”. She has almost 5,000 followers. She takes the dog out of the shelter to McDonalds, or on a bike trail where she can take candid shots. Now s he works for a no kill shelter and doesn’t want to put the shelter in a bad light because the do a great job. The dogs are fed and cared for and get a second chance to a loving family. She even had after hours events to raise money to help the shelter in the care of the animals particularly medical costs.  And the shelter tries to match dogs to their forever families. She says that stopping at the shelter after her day job is a wind-down time. 

I am going to try a recipe I heard about on HGTV’s The Kitchen, Sunny’s Quick Bolognese with Pappardelle (with a couple of modifications).

Joy 

       even puddles hold mystery in their nature....there just a bit of distraction added to this one