November 19, 2021 a thought for today, Faults and virtues are but two sides of the same coin. Chinese Proverb

This is one of the days set aside for another of those necessary doctors’ appointments. This one was for me as opposed for one of Sue’s. It was a “well visit” checkup so nothing to worry about. For one reason or another this was a longer wait, good thing I had a new book on my phone. Now I will round out the week with a visit to the dentist for an adjustment to the new partial. 

The photo theme for November 18 was “pattern”. This is a pattern I found in a Chinese restaurant that is closed not and boarded up. I liked the pattern in the lines and intersections and the flowers. There was no color in the design itself because it was etched on the class and the window boarded up with a dark material.  

Speaking of a new download of a library book as in the first paragraph, I have had an interesting week. My granddaughter in law suggested a book to me by an author I really like, Sue Monk Kidd. Jessie asked if I had read “the Secret of Bees”. I hadn’t read it so I tried to upload it, I had to put it on hold until it is available. But I did down load two of her others, one after the other (The invention of Wings and The Mermaid Chair) and after reading a few pages of each found that I had read them both a while back. Then I uploaded The Winner by David Baldacci only to find after a few pages I realized I had read it before too. So now I have found one that I haven’t read, Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. I will be happy in the adventure of this book for a couple of weeks. 

While I was at the doctor’s office, I got a text message from Jessie. Lexie wanted to know if I would some day make a prayer shawl like I had made for Jessie for her, Lexie (my great grand daughter). So I checked on her favorite color and stopped at JoAnn’s to pick up the yarn to start the shawl tonight.

It seems my electric blanket is going to get another healthy work out the fall and winter season. The temperature seems to be taking a dip. 

The word and thoughts for today (and onward) is impulse. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. George Eliot. Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson. Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. Alexander Hamilton.  One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. William Wordsworth. Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. Baltasar Gracian. Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. James Russell Lowell. Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. Caecilius Statius. While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. Terence. What persons are by starts they are by nature, Laurence Sterne.   ... every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason, Jane Austen. Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse,  Alexander Pushkin. 

The challenge for today is “black and white”. Normally I don’t shoot with using the black and white setting. If I want a black and white photo I use Photoshop (or modern “darkroom”) to change a photo shot in color to black and white and then adjust the darkness of the blacks and the lightness of the whites. This one I shot black and white in camera.

Here are some more bits and pieces about downtown Columbus. “Even before Columbus was established as a city, the river front drew in Native Americans and, later, settlers, who were attracted to the agricultural advantages it provided”. In 1830 Columbus had broader transportation on the river going through downtown with the link to the Oho-Erie Canal. Then in 1833 the National Road led to more ways to get to and from Columbus. The next link was the railroad connection. The railroad and the river helped connect Columbus and led us to an “industrial power” and a “key roll in the Civil War”. As time passed the north bank of the river became a point of interest. The North Bank Park was established. It offers a glass pavilion, fountain for children to enjoy, a large patio with a view of the Scioto River and skyline. I learned from the article that the “stone veneer on the park walls are stones from the Ohio State Penitentiary that once stood just north of the park”. As mentioned about “much of the development of Columbus’ was pushed forward by William “Wild Billy”Neil”. He owned stagecoach lines that were as essential to Columbus for a means of transportation as the railroad and river were. Neil Avenue running north of North Bank Park is named for him.  He was also one of the people who played a role in bringing the railroad to Columbus. There use to be a wooden bridge for the railroad near North Bank, it was replaced by a steel bridge that is now visible as part of the skyline. State Route 315 by the park follows the path of the Scioto Trail which was a buffalo trail that the Native Americans used. Other history near the park is the Broad Street Bridge, part of the National Road. Near by it the site of the former and historic Columbus Buggy Company with is now part of the Arena District. The Ohio Penitentiary was situated across from the North Bank Park. It was there for 167 years and was closed in 1974 due to extensive damage from a 1968 riot. Some of the former inmates were General John Hunt Morgan (a Confederate general), the author of The Gift of the Magi, and a portion of was it’s the prison history was the inspiration for TV show The Fugitive. There other monuments and memorial in the park, some of which are: The City of Columbus Firefighters Memorial. The Freedom sculpture, a sculpture of a Native American boy from the Scioto Valley tribe, a memorial designed by children in Columbus honoring the courage of astronauts who perished on the Challenger, a sculpture to honor immigrants, and a sculpture to remember Franklin County workers who died on the job. So this is an interesting part of Columbus to visit. You can also see the National Veterans Memorial and Museum located across the river from the North Bank Park. 

Pizza night!!!

Joy

an “ornament” in the grass