January 28, 2022 a thought for today, The hare was offended with the mountain, but the mountain did not notice. Turkish Proverb

I got to church earlier than I usually do on a newsletter print Friday. It is very cold with a little powder of new snow so I wanted to be there before Dorothy so she didn’t have to sit in the cold waiting for me. I had the first few steps done by the time she got there so with the two of us we finished in just under an hour.

Yesterday’s first photo challenge was “dinner”. I forgot to capture an image the evening before of my dinner so I pulled one from the archives. 

After I left the church, I went by the park to get a photo of nature before heading home. 

My second image for yesterday was “made me smile”. Sweet Pea
is my main model for photos like this. She can’t help but bring a smile to most people. Those eyes are to hard to resist. 

It seems more people in my life are having positive COVID tests. Now one of my son’s has it. He was supposed to be on a trip for his job for about three weeks, that had to be cancelled. Three of my friends from church have also had positive COVID tests. 

I need to take care of a few things that have been on the back burner today and I also need to water the “indoor garden”. About six months ago, I had gotten some plums for Bob. He had asked me if we could grow a plum tree from the pit. I said I would give it a try. From what I learned in a Google search the pits need to be cleaned and wrapped in a damp paper towel, kept in the refrigerator for about six months to begin to sprout. So....I did that. Three days ago I pulled two of the five pits out of one of the wet paper towel “blankets”. I put it in some soil. I noticed last night that there is a sprout beginning to push it’s way up from the soil. That’s when I realize I need to get some water on it along with all the rest of the “garden”. 

My first photo challenge for today is “nature”. For these kinds of shots the park near my house is perfect. Nature in this part of the world at this time of year will most likely be one with snow the main focus. 

The word is peace. Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. Sallust. Peace is liberty in tranquility. Marcus Tullius Cicero. He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Benjamin Franklin. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha. The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Marcus Tullius Cicero. In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus.  Peace if possible, truth at all costs. Martin Luther.  He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon.  An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. George Eliot. Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. Petrarch. 

The second photo theme for today is “knife”. I was looking around the house for a Swiss Army knife but couldn’t find one so I went through some of my craft supplies to find what I needed. I was amazed at the number of different kinds of cutting tools I use for some of the crafts I have practiced through the years. 

Updates on improvements in our community. This one is about some new growth on Fifth Avenue. According to the article this street is a “connector street, shuttling drivers back and forth between I-71 and High Street and Grandview”. It seems like fast moving new developments will lead to Italian Village and Weinland Park neighborhoods will be an added destination soon. The story of this article is looking at a “one-and-a-half stretch” on Fifth between Olentangy and the CSX railroad. Soon there will be over 3,100 new residents with eleven planned new developments, meaning more people for retail businesses and services in the University and Short North areas. There will be four hundred new apartment units, a new senior living building. Added to the proposed new construction is another 315 apartment unit and 275 more at another site on Fifth Avenue. There are other apartments planed also. All of this doesn’t even include the “multitude of single family housing” that will be going on in the Italian Village and Weinland Park neighborhoods. Along with these housing units are retail and restaurant growth going on. This is a lot of growth to be going on in this neighborhood of Columbus. 

Pizza....

Joy

left behind