February 25, 2022 a thought for today, Truth finds foes, where it makes none. Romanian Proverb

Another productive Thursday placed in my journal. Dorothy was waiting for me when I got to the church. She is such a good friend and always ready to help. Together we got the newsletter sealed, labeled, stamped and mailed. Chris came in before I left so we had a chance to chat for a few minutes. 

February 24, photo of the day.... “x is for....” That is one of the hard to find shots, an image of something that begins with “x”. I was at church on the 24th. Our copy machine is a xerox. There’s my photo of the day.

 

On my way home I thought I had better top off the gas tank before the prices went up still further. While I was waiting for the tank to fill Sue called on my cell phone asking if I could pick up her medicine. So I doubled back the way I had come and waited in line to pick up the meds.

The second photo for yesterday was “flowers”. I was in luck.
There is a flower arrangement in one of the meeting rooms at church so since I was there I made a couple of shots of that arrangement too. 

I felt the need to stop at White Castle before I headed to the park in search of one of the shots I need for today’s photos. As I was leaving White Castle I noticed birds congregating on the power and telephone lines above my head so I pulled over to capture some images. Instead of heading for the park I got what I needed and headed on for home. 

I paid a couple of bills and watered the plants. I need to start the irobot and manual sweeper. 

Today’s first photo challenge is “y is for....”. I found a lot of “y”s but the easiest and quickest was “y is for yellow”. After I left church, I stopped at to fill the gas tank. As I was pulling out of the station and across the street at an auto repair shop this yellow display called my name. 

The word today is quiet.  All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal.  The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. Napoleon Bonaparte.  Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. Saint Augustine.  Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson. The good and the wise lead quiet lives. Euripides. Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. Robert Schumann. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Joseph Addison.  Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. ....Saint Ignatius. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. Robert Louis Stevenson.   Silence is a true friend who never betrays, Confucius. 

Also when I was out and about I stopped at White Castle when I pulled out of there I saw all birds landing on the telephone lines and at a rain puddle for water. One of the photo challenges for today is "birds". I had to pull over and get the shots. I was going to go to the park to try to find some geese for the photo theme but since I had this chance fall into my lap I didn’t need the park today.  

Here’s a story about binging another part of history in our city into our modern lives while keeping history intact. There is an empty building that use to be a shoe factory in our town, in the Brewery District. Actually there are some other buildings around the factory that need attention too. There is a plan for some redevelopment at the northwest corner of Front and Whittier. The plan calls for demolishing a warehouse building and replacing it with a new building with parking and several apartments. The foundation and some walls will stay, keeping at least a touch of the history of the buildings existence. There is a six story building on the site that use to be the shoe factory. This historic building would be renovated for housing. There is a single family house on the property that some wanted to keep due to it’s history but it is unsafe and will be demolished. This area of land in question is very near the entrance to the Scioto Audubon Metro Park. The article related that the effort is to “convert this aged property into a distinct and historic community that will enhance the district and serve as an iconic and visually interesting architectural element at the entrance into one of the city’s more significant public spaces.”

Pizza!!

Joy

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