February 5, 2022 a thought for today, How many will listen to the truth when you tell them? Yiddish Proverb

My first image for February 4, is “d is for.....”. In my case, today and for this image, is for door. It was one of the first handy items I found that start with the letter d. 

There’s not much on my agenda today and I’m not going to venture outside. There are some household chores in need but that doesn’t sound too exciting to me, I may dabble a little later though. 

The second photo of the day for yesterday was “motion”. This was take from my archive in better weather. The twins are having a great time on one of their favorite parts of the park....the swings. 

I finished the latest book I have been reading, The Collectors, by David Baldacci, and uploaded my next, The Innocent by David Baldacci. I have four or five authors that I lean toward and as you can see Baldacci is one of them. The Collectors was a good read. It did end on a bit of a brain-teaser, I think teasing toward another new book. 

Today the first photo challenge is “e is for.....”. I decided to open an egg for my prop and have it do double duty as my breakfast. 

There was no way Bob could have gotten out of the driveway for work yesterday morning. So he called in again. He spent time shoveling the drive way and porches at least down to the ice layer. It seems like that job will take some more again this tomorrow and the next.

 The word is please.  If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. Epictetus. Please all, and you will please none. Aesop. The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  I am not bound to please thee with my answer. William Shakespeare. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. Solon. My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. Virgil. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci. Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. Confucius.  Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. Francis Bacon. He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful. Horace.  

The second theme for today is “rusty”. This is also from my archives. I shot this one when I was on the hunt for my “left behind/forgotten/thrown away” pieces that are overlooked and became part of our landscapes. This grocery cart that was “shoved in the bushes” has seen better days and was developing spots of rust along with the dents and thrown aside container in its basket/seat. These “throw aways” if seen deeply can become art in their own right with the lines, shapes and colors, even though the disrespect for other people and property and neglect are evident

This article is about one of the interesting places to visit in Columbus. I had a pen pal from Switzerland visit me for a week years ago. This is one of the places I took her. As a side note, I use to do paper marbling which is a very this old trade of book binders. One summer my daughter and daughter-in-law went with me to the village to demonstrate the craft to village visitors. We were dressed in costumes in the period of the 1800s.  The Ohio Village is on the same grounds at the Ohio History Connection’s center. It was first opened in 1974. Since that time it has “gone through several different ‘permutations’”.  I didn’t realize until I read this article that it was originally a “home” for craftspeople to show their work and make some sales. Cutbacks through the years forced the artists out. Then a little later the village closed to the public for a few years. It is now back open with guides dressed in period clothing. The clothing helped to give the feel of things may have looked and happened in each of the buildings in the time period of the 1800s. Here’s another thing that I learned from this article, I haven’t visited the village in a long time, you can use your cell phone to for a specific building and will get a message about the building. The article mentioned that the village is now a “living history museum in Columbus, Ohio”. It was constructed with the purpose of providing a view of live in Ohio during the Civil War. Some of the buildings that occupy the village are reproductions of the originals. Some of the reproduced structures are a clothing store, a photographers business, a blacksmiths and several other pertinent businesses of the time period. The village is opened from Memorial Day weekend through the Labor Day weekend. Another event through the year is the annual “All Hallow’s Eve 1860s-style event in late October. There is fortunetelling, costumes representing beliefs and superstitions, a parade, then a show depicting the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Another event during the year is a chance to experience the feel of a Dickens of a Christmas in December, with live carolers, horse drawn carriage rides, a Victorian Santa and a Scrooge, Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas. In the spring there are baseball games with the Ohio Village Muffins and the Lady Diamonds. The players are in uniforms of the 19th century time and rules of the game of that period are followed. In the late summer there is an Ohio Cup Vintage Baseball Festival where teams from other areas of the country come to play. 

I had a third photo for today, this title is “I just love ....”. This is one of my most used models and one of my dearest friends. Her name is Sweet Pea. Those eyes can melt a heart. 

Because of the heavy snow and ice all over our city today we are going to find some pizza’s in our freezer for dinner. I might even make a small one using Pillsbury crescent dough and sharp cheese and don’t have mozzarella or provolone cheese on hand. 

Joy

this photo is another I found on my hunt for throw aways....it’s not quite a throw away, more like a lost and found