February 11, 2022 a thought for today, An escaped lie does not reach the truth. Somali Proverb

My first photo challenge for February 10 was titled “j is for....”. I went with my first thought for the letter j. I was roaming through my archives for ideas that would fit the letter j. I chose this one for janitor. He is a very dear and happy person and loves people. I need to tell him I used his picture.  

It has turned out to be a day out of the house for a little while. Sue had some documents to pick up on the south side of town. It was an area I am not too familiar with so a bit of a stress. I checked a map in a Google search and picked what I thought was the best way to go. As it turned out, we got there and back with no problems at all. She had a couple of other items she wanted to pick up so we made those stops. It is habit for me to stop at a McDonalds when we are out so we did that. The drive through line was so long and I’m not one that waits in line too long patiently. So I left and headed to Wendy’s. 

The second photo title for yesterday was “beginnings”. I mentioned in an earlier blog how one day when Bob was eating a plum he wondered if we could plant the pit and it would grow. This is one of the results. 

Most of the streets and parking areas we encountered on our outing were clear. We had a few small icy and/or black ice spots. The worst of the ice was my driveway. Our driveway is located so that it doesn’t get much sun in most spots due to the structures that surround it and the direction of the sun. Bob got the snow off and attempted each day to chop up ice. I noticed as I went down the street that most driveways on my side of the block were pretty much in the same shape as ours. The driveways across the street seem to be clearer with patches of ice here and there. The afternoon sun hits those better than on ours. 

On February 10 I had a third photo challenge, the title was “frame work”. I liked this one. There are chairs and pieces of chairs as frames of a person waiting for a nice hot meal. 

For a more productive day, I need to water my indoor garden this afternoon and may be able to get a little work done by starting to set up the March newsletter for church. 

The word today is precious. Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Benjamin Franklin. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson.  Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! James Monroe. The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. Homer. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli. A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton. An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving.  If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. John Burroughs.  There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. Napoleon Bonaparte.  

My first photo theme for today is “k is for....”. We have our garage keys hanging on the inside of a cupboard door in the kitchen. As I was searching around for something to make steam with the keys caught my eye so they were the choice for the letter k. 

This could get interesting. There is an old, old building on Broad Street (1945-1947 West Broad Street) that attracts my attention every time I pass it. It looks like it is built into a hill with the main portion at street level and an upper “story” or addition over and behind the roof of the street level part. The article is about that building. It has been empty for several years. It was built one hundred yeas ago. It “greets commuters as they enter the Hilltop from Franklinton” or from the Hilltop toward Franklinton.  According to the article it “could be on its way to becoming a restaurant with a rooftop deck”.  It was purchased in August and is in need of a lot of work. The new owner has been thinking of a plan for a roof top restaurant as well as “hopes to have a social enterprise business either start or expand its operation in the space.....to support youth”. According to the article there hasn’t been any business there for the last half-century. I learned from the article that it (the portion at street level) use to be a sweet shop, then a sandwich shop to a florist and then a drug store. At the rear of the property, looking up the steep hill above the street level portion of the property, is a duplex and carriage house. This is the area of the property that the new owner would like to renovate into apartments. The owner seems to share some of my outlook on architecture... “preserving historical housing...there are stories ..and memories”. She sees the lower part of the property as a “dugout-style building” as I do and mentioned at the beginning, “built into a hill”. As our outlook continued, she expresses about new buildings from the ground up “something new...beautiful, shiny and pretty, but the stories aren’t there...the memories aren’t there”. Some of the owner’s research shows that the building was built in 1900 and interestingly “local residents believe it is older than that”. Whatever it’s age, it is a “lot to tackle” at this point in existence in time.  Columbus Landmarks is working with the owner to make sure the building is structurally sound and to find if it may be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Again I agree with the owner “ What’s here is beautiful and should be preserved as much as possible.”

The second photo for today’s title is “steam”. I’m not good a photographing steam or fog although both intrigue me. As I was looking for the photo prop for “k” I found the pot and lid I ended up using to make my steam photo. It took several tries to get one where the steam showed up to suit me. I used a piece of black poster board as a background to capture the white of the boiled air. 

Pizza! Because of the snow we missed our order in pizza last week ..... we’re back to normal this week. 

Joy

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