March 21, 2022 thought for today, When the heat has past, you forget about the shade tree. Japanese Proverb

My first photo challenge for yesterday was “something weird” . This probably isn’t too “weird” but at first glance it struck me as odd. Why is the box sitting on the sawed off trunk of a tree? The box says for sale. What’s for sale....the tree trunk....like come and get it?

Our Spectrum TV system still isn’t fixed. It was such a stressful afternoon when they were here last week that I am dreading them coming back to fix it tomorrow. But at the same time I want all of what I am paying for properly working. Apparently the technician who was here last cut one of the cable and left it lying in the yard. They were scheduled for yesterday but they say we cancelled the appointment....we didn’t. Their TV ad says something like  “prompt and reliable”. 

The second photo for yesterday was “simplicity”. This is very simple, a light in a bit of darkness, a cross above the light....The image has been used before for another assignment that it fit. Each image was shot on a different day but at the same angle and time of day. 

I got a start on the bulletin and several small steps on the newsletter. I separated out some photos for what seems to have become our photo page in the newsletter. I haven’t taken many this month so I will be adding some from my church photo archives. This is going to be another busy week. I have to leave on time from food pantry tomorrow to be here in time for Spectrum. I’ll miss food pantry on Wednesday and will be at a literary club meeting instead. Some time in there I have to finish the bulletin and newsletter. 

Yesterday was one of the four days in a month that I need a third photo of the day. This assignment was titled “breaking the rules”. The rules of photography are: Rule of thirds, balancing elements, leading lines, viewpoint, background, symmetry and patterns, depth, framing.  I think I broke several, rule of third, symmetry..., framing? Anyway I like the clouds in the sky and the shading. 

After I got a couple of email messages out requesting the information, I still need for the newsletter I took Sweet Pea out in the car with me looking for today’s photos. I had sent the email out yesterday but I thought reminders might be needed. 

The weather is beautiful today. Early spring is in the air. It’s still a touch on the cool side but sunny and bright.

The first photo for today is “a colourful place”. As I was focused in my drive by searches, I saw several colorful places but this one seemed the most balanced when I got it to the darkroom (Photoshop). 

The word today is run.  If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. William Tecumseh Sherman. There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. Napoleon Bonaparte. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. Abraham Lincoln. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. Josh Billings. All diseases run into one, old age. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Thomas Hobbes.  We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. Blaise Pascal. Time and the hour run through the roughest day. William Shakespeare. The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau.  He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. Horace. Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger. William Cullen Bryant.  

The second photo theme today is “photoshopped”. This is my niece. After I finished using a textured layer to the original photo I used the Photoshop Magic Eraser and finished off with some clean up in areas that the Magic Eraser had left markings that I wanted removed. This is what I got. At first I wasn’t sure I should use it because it may strike some people a macabre appearing as though she was deceased. She is very much alive. She was sitting  at the table beside me, she was heavily concentrating in her work with a doll. I grabbed my phone/camera and made the original image. 

 The article is about some more plans for making places in Columbus visually pleasing. There is a place in Columbus called the Starling Garage that is now under construction at The Peninsula development. Four artists have been selected to create art to accompany this new structure. Eighty-one people applied to work on the project. The are work is planned to “bolster our sense of community connection by celebrating the diversity, open- mindedness and optimism of our city.”  The art will be inspired by the “natural beauty and rich history and cultural diversity of Franklinton and Scioto Mile”. Three of the art piece will be murals along with a sculpture of bird figures called “Gather and Flow”. They will be lit at night with LED lights. The art work will be installed this spring before the opening of a new garage opening in June. There is more Peninsula development with phase one being four buildings and two parking garages.  There will be 328 residential units and a 198-room hotel. Later a 34-story multipurpose tower will be built. It will be residential, retail office and parking. This is all new space for people to “live, work and play” with public art a part “of the unique urban fabric....embodying the energy, inclusion and openness of Columbus.”

I think I will make something with left over meatloaf, some kind of meatloaf pasta. 

Joy

wonder how that got tipped over?