April 10, 2022 a thought for today is... Mouth is in gear, brain is in neutral. English Proverb

The first photo for April 9 was titled “in my pantry”. My pantry is not as neat as it should be but it is well stocked. 

It was an unhappy happening. My car and I were hit by a truck backing out of a driveway. My car is old and this damage most likely put it over the hill....but it was still serviceable to this point. I have some low back discomfort from the incident but know from experience things can be worse a few days later. I hated to cancel the meeting, I was so looking forward to be with my grandchildren/great grandchildren from out of town. I sent a message to cancel last night not know if the back problem would progress to an emergency room visit in the morning. As it turns out I went to church and by the time I got home I realized it was best that that was the only outing I planned for the day. My back is more tired right now and I am a little light headed from lack of a full night’s sleep. I didn’t want the kids to see me this way....and I am a bit “testy” right now to.

The second photo for yesterday was “selective color”. This uses a bit of Photoshop to get the affect needed. I selected only the head of the Daffodil, reversed the selection and turned the rest of the image to black and white leaving the flower head it’s original color.   

Now comes the problems with settling with insurance and with 
finding transportation to my various activities. 

The first photo for today is “dessert”. I chose a shot of a strawberry on a layer of whipped cream for my dessert for lunch and the image for this assignment. 

It is one of those days that the sun is showing us what spring is supposed to look like. It is gorgeous outside and there are neighbors working in their yards. 

The second photo challenge for today is “horse”. This one is from my archives. My niece took horse back riding lessons and this is one of the moments I captured at one of my visits. 

The word today is silence. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom, Francis Bacon.  Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli. True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn.  Silence is better than unmeaning words. Pythagoras. When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. Thomas Carlyle.  Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. Henri Frederic Amiel.  As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. Thomas Carlyle. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle. 

I had three shots for todays photo a day challenges. This one is “sidewalk”. The image is self explanatory. It is a neighborhood corner and sidewalk that I pass nearly every day. 

This article mentions some of the ways people in the earliest days in Columbus spent time. In the beginning Columbus was a wilderness. Time was needed to “unwind” as it is today. Some of the ways people unwound in those days are mentioned here. In 1815 there were 700 residents. There were doctors, lawyers and “sellers of goods and services”. The “primary businesses there were inns and taverns.  “The use of distilled liquors was very common, and every tavern had its licensed bar”. A “dram” was offered to guests in the evening and one in the morning. Here’s something I picked up from this article: ‘Tanzy Bitters’ were freely imbibed as a supposed preventive of prevailing fevers”. At a tavern called the “Russell Tavern” people would sit on “sidewalk benches”....the first person to rise would treat the rest. Coffeehouses were also popular. The style of those establishments in that time offered a place for “gossip, refreshment and gaming”. In 1825 there was an establishment called John Young. In 1826 it was called “a bake house and grocery”, eventually called, became known  “far and wide as the Eagle Coffeehouse”. Some times things could “get out of hand”. It had a public bathhouse attached. Here’s another interesting “fact” in the article...”the water for which was pumped by a big, black bear, chained to a treadmill in the backyard”. Someone decided that it would be “....fun...to see what would happen if the bear should break loose....a few minutes later....a ‘scatterment’ followed ”. In April of 1827 “Tippo Sultan, the Great Hunting elephant” gave a performance that was “interesting to the spectator and dangerous to the keeper”. Accompanying this show was a lion, tiger, cat, lynx, Shetland pony, Dandy Jack”and more. This was one of the first times entertainments like this made it at the capital of Ohio. One night the elephant, that was kept in the backyard of the tavern, broke loose and had a good time with the pump on the well, then discovered two barrels of flour. The water and flour mixture made a pasty mess. As time passed musical groups and theatrical companies came to town. 

I think we will have left overs from last night.....potato salad, spam salad sandwiches, and cole slaw. 

Joy

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