April 16, 2022 a thought for today, It's vain to learn wisdom yet live foolishly. Dutch Proverb

It’s a rainy and dreary Saturday. The last few days it has been sunny and I have heard the sound of lawn mowers beginning the new spring season....not so much today. 

The first photo a day for April 15 was “kitchen”.  I have a nice new kitchen. There are lots of spots I could hone in on for a good image of the space. I shot several and chose this one. 

I made an order at Kroger for a pick up of groceries for today. Since Bob isn’t working today he took me over for the pick up. There are good points to doing the shopping this way. I also miss going through the store too, that way I pick things I forgot to put on my list.  Maybe I will change that habit some after I get transportation back. I may do the “drive by”  pick up mostly with a visit once a month.....we’ll see. 

One of the things I’ll be changing at least until I get a car is my volunteer activity at the church event on Saturday evening, HM3 (free meal night). My presence isn’t one of the more vital ones anyway so I won’t be missed all that much. I may drop my literary club activity too, due to the transportation factor. It’s as though a kind of triage has to take place. It will be affecting my photos of the day too, I won’t be able to get out and about as easily so the photos will be in my yard or in my house or from the archives for a while. I’ll have to be  “creative”.

The second photo of the day for yesterday was “pots and pans”. My photo groups are from two different sections of the globe. It’s coincidental that they end up with similar subjects for the themes especially on the same day. I use to have my pots and pans hanging on a frame from the ceiling. But since we had the kitchen done they are stored in the drawer under the oven. 

I am finding with this event in my life, the auto accident, it’s one of those times that habits take a curve. Things I do on a regular basis and I seem to have “written in stone” are taking a different direction, it may be temporary.... maybe not. These kinds of things happen along life’s way naturally brining experience, knowledge, growth and “spice”. The picking up of groceries instead on personal shopping, the asking for rides here and there, the omitting of some the smaller activities in my life due to no transportation because of no car or no ride. I hate to ask people to pick me up due to time difference in mine and their time-to-spare. What they say is true.....you keep learning no matter your age. One thing is constant in life.....change. One of the problems is as age creeps in these kinds of changes become a little more difficult to face and deal with. 

The first photo for today is “two things”. In one of my recent excursions to the park I found these two guys strolling toward the pond. 

I was sitting at the computer working away yesterday and noticed as I glanced out the window beside me that the trash can by the curb after pick up had blown over. I didn’t think too much about it....figuring that Bob would pick it up when he got home from work. About half hour later I heard a bump and glanced out the window noticing that the trash can was beginning a journey down the street. My neighbor who was mowing her lawn noticed it to. We both started toward it, she quicker than me. As the wind blew around both of us, we managed to get it to my backyard. The wind wasn’t constant and the sun was shining and the temps were perfect. What an assortment of weather experiences at one time. 

I’m going to color some eggs right now...all the children in my life are grown or not near by but I still need to recognize the wonder of Easter with the sight of colored eggs and a tiny little basket....looking at that reminds me of the true reason for the season, after a life ending, a new beginning. The coloring and sight of the eggs in the “basket” on the table along with church tomorrow morning will be my Easter.

The second shot for today is “geese or ducks”. This image is from my archives. It was taken when I was on a drive along the Olentangy River. 

The word for today smile.  The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine. A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt. They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Emily Dickinson. A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. Herman Melville.  Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. George Eliot. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. Thomas Gray. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. Henry Ward Beecher. Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. Victor Hugo. One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul, Therese Of Lisieux.  A smile is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy— these three. It is the light in the window of the face, by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at home and waiting, Henry Ward Beecher. Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson. What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  

This is a story about the history about another part of the Columbus community. I have driven through the area but haven’t had the pleasure of staying very long to catch some of the uniqueness. It is a bit of history of Whitehall.  In the 18th century land in America was granted to Canadian refugees who fought with colonists in the Revolutionary War. Truro Township was formed. In 1947 one hundred and fifty-six acres of that land became a village, then a city in 1965.  Whitehall was “one of the country’s fastest growing cities in the 1950s”. It is “one of Columbus’ last remaining post0war suburbs”. Interesting facts are: a free black man operated a stop on the Underground Railroad in 1842. He had a route delivering supplies and helped ferry freedom seekers along the way.  Later in 1881 he started a moving company, it remained in the family through 2001. That company was the oldest black owned company in the country. An airfield use to be where the Whitehall branch of the library is located. It was named Norton Airfield, after a former OSU football player who died in the war. It was closed in the 1950s. The Defense Supply Center of Columbus was built in 1918 and has served to provide services to the US miliary since the First World War. The Town & Country Shopping Center was planed in 1947 and became one of the first in the nation’s history. With the variety of stores in the shopping center it was the first time Ohioans could buy all in one place. The “National Road”, Route 40 brought people from all around. Motels were built along the highway. People came to stay in the motels and eat in restaurants, go shopping and find some growing spots of entertainment. Kahiki was one of the many and most popular restaurants. In 1982 there was a Playboy Club in the area that lasted for three years. 

It will most likely be hamburgers and chicken noodle soup for dinner tonight. 

Joy

needs a little restorative attention