March 31, 2022 a thought for today, Reputations last longer than lives. Irish Proverb

Here’s another typical Thursday. The usual beginning of virtual visits then saving the information to the flash drive, the visit to the church for the printing and placements and a quick visit with Chris.  

The first photo challenge for March 30 was “a stranger”. While I was out, I looked for the image I needed for this theme. I saw someone on a bicycle that would have been good but I was driving was not in a place to pull over in time to get the capture. So I used this one from my archives. 

Sue and I both had packages to go through the post office so I swung by the house to pick her up. About that same time there was a heavy burst of rain, then the sun came out. I think that will be the case for the rest of the day. After the visit, I stopped by to fill the tank then a quick stop at White Castle. On the way home I collected a few snaps for my photos of the day. Sue has a pretty good eye. So she helped choose some possibles. She is pretty talented with painting and sketching. I have told her more than once that she should be making some sketches fitting some of the photo-a-day assignments. She hasn’t taken me up on the suggestion yet but I wish she would take the plunge. There was one other stop....she wanted to run in the dollar store so I waited in the car while she picked up what she needed. When we pulled in the drive way she discovered she had left her coat at the store....we brought Sweet Pea out to the car for a ride while we went back to rescue the coat. 

The second photo yesterday was “butterfly”. There are three places I had in mind that had a butterfly as part of a design. I wasn’t really pleased with two of them for this project. They were more cartooney than realistic. So I swung by the graffiti mural near my home and picked that butterfly. 

Once finally at home, I started the laundry, cleared out the sink and frig and started the dish washer and paid some bills. Then back to the computer while multi tasking with the laundry and dinner prep. 

The first photo theme for today is “back alleys”. As we were driving home from the errands, I searched for this photo. I have several shots and picked this one. I think as an afterthought I over filtered it but decided to use it anyway. Some of my peers in this photo group have some really awesome shots....the “back alleys” in Europe are much different that those here. 

The word is sense.  Common sense is not so common. Voltaire. Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius.  Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson.  There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Thomas Hobbes. Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Leonardo da Vinci. Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. Martin Luther. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette. Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo. Common sense is the genius of humanity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. Aristophanes. Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Jean de la Bruyere. 

The second photo theme today is “under a tree”. I took a couple of photo while standing under a tree and got the limbs, trunk and sky in the image. Then this one of the porch swing mounted under a shade tree. Some of my peers in this second group also had some beautiful shots using both ways of shooting. 

It’s that time again....time for planning a garden, all types of gardens. This article is another view  on community gardens. This article is about students, church members, businesses and individuals involved in Canal Winchester are gearing up for the community garden experience. The community gardens “first appeared in the city on an empty plot of land behind the former Bolenbaugh’s Hardware store site and was administered by the city”. In 2020 the Canal Wincester Human Services took it over. There are boxes constructed, also an eight grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) bed. Along with these are three “sitting” gardens. There are twenty garden beds that are snatched up quickly by residents or businesses. Use of these gardens came be applied by on the Human Service website. The boxes that are part of the community gardens are four feet by eight feet. It is up to the gardeners what they want to plant. The “CW Human Services provides ......starter plants, seeds, soil and manure, tools and watering cans”. These along with two rain barrels are funded by the Columbus Foundation-Urban Grant and CW Bed Tax”. The boxes are for personal use however gardeners sometimes donate excess produce to food pantries. The STEM garden produce is grown specifically for the food pantry. According to the article several church groups help tend the beds by pulling weeds and work on the beds. Others that help with the gardens are scouts, residents, even Walmart and others maintain a garden to donate food. Again according to the article, last year Home Depot in Canal Winchester installed a pathway down the center of the beds. It is said the beds offer enjoyment and friendship. 

I think it is going to be left overs for dinner tonight. 

Joy

this being the last of the month I have two, one from two of my online photo groups, composites for the month of photos a day.