May 10, 2022 a thought for today, It may be a fire today, but tomorrow it will be only ashes. Arabic Proverb

The photo of the day for May 9th was “a seat”. I think I have some “vintage” chairs/seats. This is one or two I found in our Fall Sale at church. A couple of years ago. 

It’s been relatively quiet around here this morning. The twins were here yesterday. They had to stay out of school for a couple of days so Sue went back to their house last night to stay with them today while their mom works.

I uploaded to my group that has the photo a day on hiatus for now. This one I titled a :natural porch fence".

Since the weather has been so nice the past few days I have moved several of the house plants out for their “vacation” out doors for the warmer months. I have managed to move all but four of the larger containers. I think Bob will help me when he gets home today or tomorrow.

The photo of the day for today is “ where I stood”......my shadow among the shadow of the trees around me. 

Rebecca came over to help with some cleaning early this afternoon, running the sweeper and such. It was a surprise. We are having some of the family over on Saturday for a pizza party. So things needed straightened up. It’s nice to have the help. 

This photo a day is from the group that I belong to that only has a photo a day four times a month. The theme of this one is “architectural details”. These are sculptures, maybe called  gargoyles on the top of the tallest, or once the tallest building in Columbus. 

The word today is treasure.  Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Martin Luther. Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. William Penn.  I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino. Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness, Saint Augustine. Man is more than half of nature's treasure, Hartley Coleridge.  The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee, Akhenaton. Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one, Rumi. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing, Robert Green Ingersoll.  A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love, Honore de Balzac.  The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith, Confucius.  Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man, William Penn.  Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within it! Rumi.  The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure, Laozi.  

This is the photo I uploaded to my group in Canada. I call it ‘early morning fog in the city”. We don’t normally see it this thick at least not by the time I get up in the morning. 

I think I talked about the house that the Sells’ built here in Columbus. Here’s a little more about the circus’ here in Columbus. The story begins with “Lewis Sells was in the auction business in Columbus.” In 1871 he found a couple of partners, the Ephraim brothers and started a traveling circus. It started with one tent and a “few side-show features”. All of this traveled in wagons. In 1872 the invested about thirty-five thousand dollars in to the venture. The first show was in Columbus in April of 1872. They made fifteen hundred and forty dollars. The first name of the circus was “the Sells Brothers' Quadruple Alliance, Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Circus. The name changed a few times. Their earnings were very low and the figured it was because they didn’t have an elephant. In 1873 they bought an elephant but it died in transport form one city to another. They bought another elephant and continued until in 1881 they had eight. They added animals including lions, tigers, hippos, seals on more. Much of their travel was by wagon but the  added custom railroad cars. In 1882 there was a serious train crash in which several people and some horses and other animals were killed. In the early yeas during the winter the circus stayed in Columbus on Main Street between Grand and Washington Avenues. As Columbus grew one thousand aces along the Olentangy River between Fifth and King Avenues, part of the “Hamlet of Marble Cliff” became known as Sellsville. This is were the circus moved to for the winter. In 1882 Allen Sells left the three brothers to run the circus for the next several years. In 1891 the circus moved to Australia for a year. Several of the animals died on the trip over seas. There was a man named Adam Forepaugh who competed with PT Barnum and Ringling Brothers in operating circus shows. After he died James A. Bailey bought Mr. Forepaugh’s show. In 1896 Mr. Bailey “partnered” with the Sells brothers. 

We are having chicken stir fry for dinner tonight. 

Joy