May 18, 2022 a thought for today, Youths are like waves of the sea, the elderly have strength instead of tide. Arabic Proverb

We are having a gray and moody day to our spring. It seems to rain a little then stop and leave a chill and a subdued sky. 

My first photo yesterday was the one I sent to my Canadian group. I added a “vintage” like layer to a photo of this beautiful orange posy that was in my small bask yard garden. 

I got the information that I needed to finish the bulletin so that is done and out for inspection before printing tomorrow. 

I got a call from the insurance agent last night but missed the call, it went to voice mail. I tried to call back right away but she must have made the call on her way out of the office. I tried again this morning but got the voice mail again. I’ll try again later today if she  doesn’t return my call.

The photo of the day for yesterday was “a shape”. I liked the shape of the piano keys along with the straight edge in front of the ivory. 

Food pantry yesterday moved along at pretty well. We had the average number of visitors. Today may be a little slower due to the weather. 

Lowell and I may go look at a car after he gets off work. I saw this one on the internet when I started my daily search. This is the first day that it was on the internet. We’ll see what this one has to offer ..... or not. 

My photo of the day for today is “door”. I was drawn to the framing of my neighbor’s door as I see it every day as I glance out the window by my computer key board. 

The word for today is value.   Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle. Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. Rumi. The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. Ralph Waldo Emerson. What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon.  Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants, Epictetus.  

My photo upload to Canada today is this sweet puppy, one I titled “puppy love”. It is one of my granddaughter’s family pets. 

This article is some more the history that gives value to our city. It is about one of the Indian mounds in the Columbus area and how Columbus grew around it. In 1812 when “the Ohio General Assembly chose the place to be the new capital city of Columbus” people were living in what was called “High Banks” an area a the fork of the Scioto river. The fact is that people had been living there for several thousand years....the Native American tribes of Wyandot, Delaware and Shawnee had lived here and left the area. Before that it “had been home to the prehistoric Adena, Hopewell for hundreds of years”. Artifacts of their existence were left behind....burial “enclosures”, ceremonial items, and evidence of defense article. According to the article the came to be known as the Mound Builders. Eventually, as streets were laid out and named in the development of our city,  Mound Street got its name related to some of those mounds. Specifically, as High Street was formed there was a 40-food-high mound smack in the middle of where the street was heading. The street was curved to go around the mound that crossing was called Mound Street. A point of interest is that local people used clay from the mound in some of their buildings.  Eventually it was “in the way”.  In 1888 it was announced that “One of the most pretentious mounds of the county was that which formerly occupied the crowning point of the highland on the eastern side of the Scioto River … on the southeast corner of Mound and High streets in Columbus. Not a trace of this work is left. …” When the first settlers saw it they called it a “wonder”. From what information that was available with much research there was a 40 foot high mound above the natural surface of the “river terrace (bluff)”. The earth was described as  shapely and graceful gradually extending downward all the way around except on the south side where the downward slope was “abrupt”. More information on its shape is it was shaped like a cone; the surface at the top was level and  reported to be one hundred feet or more in diameter. Oak trees, three feet in diameter, grew on the top along with five large locust trees. Its “destruction began in the early 1830s”as city street were formed. “Human bones were unearthed”.  Other things found in the demolition were utensils, trinkets, a large skull, a silver buckle “every trace of them having been lost”. One of the description in the article was that because of the height there was an extensive view of the Scioto Valley. It could have been used as a signal spot offering communication by a “signal light”. All that is left of the impressive mound is clay that was used to make bricks for the statehouse in 1816. Those bricks were saved from the fire of the statehouse in 1852 and used in the new statehouse now at Statehouse Square.  

Dinner is probably going to come from something in the freezer for tonight. 

Joy

PS I did get in touch with the insurance company....they are going to send someone out to look at the wrecked car on my driveway. 

man and nature