April 30, 2022 a thought for today, The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other. Chinese Proverb

Another Saturday has rolled around. Time for a grocery curbside pick up. I placed the order yesterday and one for Sue at the same time for pick up today. Bob and I took off for the pickup in time to make a stop at the vets office to pickup heart worm meds for Sweet Pea. 

The first photo for yesterday was “utensil”. I couldn’t think of a creative way to set up a single utensil. So I just took a snap of a collection of several after I took them out of my dish washer. 

I had to go into the store to pick up a prescription (which wasn’t ready yet even though I had a call from the store saying it was ready). On my way into the store I dropped of a few envelopes of church and family mail at the mail box outside the door. I am learning to combine errands into one trip out since I have to depend on others to get me where I need to go. 

The second photo a day for yesterday was “mirror”. There are several mirrors around the house. This one was close by and handy. I also liked the accompanying textures and lines. 

I have been doing some further research on the idea of using a golf cart to get around in lieu of a car (as mentioned in one of my recent letters/blogs). I am finding that that is probably not a promising solution. For one thing they cost almost as much money as a used car. So I will keep searching for options and solutions to my transportation dilemma. I am finding that it’s true what some say about learning more from negative happenings in life as compared to happy times. In my search about insurances and in looking for transportation I have already gathered (and saved) a wealth of knowledge and experience and it keeps coming. 

The first photo of the day for today is “in my bowl”. I decided to use in my cocktail glass instead since it was full The word today is success. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius.  Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles.  To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. Benjamin Franklin. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin. The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop. Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott. That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have, Thomas Jefferson.  It's never too late to be who you were meant to be, George Eliot.  We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success, Henry David Thoreau.  Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed, Abraham Lincoln.  Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it, Henry David Thoreau.  

The first photo for today is “garden” . This is more like a patio garden in containers. 

Here’s some more history about another neighbor of Columbus. This article tells how New Albany have grown. It grew from what the article titled “little more than a mill town”. In 2020 it was ranked as one of the 50 best US cities to live in. It was “has cultivated a thriving business community over the past few decades largely due to coordinated ....strategic planning”. New Albany was founded in 1837. In the 1960s and ‘70s people from Bexley and Northland began moving into the farming community. The article said that before that the only reason most folks went into Ne Albany was to buy supplies for the farms. The New Albany Mill produced feed for live stock. The beginning of new growth came from Les Wexner and Jack Kessler “created a vision for an upscale community taking root”. Land and new housing with property was a factor in its growth. In 1992 the New Albany Country club became a focal point in the lives of the residents. Soon the New Albany International Business Park was established. Aetna and Discover were the first companies to build at the park. According to the article there are now around 11,000 residents in about 3,738 homes. Over the next “two decades” Abercrombie & Fitch came, American Electric Power, Bath & Body Work, Amazon Web, Facebook and Google move into the business park. The city’s master plan led to the development of the Village Center. Walkability was a major factor. Its chamber of commerce opened in 1997. The article said that it is one of the largest chambers in Ohio and has more than 400 members. The city “made national headlines......in January after it was announced that semiconductor giant Intel is planning a $20 billion production facility in New Albany”. It is said to be the largest “economic-development project in Ohio’s history”. There is also a multinational firm in the midst of making a $365 million investment in the city. 

The second photo for today is "in my bowl".  I decided to use "in my cocktail glass" instead since it was full of cherries and more photographic than any other bowls I have handy right now. 

I think I am making taco salad for dinner. 

Joy

this is the last of the month so I am including my two photo a day composites for April 2022

One of my photo groups that offers a challenge a day is taking the summer off so I will entering for just one until fall.