June 11, 2022 a thought for today, Him with a clean future has a clean past. African Proverb

The photo for yesterday’s “a month of gratitude” photo. The mounted police patrol paid attention to our neighborhood a while back, couldn’t resist this shot.

This is going to be a great Saturday. It is Benjamin’s fist birthday and Matt’s birthday too. For Matt’s we are wishing a happy birthday long distance, Benjamin’s will be a celebration here in just a couple of hours. 

Bob and I did our curbside pick up that has become a regular happening each week for the past two months. We stopped by White Castle on the way home. 

My upload yesterday to my Canadian group was a bit of fun in “not-quite-the-good-old-summer-time”. 

We got the unloading and putting away done then Bob started on the mowing so he could get it done before the birthday party and before rain predicted for tomorrow. 

Once the groceries were put up I got back to some computer work. I have very bad habit of keeping all my email messages for, not just months, years. I think if I get rid of something that is exactly the time I will find I need it. So my hard drive is complaining. I started deleting files. It looks like it is going to take some time. I multi-task when I am trying to get things done. Which means I don’t dedicate time to just one thing for a specified amount of time just until “I feel the need to stop” for a while. (I like variety). 

My photo of the day for this day in the month of gratitude was of one of my grand babies when they were brand new to this world.

The weather is gorgeous today, a perfect spring day. I love the wind chimes and birds singing, the power washing, mowing and weed whacking sounds......not so much. But still they are one of the sound of the season. 

The word for today is achievement.  Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin.  Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday, Blaise Pascal. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle.  What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality, Plutarch. It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage, Henry Ward Beecher. The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel, Charles Spurgeon. Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  

Todays up load to the Canadian group was for a “pop up challenge” all in black and white. This a tulip showing it’s shades of gray. 

This event holds many memories for me. I participated as an artist two years in a row....paper marbling was my craft/art. It included cards, mounted art work, note paper and more as well as demonstrations of how the marbling takes its form. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun. I also enjoyed visiting the festival on my lunch hour for several years when I worked at the US Court House also along the river, right on of the edge of the festival setup. It was on hiatus during the pandemic so this is a much anticipated rebirth. According to the article “nearly 500,000 people are expected to attend”. Booths are placed on Man Street and Rich Street bridges. There are parking meters available along with city busses, some folks will arrive on bikes. It’s fee to walkabout and enjoy the art and festivities. There are all kinds of food, one being the Schmidt’s truck where I would invariably enjoy their famous cream puffs. It is requested that no pets or food be brought along. The article mentioned that the artists come from thirty-six state and one from Ontario, Canada. There are paintings, drawings, glass works, sculptures, photographs, jewelry, fiber works, mixed-media and much more. Many artists demonstrate their work and craft. There is entertainment with the performance of music, theater, dance, poetry and more. In years past their were food tents, this years they will not there however there are numerous food trucks. There will be antibacterial stations along the way. There will be a Film at the Fest this year at Genoa Park. There is a Children’s Art Gallery. Children can go in the tent to shop alone and volunteers will help them shop. There is art activity for the kids. There is Kayaking and canoeing on the Scioto River from 11 to 4 Saturday and Sunday. Major streets will be closed for the duration of the festival, however Broad Street will remain open. 

It will probably be left overs tonight for dinner. 

Joy

 back in the day.....