July 15, 2022 a thought for today, A hut is a palace to the poor man. Irish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was called “create a postcard”. I have a few photos of the Columbus skyline in my archives that would have been good for this assignment but I wanted a current image so I made a trip (since I have my car now) to the park for this image. 

This Friday is a little different than most for me. I usually like to do things on a lighter side since the week is coming to an end. But today I have an appointment and some errands. My eye doctor’s appointment is mid morning, then there will be a couple of other stops before we get home. After that I will put in our curb side order at the store.

The second image for yesterday is one of part of my rain chain. There are water drops captured in some of the chain’s openings. 

It looks like it is going to be a sunny day and not too too hot. My granddaughter in law is having a garage sale but I don’t know if we will be able to make it at the start also parking maybe a bit of a problem since she lives on a cul-de-sac. 

I’m back.....I stopped after the last paragraph to take care of the appointment/errands.....we were able to stop by my granddaughter’s garage sale for just a minute.  Plus I have a new pair of glasses on order. It looks like there are going to be some pretty major changes in them. The doctor says it may take a few weeks for me to get use to them. 

My first image for today is one of the shadow under my (the city’s) curbside coffee tree. This assignment is titled “where I stood”. I stood in the shade of the tree. 

The word for today is branches.  Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots, Rumi.  There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Henry David Thoreau.  Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves,  Confucius.  Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. Thomas Jefferson.  First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. Martin Luther. I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still, Rumi.  Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life, Marcus Aurelius.

The second upload is of the open shelter house, there is a closed shelter house also, at the local park
down the street. This is today’s upload to my Canadian photo club. 

I was watching Columbus Neighborhoods last night on PBS and heard about something else I never knew about Columbus....the Olentangy Park. It reminded me somewhat of the park at Buckeye Lake. According to the article before we had Coney Island and Kings Island there was one of Ohio’s largest amusement parks in the United States. It was called Olentangy Park, it was a small park and  called the Villa when I began in the 1880s. In 1896 the Columbus Street and Railroad Company took over. When the picnic grounds and an area for gambling were added it was renamed to the Olentangy Park. In 1899 “the Dusenbury brothers” bought the park and now became a “family-friendly amusement park. From there it grew. A theater was added and had 2,000 electric lights added.  Later boating was added, then a Loop0the-Loop ride, bowling, Ferris wheel and more were added. Can you image all of this in an area near what is now downtown. It is said that there were more than 40,000 visitors in one day. It was 100 acres of land in addition to the rides, picnic areas, playgrounds, a zoo, a swimming pool, a Japanese village. As it grew it was located in the areas of the Olentangy River and north High Street, North Street on the south, and nearly to West Tulane Road on the north. So from the 1880s until the 1930s it was a booming place to be and see in the Columbus area. “the Great Depression of the 1930s brought an end to the amusement park. A few years later, Leslie L. LeVeque, of Hotel LeVeque fame, purchased the Olentangy Park site and cleared the site for construction”. The area then became known as the Olentangy Village. According to the article one “iconic rides” from the park still exists, the “grand carousel” at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a remainder. So riding it is a bit or riding a piece of history. The first month at the Zoo people paid $1 for a ride. In 1940 a bowling alley was built on part of the site of the park. The bowling alley was destroyed by fire. The only remaining building is located at the curve on North Street and contains six apartment. An interesting point the steps that led from the “Canoe Club” to the theatre in the old park are partly hidden in the banks of the Olentangy River north of Ackerman Road. 

Pizza. 

Joy

                      left by a black trash barrel in the park