August 10, 2022 a thought for today, A day is long, but a lifetime is short. Russian Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “I held this...”. It’s the quickest and easiest thing I could find for today. I have some holding my great grand kids but I got a complaint once earlier because the complainer said didn’t take the photo myself. It was taken be someone else although it could have been taken a with timed shot. 

A few days ago I had a message on the answer machine to call for a medial appointment with a specialist that I had questions about so I made an appointment with my family doctor to see if it was one I really needed to keep. It is actually a follow-up report from a problem a couple of years ago. I met with my family doctor early this morning and she said to keep the other appointment which is next month. There were some other simple tests I needed to take care of today too. 

My second upload for yesterday was from archives. I just felt in the mood for a bit of  nature.

Lowell came by last night and brought us the small refrigerator to use until the one with a problem is fixed. Sue and I had spent yesterday clearing out ours so that it will be completely cleaned and ready for restocking when we get the parts and reschedule an appointment for repairs. 

Have you had an assignment in school to present a specific type of item without adding creative touches to dress it up? That’s what I felt like when I picked this image for  “I wrote this.....” . I don’t write anything by hand any more, I use the typewriter or computer/printer. I do, however, hand write sticky notes to myself s, that kind of thing. So to complete this photo-of-the-day I picked an old recipe card from many years ago. It is not embellished, kind of ho hum but completed the “assignment called ‘I wrote this’. 

The temperatures outside have dropped. It feels like an indication that fall is peeking around the corner though we still have some summer left.

The Sudbury upload for today is this lone dwarf sunflower photo that I shot last summer. I don’t have any sunflowers this year. Somehow they all got destroyed last year. 

The word for today is daily. The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris.  The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo.  The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribably as the tints of morning or  evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched, Henry David Thoreau.  A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn. Charles Spurgeon. I will prepare and some day my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau. A man is what he thinks about all day long. Ralph Waldo Emerson  Each day is the scholar of yesterday. Publilius Syrus. Each day provides its own gifts. Marcus Aurelius. Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. Heraclitus.  A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare.  Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca.  He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Victor Hugo. 

This is one of those days when I had a third upload for the day. This one is titled “curves and/or diagonal lines”. The sheet of trellis material was perfect for the diagonal idea. 

I go by empty and boarded up buildings and have often wondered why they are left empty for extended periods of time. This article may give a bit of a hint. This article is discussing a particular office building at East Broad Street and Grant Avenue that was set to be demolished but the plan was rejected. Apparently some believe that Downtown would be better off with an empty office building than a grass-covered lot. According to the article the owners wanted the building torn down after “determining it could not be renovated”. Some of the terminology went like this: "This building essentially is an obsolete shell presenting a number of challenges.....it fails to capture the site’s potential for greater density in a prominent gateway location at the intersection of Broad Street and Grant Avenue".  One of the earlier proposals for the site was replacing it with a six-story apartment building, that one didn't work out.  The building in question was built in 1950, renovated in 1986 then was empty and became “significantly deteriorated”. Another plan has been to “replace it was a grass -covered lot’ to allow time to plan another building for the site. The Downtown Commission does not like “to approve demolishing buildings without a clear plan to replace them”. They reconsider that idea when the building is considered unsafe. Some feel that it is better to plant the sight of the demolished building with grass rather than leave it vacant or use as a parking lot. 

We are going to meet at Red Lobster for Rebecca’s birthday dinner. 

Joy

I thought I needed to share this poor old fire hydrant that I discovered in one of my daily photo excursions