August 16, 2022 a thought for today, Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie. Russian Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “I once....”. My answer was “played corn hole”. I played it once in person but now play it on the ipad as one of my series of cognitive exercises. I feel that that particular exercise on the ipad offers a small measure of “hand-eye” coordination as well as a kind of discipline. 

So far this has been a productive and quite Tuesday. I had most of the bulletin done yesterday. This morning I got other agenda items tended to before I rechecked my email and found that the information I needed to finish the bulletin was there. I finished that in about half an hour and sent it to be reread and checked. 

The second upload for yesterday was a “pop up challenge....nostalgic or historical image”. This was taken at the Ohio History Center. 

I needed some old photos for another project I have been working on and decided to choose the photos for today’s downloads at the same time. I spent an hour or so on that project then used some Photoshop to enhance the ones for the other project.

The past few mornings have been on the cool side . It is a big change from the super high temps we have been having this summer. It’s a little disconcerting to get a small touch of autumn’s tentacles in the air. Soon it will be time to bring my house plants back inside from their outdoor vacation. 

Yesterday was one of the days I had a third photo club with a photo a day assignment, “water drips/drops”. I like the difference in the feeling of cold with the icicles and the bright blue sky.

The word today is failure. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin.  Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher.  The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. Buddha.   There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne.  The wisest of the wise may err. Aeschylus.  Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any, Plato. We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Amos Bronson Alcott. In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it, Horace. Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant, Horace.  The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth,  Benjamin Disraeli. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game, Henry Ward Beecher.  

My first upload for today’s photo of the day was “I never....”. I have never ridden in a hot air balloon. What a trip that would be.

This story is about the Hilltop area of the city of Columbus where I have lived all of my life except for a couple of years in Bethesda, Maryland. The article started with the note that the Hilltop is one of the largest urban neighborhoods west of Downtown. The land was originally owned by Lucas Sullivant. He “founded” Franklinton and left 1,600 acres, now the Hilltop, to his two sons. The Hilltop was originally called Sullivant’s Hill. In the 1913 flood many people moved from Franklinton to the Hilltop for safety. In the 50s and 60s malls grew up and “influenced” a decline in the growth of the Hilltop. The 2000s brought back some interest in the community. Here is a bit of history of the Hilltop. There was a Civil War camp here, one of the largest “prisoner-of-war camps in the Civil War. At one point there were 9,423 prisoners in the camp. Now there is a small cemetery where part of the camp was located. The Hilltop Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library stands on part of what was the camp. Next, there was the unique display in one of the shopping centers called the “Walk O’ Wonders”, where replicas of the seven wonders of the world were created. People could visit these structures, the Eiffel Tower, Niagara Falls, the Taj Mahal, The Sphinx and the Great Pyramids, the Parthenon, Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns and the Trevi Fountain. It remained an attraction from 1956 until the 1970s when it was demolished. Jesse Owens lived on the Hilltop. He won four gold medals in track and field in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.  A jazz singer named Nancy Wilson also lived in the Hilltop. She won an Emmy in 1975. Another well known Olympic gold medalist grew up on the Hilltop his name is Michael Redd. Another notable item mentioned in the article is “the nation’s largest building — before the Pentagon — was on the Hilltop Built on the Hilltop in 1877". It was the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital. It was built in 1877 and “was the nation's largest building for more than 70 years until 1943, when the Pentagon was built”. It gradually went out of business and fell into disrepair when it was demolished in 1991. 

My other upload for today was to Sudbury. I had played in Photoshop to get this image. I started with an image of one of my daffodils. Then went to the “darkroom” (Photoshop). I separated the flower from the background so that could darken the background. Then copied, sized and pasted two more daffodils (copies) on the same “(Photoshop) canvas”. Then moved them to the position  that satisfied me.

I think we will have chili for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                       “return to vender”