August 20, 2022 a thought for today, Man punishes the action, but God the intention. Spanish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was called “I did this good thing....” . I baked a cherry pie. 

We got the curbside grocery pick up done and now it’s put away. The little refrigerator is getting kind of full by this time and that doesn’t include any left overs. We eat what I make or I try to freeze even small amounts to save room in the mini frig. 

Bob got the groceries all unloaded from the car for me and started mowing the lawn.

The second upload for yesterday was something I found as I was going through my archives. I liked the colors, textures and composition. 

On the way home from the store I had Bob join me in looking for a couple of photos I need. We stopped by the park. We also stopped for brunch. McDonalds doesn’t start their lunch menu until eleven o’clock on weekends. We found out today that we can order from Wendy’s before that. 

The first upload for today was titled “I love this view....” . This is one of the landscapes you may recognize if you have visited my site....this is Westgate Park. It is always a nice peaceful view with the trees and green space. 

The only thing left on my agenda for today is making Sweet Pea’s meatball treats and dinner. 

We are having another beautiful, near perfect summer day. This has been an interesting summer with such super hot temp in the end of June and most of July with lower temps, even slightly below normal in August. 

The second upload today was also from my archives. Some of the time I like to get into sepia colored images and/or black and white. This sepia was from an old flower arrangement on my dining room table. 

The word for today is flow.   Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu. In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Saint Teresa of Avila. When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. Paracelsus. Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows, Henry David Thoreau.  Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating, William Hazlitt.   A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy, Thomas Carlyle. On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows, Edward Young. There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy, Hippocrates. When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow, Henry David Thoreau. 

Today is another of those days when I have a third photo a day up load. The title for this challenge was something “antique”. This gate leg table with the painted design is somewhere around one hundred years old. It was in my aunt’s house from the time I was born, actually before that date, until her death and then it came to me. 

This article is a story about some more wild life around our city,... blue herons and more. It seems the blue herons are “making their way to Ohio”. They are about four feet in length and have a six-foot wingspan. They live in rookeries which is a collection of stick nests. In our nearby community they can be found along the Olentangy River south of Hyatts Road. According to the article we have another heron in our midst, a smaller green heron, more a crow size. It is much more “secretive and far less likely to be notice”. There are smaller heron species but seen a little less often. As the article went on it mentioned that there is an “up-and-comer in Ohio”....the great egret. It is nearly the size of the great blue heron and is pure white. They first appeared in around 1940 in the “western Lake Erie marsh region”. Recently there have been some seen as a nesting colony on an island in a quarry in western Franklin County. Their sightings have increased from around 1987 seven fold. There are nearly 2,000 nesting pairs in the state. The article went on to say that “most of the 2022 little blue herons are juveniles, which are easily confused with egrets.... A good spot to see several heron species locally is Pickerington Ponds Metro Park. If you’re lucky, maybe you will even find a little blue heron.”

It’s going to be taco salad for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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