September 29, 2022 a thought for today, Many people who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. Russian Proverb

The printing is done for another week. I was hoping to be able to chat with Chris but he didn’t come while I was there. I answered a call while I was there. One of the ladies who has been a long time member of the church has had some health problems and is now ready to move into a senior citizens facility. I think she was a little sad about leaving her home so I tried to give her some encouragement. 

On September 28 my first upload was supposed to be “my culture”. That one gave me a bit of a problem trying to decided what to consider "culture”, there could be several ways to consider that. After some thought I felt it fit the definition of culture. This is one of my peer volunteers preparing to serve our community by helping to make free food available to those in need. 

On the way home from the printing at church, I looked for some photo ops. I found a couple that will go into the archives. I made a drive by the park where I can usually pick up some nice images most times but two of the parking lots that I use a lot were full. There must have been something going on at the closed shelter house. 

My archives get a lot of use. I take photos on a daily basis and add them to an extensive set of archives. This one was taken as I was walking in the alley behind my house looking for moments in time to capture and to share. This little guy wanted so much to get a closer look at me. This is my second upload for September 28, 2022. 

When I got home, I spent some time cleaning up the area where the house plants were “vacationing”. I couldn’t get the key to the garage to work so I left them outside the door.  Bob will have to help me move all the odds and ends into the garage when he gets home this evening. 

I also spent some time looking for some winter slacks along with a prop for one of my photos of the day inside draws where I have winter or little used cloths kept.

With all the extra walking today my legs will be screaming this evening and tomorrow. But....hey....it comes with age. The plus side is that I will get the 2000 steps. 

The first upload assignment for today is “not my style”. There is a need to “dress up” on occasions in life but for everyday living sequins and fancy high heel sandals are not my style. 

The word for today is leaves. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson.  Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. Henry David Thoreau. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Thomas Moore. The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them. Saint Francis de Sales. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind, Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. William Allingham. The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth. Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Here’s another from my archives for my second upload today. These are instruments found in the choir room at my church. We make beautiful music sometimes with and sometimes without them.

I don’t remember experiencing a street car but they have interested me along with what I have seen in movies, the cable cars in San Francisco. This article is about the “horse powered street cars” in Columbus in 1863 to 1892. The beginning of the article says that the first line ran from the Columbus Union Depot on North High Street past the State House at Broad and High then to Mound Street and South High Streets. That was a one and half mile trip. Horsecars. as the horse drawn transportation seem to have been called, began to go out of style in 1888 as “electrification” began. In 1892 the horsecar line at Oak Street was changed to electrified streetcars. Columbus population grew from 18,000 to 90,000 during the twenty-nine years of the horsecar travel. During that period walking from the central area of shopping and business on High Street led to the need of travel between suburbs and down town. So streetcar routes were formed. In 1863 there were two streetcar companies that covered several routes for a total of 34.5 miles. The electric cars followed a basic layout that the horsecar lines used. The electric street car system lasted from 1888-1948. This system completely replaced the horsecars in 1892. The benefits of the electric system to the horsecar system was speed, cleanliness, capacity and economy. When the change took place there were two systems supplying the electric cars..The Columbus Consolidated Street Railway Company and the Glenwood & Greenlawn Railroad Company. The second one mentioned ran the West Broad Street and Greenlawn cemetery lines. In 1893 the street car and electric light business came together as the Columbus Railway & Light Company and became the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company in 1937. Streetcars ended in 1948.

I haven’t decided on dinner yet, something simple and quick. 

Joy

                                needs attention

 September 27, 2022 a thought for today, Beware: some liars tell the truth. Arabic Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “moon”. I looked for a moon last night but there was none to be seen so I pulled this one from my growing archives. 

We started the morning early with the cleaning lady. She likes to get an early start just like I do. When she left I still had some time before I needed to get ready for food pantry. So I started bringing in the house plants. I will feel so much better now that they are in and I don’t have to worry about the temps going too low. Most of them are sub-tropical plants, they like warm temps. I have five more to bring in but they are of a larger variety so I am going to need Bob’s help. 

.....We had another busy day at food pantry. This makes the third day we have gone over what, for quite a while, has been an average of about twelve families. Today we had twenty-two. 

The second upload was also from my archives. This one was for the photography club I belong to in Canada. 

It always feels good to be working with friends at the pantry. We usually have some time for getting to know each other a little better and/or keep in touch. 

While we were working in the pantry someone said we had a touch of sleet, getting my plants in today seemed in the nick of time. 

Today’s upload is “open door”. I took all kinds of shots of open doors today. I finally decided this on of my open refrigerator door was the one I liked best. 

The word today is knowledge. Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own, Benjamin Franklin. Example is the best precept, Aesop. Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon. To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. Confucius. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. ......But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon. Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. Lao Tzu. What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of things, Benjamin Franklin. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato. Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato.  Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Leonardo da Vinci.

Today’s second upload, yet another from my archives. This one was taken when I was on a photo excursion during a stroll down the alley behind my house.

I learned something about Big Bear. The title to this article is “Weird Columbus history: The 1930s grocery store that kept a live bear inside of it”. In the 1930s a Big Bear grocery founder “Wayne Brown found a unique way to pack the customers in – by bringing along actual, live bears”. In 1934, during the Great Depression, an Ohio native opened his first grocery in a huge building that was once a skating rink, dance hall and had horse shows. It was located on Lane Avenue near the OSU. Hundreds of people came to see the bear in the Big Bear. The bear was kept in a special cage outside the entrance. According to the article the store’s janitor took care of the bear.  The article also mentioned a legend that if a stock boy made a mistake he had to take the bead down to the Olentangy River and give it a bath. In 1942 the original bead had out grown the cage so it was taken to the Columbus Zoo and a new home. Other bear followed for grand openings and such. These following bears became entertainment walking on a ‘high wire’, and even letting children take a ride on his back. Big Bear had a great following competitors threatened suppliers that they would pull their business if they sold to the Big Bear chain. So the Big Bear found other distributors. Eventually in 1989 Penn Traffic forced a buyout. In 2004 all the Big Bear stores closed for good.  

Left over meat loaf and mashed potatoes are on the menu tonight. 

Joy 

                         renovating

 September 25, 2022 a thought for today, Truth creeps not into corners. German Proverb

So, the first upload for yesterday was “I can smell...”. In this case I could smell the French fries on my way home from McDonalds.

I have mentioned before that I have, at this point in time, four reverends (I honor that title), that I personally consider of the highest standard. One of them gave our service today. The service hit home...again. The thing I can’t seem to understand is how some can hear her message and seem unable to see the education, comprehension and use of scripture this person shares and the deep value in the message.

The second upload for yesterday was from my archives. He wasn’t sure why I bothered to put that easily traversed gate in his way. 

I left early for church so I had a little time to go on a short photo-idea-shopping-trip. I got one for today’s upload and some for future uploads and to be stored in my growing archives. By the time I got to church I was still early so I read my ebook for a while until others came in. 

Now that I am home I don’t plan to do to much...you know, it’s the day for renewal and restoration of spirit. 

The initial upload for today was “laneway”. I pass by the “lane” on my way home, the back way, from Kroger on occasion. 

The word today is kind. Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you, Rumi. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles, Washington Irving.  A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles, William Hazlitt. For it is in giving that we receive . If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness, Lao Tzu.  No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another, Charles Dickens. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve, Joseph Joubert.  Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. Plato. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Saint Augustine. In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Ovid.  

The second upload today, another from my archives was this image of some red bricks and rocks that were tossed aside in preparing a bed for flowers.

Here’s another one of those buildings that I would like to see restored and part of its story. In this article there is a building from the 1830s in Delaware Ohio that is being considered for either demolishment or restoration. In 1935 there was a mill near the Olentangy River. Workers began living in a new two-story boarding house built with stone walls. It is now called the Crist Tavern-Millworkers Boarding House. It is on the “on the List of Ohio’s Most Endangered Historic Sites for 2022 by the nonprofit Preservation Ohio”. As the name indicates, the boarding house eventually also became a tavern. Over the years, as life has it, it has “survived” many changes. The latest change was to become a single family dwelling. It was hoped that once the building was placed on the Ohio’s Most Endangered List there would be interest in seeing the importance of the history in the area. It is one of 13 structures on statewide on this list. “Preservation Ohio lacks the funds to preserve each site”. They have to consider each on it’s own merit or importance to history. The owner is considered and has to give certain rights. Apparently there is something called “demolition by neglect - the slow deterioration of a structure that experiences no maintenance” that is considered in these matters. According to the article from time to time people show interest in buying the building but when they “look into the matter more closely” discover it has considerable liability, one being lack of public sanitary sewer service. The walls of the tavern on the property have been covered by Virginia creeper and the roof is beginning to show damage. In closing, it hasn’t be possible to contact anyone associated with the ownership of the property. So the fate of the tavern can’t be predicted at this point in time. 

Maybe an order-in from York Steak House will be dinner.

Joy

                                The message....destructed (self or otherwise)

 September 23, 2022 a thought for today, A half-truth is a whole lie. Jewish  Proverb

We open today with my first upload for yesterday “tree trunk”. This one has seen some bad days....some good to .... it’s still showing us life with it's green canopy in the spring and summer. 

It has been another eventful Friday. I met Dorothy at church early so that we could get the newsletter done. We work well together so we had it done in less than an hour.

Sue had a couple of errands on her list of to-dos so I picked her up on my way home from church. And we took Sweet Pea for a walk in the park. When we got home, it was back to getting some house work chores done and, of course, the computer. 

My second upload for yesterday was a selection from the archives (stored memories in photos). This one was taken at Christmas time when the twins came to visit. 

I have been slowly making things ready for bringing the house plants back inside. I wanted to wait another week. The temperature went into the 40s last night so I was concerned about them and thought I should get as many in today as I could. The weather announcers are saying the temps won’t go that low tonight so I may try to wait another few days. However I did get all of the drainage trays washed and ready and the plant lights set up. Or, since I may need Bob’s help with two of the larger ones and since he doesn’t work on Saturday we may do it tomorrow. 

One of the uploads for today is “crunchy”. I collected a few “crunchies” in the kitchen right now for my model for this photo. 

Due to the weather, I did have to break down and turn the furnace on last night. The change of seasons in Ohio adds such spice to life. 

The word today is joy. Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter, Benjamin Franklin . Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow, Rumi. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things, Henry Ward Beecher. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy, Rumi. An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun; or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden, Plato.  Bless us all With playful years With noisy games and joyful tears, Charles Dickens. The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. Rumi.

I’ll have to admit was a little lazy selecting a photo for this upload today. It is a photo I took a while ago because of the shadow and the contrast in color of the pole and that cast by the shadow. 

I have a cousin and also a photo friend who are raising chickens in their city backyards. I think it is an interesting plan, bees....I’m not so sure. This article gives a hint on what these two adventures may present.  On September 12 the Hilliard City Council amended a city code to allow hens and bees to be kept on home owners properties of “at least one-half acre in size”. The owner can keep up to six hens. Owners of up to one acre and three acres can keep hens, roosters and ducks. Owners can have Honeybee hives “limited to three on parcels of at least one-half acres”. To check on the amount of animals allowed check with the Hilliard City Council. These new considerations will be reviewed in twelve months. Commercial use is prohibited, these plans are for private use. Certain considerations have to be put to use such as property lines, sheltering, sanitation, etc. While it prohibits commercial use of the by-products, giving and selling eggs and honey to family and friends would be understandable. According to the article “Neighboring communities have allowed this” with no major issues”.

Pizza!

         Aged.... it happens.....sad? or is it just time

 September 21, 2022 a thought for today, Our outward actions reveal our hidden intentions. Latin Proverb

My fist upload for yesterday was “texture”. Yesterday was a busy day and there is texture literally everywhere. So as I was coming in the house I noticed these pebbles, bricks and grass...what a collections of textures. 

I am taking a sigh of relief. I got the newsletter done today (oh, there is one part I will have to insert as soon as I get it, it shouldn’t take to much time). I was concerned because I didn’t start it ahead of time as I usually do. The bulletin was done yesterday. Now I can go to food pantry with a little more breathing room. 

.....I’m back from food pantry. We have had two very busy days. Normally we have twelve to 15 families each day. Yesterday we had thirty. Today we had twenty-two. Both days kept us moving. Really, that is better than having fewer come in leaving more “down” time.

The second upload yesterday was one I pulled from the archives. This was taken on one of my many journeys through the neighborhood. Just a comfortable rocker on a welcoming front porch. 

The information I need to finish the newsletter still hasn’t come in. That will make time a premium tomorrow morning. Since I have to get done printing the bulletin and the newsletter before I need to take Sue to her dental appointment. 

 

I had a third upload yesterday called “branches”. I got this one from the archives.

The word today is horizon.  The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Ralph Waldo Emerson  When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. Thomas Paine. Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. Lord Byron. Your greatness is measured by your horizons, Michelangelo.  Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded. Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas, this is the very struggle of progress, Victor Hugo.  To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. James Russell Lowell. The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night, Victor Hugo. A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it, William Greenough Thayer Shedd.  There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows, Henry David Thoreau. 

The first upload for today is “ nature”. I caught two of natures gifts in this one....a bright blue sky and leaves/branches on an overhanging tree. 

When I come across an article about the connections of animals with and to human beings I sit up and take notice. This article is about lizards and one of their ways to teach us a bit of something about climate change. Lets take a look.....When plants and animals somehow meet a new environment they most often are “at a disadvantage”. The article mentioned that some “common wall lizards from Italy were released in Cincinnati nearly 70 years ago”. Amazingly the adapted and thrived. Some researchers at Ohio Wesleyan University are hoping to study the situation to see how they did. They feel there will be lessons on carbon emissions raising temperatures and threaten survival of all animals on earth. One of the professor’s of biological sciences was given a grant for the research for at least three year. He and some students are studying how the lizard’s body adapted to the switch in climates “and geography”. The article mentioned a fact that “we learn more and more about the way humans are impacting global environments, we hear more stories of the failure of organisms that can't cope because of habitats that changed." On the other hand some organisms do well. The Ohio Wesleyan group wants to “provide hope to other creatures endangered by a warming world”. They have already made some key observations. They found that the lizard’s body size and shape has changed. The overall body hasn’t so much changed but there are changes in limb dimensions, some aspects smaller, some longer. Some heads are getting smaller and pelvic area getting larger with shoulder portions getting smaller. Some in the study want to know if the changes affect performance form the region in Italy to the areas in Cincinnati. An interesting point in the article can the run faster or climb better in the city. So if an animal species is moved from familiar to unfamiliar what are the odds of survival. A question is is the place where they would land be something they are suited to. A lot of scientific study can result in answers and affects never even considered when the study began. So the study of these lizards may hold secrets that will affect human survival too.  

My second upload for today was drawn from the archives. My time was a little limited this week so I used a couple of photos from my large collection. 

I am in the mood for chili tonight for dinner. 

Joy

    Beware......rubble

 September 19, 2022 a thought for today, Our fears always outnumber our dangers. Latin Proverb

The day has arrived for the technician/repair person to finally fix the ice maker on the GE refrigerator. He got here near eight o’clock. To make a long story short, he had to order a new ice maker. At the time I made the appointment, I had asked them to put one on the truck....as it turned out they couldn’t do that for various reasons. So now we wait....again. 

The first photo a day upload for yesterday was “car park”. I figured this could mean a used car lot so that is what I was going for. 

I couldn’t go to sleep for a while last night so I made a list in my head of the many things I need to get done today or within the next few days. There must have been fourteen items. So far I have accomplished maybe four.....only ten to go.

This in my current year, in my later years, changes my “Christmas shopping” methods. I make small gifts rather than guessing what someone would like and using the leg/mouse click work to shop. That has been added to my list of daily things to get done now and for the next few months. 

My second upload for yesterday was an image that literally grabbed my eye as I came out of the post office. 

Today is the day that Queen Elizabeth is being buried. Aside from having it on the TV all morning long, I have to mention something. One the photo a day clubs I belong to makes a list at the beginning of the month of a different photo title each day. So I have had this list since the first of the month. Today’s photo is “what’s on the TV”. That makes this an easy one. 

As mentioned above, the photo  “assignment” for today is  “what’s on TV” . Most stations on the TV today covered the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. I feel as many other she was a graceful and dignified lady. She will be sorely missed. There may never be another like her. 

The word is hopeful.  The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. George Eliot. Hope is patience with the lamp lit, Tertullian. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers, Robert Green Ingersoll. Hope is the best possession, William Hazlitt. If it were not for hopes, the heart would break, Thomas Fuller. Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope! Victor Hugo. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus. It is history that teaches us to hope, Robert E. Lee. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Emily Dickinson. We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. Francois de La Rochefoucauld .The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. Plautus.  As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever, Laozi.

I captured this, my second upload for today, as I was passing by the stairs. I couldn’t resist. The thing that caught my eye, besides those gorgeous eyes, was the placement of her paws.   

I have a long personal history with this hospital on several fronts. I also appreciate learning about things that make up this city and its history. First of all it all started, I wanted to be a nurse from the time I was a child. My father was an Emergency Squads man and was in and out of that emergency room on a near daily basis. He arranged for me to shadow the head emergency room nurse, Mary, when I was a teen ager. That was the beginning of my long and varied relationship with Mt. Carmel. I may have mentioned this subject before but a human nature has its picture or words that come up in life to re-kindle memories and may cause us to share them. That hospital is called Mt. Carmel. It was the “primary care hospital in Franklinton in 1886. It opened and was the run by the Sister’s of the Holy Cross. It could be found between the Ohio State Route 16 and Route 62. The Mount Carmel College of Nursing was located on the hospital grounds. The US News & World Report ranked Mt. Carmel one of the “18 best performing among hospitals in Ohio and high performing in four specialities and procedures”. In 2016 there was a plan that transformed it into an outpatient facility. At that time the emergency department and an outpatient facility was moved to a new location on the property. A new inpatient serve facility was built in Grove City. The majority of the “old” Mt. Carmel was demolished. The “old” Mt. Carmel, Mt. Carmel West as it was know, was first known as Hawkes Hospital founded by Dr.  WB Hawkes. He died before the building was complete it was sold and the Sister’s of the Holy Cross took over the management. I learned from the article that it was first meant to “serve the needs of infants and women”. I also learned from the article that a second building “adjoining the old one containing a chapel and 120 additional patient rooms was started”.  The School for Nurses, where I many years later attended nurses training, opened in 1903. In 1921 an additional 120 patient rooms were added and 20 rooms with recreation halls, classrooms and a library. The Mount Carmel College of Nursing was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1903 and became one of the largest “baccalaureate nursing programs in the state of Ohio”. The school of nursing is still located on the “old” Mt. Carmel property. Freshmen and Sophomores live on campuses with “both  coed dorms and single student apartments. Today, it is a private, coeducational and Catholic church affiliated institution with around 1100 full-time students”.

I am making Chicketti and corn on the cob for dinner.

Joy

 September 17, 2022 a thought for today, Nothing can exist long without occasional rest. Latin Proverb

The first photo a day photo upload for yesterday was “12:34". Other members of my club had a variety of interesting ideas on how to display this set of numbers. 

It has been a moderately busy day, the kind I like, keeping physically and physiologically busy at the same time. 

We did the weekly curbside grocery pick up and the also weekly chores. On weekends like this we are enjoying the feeling of the advancing fall season with the ball games, especially the OSU games in this house hold a welcome part of Saturdays. And I can’t forget the seemingly inherent HGTV cooking and home remodeling shows as background that are usual here for Saturdays. 

My second photo club’s upload for yesterday was the interesting piece of landscape in my neighborhood.

My neighbor is doing the weekly (sometimes daily) yard beautifying, which adds enjoyable curb appeal to the neighborhood. Bob is doing our lawn mowing and weed wacking (not so much “beautifying”). 

So today is a comfortable and satisfying weekend day. 

One of today’s photo a day uploads is “lucky”. As we were waiting for the grocery pick up Bob was showing me some “tips and tricks” on my new (used) car. As I watched him the photo of the day popped into my head and I realized how lucky I am to have him around to help me out in many ways. I am lucky to have two wonderful son's looking after this senior citizen.

The word today is honest. Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. Benjamin Franklin. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. George Washington. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. Socrates. Honest hearts produce honest actions. Brigham Young. Be true to your work, your word, and your friend, Henry David Thoreau. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson. Honest people don't hide their deeds. Emily Bronte.  I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  An honest man is always a child. Socrates. Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself, William Shakespeare. The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not, Marcus Aurelius. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock, Henry Ward Beecher. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are, Alexander Hamilton. Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck, Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  

As I was out and about this morning I saw this image and liked it for my second photo a day upload. The Halloween ghost getting ready for the season coming up right around the corner. 

I may have written a piece about Franklin Park earlier in my letters/blog. This may add to that information or be something new or a reminder. Franklin Park is over 150 years old. In 1852 eighty-eight acres two miles east of downtown was purchased and used for the Franklin County Fair. In 1874 the Ohio State Fair began there.  In 1884 it was opened for public use. Soon, the Palm House was built in a “grand Victorian-style glass green house”. In was opened to the public in 1895 as the Franklin Park Conservatory. In the early days there were carriage paths along with  a lake and boathouse. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department owned and operated the Conservatory until 1989. It became well known for horticultural excellence and rare and unusual plants. It grew to a place for family gatherings, weddings, and events. There was a renovation 1989 enlarging and expanding plant collections along with classrooms, a library a gift shop and café . In 1992 the event of Ameriflora took place. The event was “a six-month international horticulture exposition”.   Ownership and management changed after Ameriflora. In 1994 a new addition to the Conservatory agenda was the “debut” of Blooms and Butterflies “becoming the first conservatory in the nation to showcase a seasonal butterfly exhibition”. In 2003 there was an exhibit of Chihuly at the Conservatory. Since then there have been exhibits that “merge nature and art”. The Conservatory has continued to offer work by local artists and annual exhibitions. One of the latest additions is the Children’s Garden that supports outreach and education missions, promoting active learning for all ages, with an emphasis on health and the natural sciences.

I am trying a Deviled Egg Pasta Salad with chicken fires for dinner tonight. 

Joy

    Someone must have said...“I’m late for a very important date...”

 September 15, 2022 a thought for today, Truth does not need many words. Russian Proverb

The first photo a day upload yesterday was “odd one out”. What an adventure looking for an image to match this title. As I was cruising the neighborhood this one grabbed my thinking on a design for an odd one out.  The two (or three) upright poles in line with a more 3D rectangular box. 

I had an appointment today for a follow up on a completed solution to a digestive problem. The appointment was located at a good distance from my house so Lowell was taking me. But before it was time to leave for the appointment. Sue called to me that she was having some chest pains and we felt we should call 911. So we had the emergency squad here for a bit. As turned out everything is ok. They felt the problem is a reaction to a new medication she is on. That was a relief. 

The second up load for September 14 was a free choice. I chose this abstract I generated using Photoshop filters. The original image was hollyhock flower.

I got to my appointment on time (no thanks to a couple of traffic jams). All was well there too. After the appointment Lowell took me to breakfast. 

My photo a day entry for today is “a food shop”. I forgot to get photos at Bob Evans where Lowell took me for breakfast today so I used this one that I shot last Saturday at curb side pick up.

Once back home it was back to the computer and a start on the laundry. That will be it for the rest of the day except for fixing dinner and that clean up. 

The day started out cool. But according to the weather reports we are supposed to have some more heat in a few days and for a few days. I got two of the vacationing house plants transplanted and ready to be brought back in the house. I think that will not have to happen for a couple of more weeks. 

This photo a day upload for my second one this day is from my archives, a capture of the Columbus city sky line from a park/greenscace in the foreground. 

The word today is home.  He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius. To light the poorest home; hearts warmer grow, Louisa May Alcott. The home is the chief school of human virtues. William Ellery Channing. A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration, Charles Dickens. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul, Michel de Montaigne.   There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. Rumi. Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, Harriet Beecher Stowe.  All language is a longing for home, Rumi.  The home is the chief school of human virtues, William Ellery Channing. 

This is another one of those days for an upload from my third online photo club. The assignment title for this one is “hole or holes”. A handy one for me to shoot and upload quickly was one of the perfectly round hole in the arm of my front porch swing. This is the hole that allows the chair through the arm to the seat of the swing. 

I think using bicycles for transportation for a couple of reasons. One of them would be for a person’s physical anatomical health and a second for the quality of the air we as society breath. At an earlier time in my life I did use a bicycle to get around. Now it is not in the area of feasible. I found this article when I was searching for a bit of news for you. Columbus is looking at “upgrading existing bike and pedestrian lanes” for better safety. Excising lanes would be upgraded to “protected lanes”. According to the article only one bike lane is “physically protected from car traffic”, Summit Street in the University District. The ideas being ironed out are  “to determine where we may have available space and minimal conflicts”. Also in the works is trying to come up with different materials and methods for separation from traffic and the pedestrians/bicycles. In those situation to consider are “approaches for snow and debris removal”. I understand there is a lot of bike riding and walking in Europe....I’ve never considered how pedestrian and bike traffic are handled there. So I did a quick search: While Americans can take pride in their growing bike culture, cycling has been ubiquitous in European communities for decades. In Denmark, 16 percent of all trips—and 25 percent of trips less than 3 miles—are made by bike. I’m sure their methods for safety have been studied and implemented over an aeon of time. Of course, automobile traffic is mostly likely a little different here and there also. The ongoing plan here in Columbus is for a “Downtown Multimodal Transportation Study, which will examine the feasibility of potential bike, transit and pedestrian upgrades”. To proceed with caution pilot programs in urban area will be tested by using temporary barriers before installing permanent ones. Speed limits and traffic signal timing are in the mix. I am going to keep my eye on this project. Bicycling for moving from one point to another is an old and rewarding type. It will be interesting to live in an area of the gentler form of transportation combined with the modern era of technology occurring together with other areas of our lives. 

I am looking to fixing creamed beef on toast for dinner. 

Joy

                    Hanging in there....'til the work is done

 

 September 13, 2022 a thought for today, The hammer shatters glass but hardens steel. Russian Proverb

The first photo club photo a day upload for yesterday was “symmetry”. When we concentrate on a word like symmetry or asymmetry it give cause for speculation, for me at least. I feel that this is symmetry in this leaves as there is in most of natures living art. 

Yesterday turned out to be a full of “things to do” day. I needed to have some maintenance done on the car so I arranged a time for that. I am lucky to have Bob here and he can help me out with this one. He is going to take the car in for service on that day that I don’t need it. He works there making it convenient for both of us. I also needed to do some “paper work on line” for an upcoming doctors appointment. I needed to move some furniture to begin to make room for house plants. I got part of a corner cleared and arranged to move a heavier piece of furniture. When Bob got home he moved that piece for me. I downloaded a new book, I finished one and needed a new one. Another James Patterson, Murder Interrupted (so far it hasn’t grabbed my attention...I’ll give it a little more time). And then Sweet Pea needed a refill on her homemade meat ball treats so that is done and some stored for a couple of  weeks. 

The second photo a day upload for September 12, 2022 is open for choice this month, there are no daily “assignments” for this club. My choice today is another image of one of my departed best furry friends. This is Sugar, she went over the rainbow bridge, as they say, about a year ago.

Today is a little less involved. Sue needs a ride to an appointment later, the dishwasher needs tended to and I want to cook the beef in the pressure cooker for dinner and get it ready to add the vegetables later. I am also waiting for the bulletin information so I can get it finished. 

My first upload for today is “tasty”. I found this one in my archives as I took a trip through there this morning. This is my great-niece as she enjoys, with her eyes closed...the best way, you know...an ice cream bar.

The word today is hidden.  It is hidden but always present, Laozi. A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one, Heraclitus.  Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance, Horace. Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them, Francois de la Rochefoucauld. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart, Charles Dickens. Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge, Robert Bulwer-Lytton. Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. Galileo Galilei. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle. Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden. Rumi.  The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. Ovid. Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? Saint Augustine. Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. Horace. 

My second upload today was an image and found and captured as I cruised through the neighborhood on my way home from dropping Sue off for her appointment yesterday.

It looks like a new educational event may be beginning. I am a member of one of the churches observing this new adventure in our area. The article is discussing the “new model for establishing religious schools”. In this particular article “in August, 31 children from the Hilltop and Franklinton areas began attending a new religious school called Westside Christian inside converted Sunday school classrooms at Memorial Baptist Church”. It is called a “micro-school” that is a low-cost way to open private schools in unreserved communities. This one is called EdChoice. It is financed by state education dollars instead of private donations. It is hoped that is it is successful there will be hundreds more to open. There are eight churches that have come together to start this conjecture. This group has set a goal to open five to ten more in Ohio in the next year. Public school “advocates” believe this is a “misuse of the EdChoice Scholarship system” and feel it reduces the service of public schools. The Westside Christian school idea began with $100,000 in donations. A main financial savings point came from using an existing Sunday school classroom, gym and kitchen. As the article mentions "Church buildings are empty six days a week, and we have students in failing schools who need another option." The children that this project will educate don’t have the money for private schools, “EdChoice is a lifeline for them”. A worry of some people is that there is no record of the success of these type schools and for the ones that fail students “come back significantly behind academically”. Another negative comment on the plan is that “there is a mythology that private is better”. Time will tell. Hopefully it will be a success as it grows and provide a type of education for those who may not otherwise have the chance. 

 I am making a “stew”, with a couple of additions, that I saw on the Drew Barrymore show for dinner tonight.

Joy

              natures daily affects and mans target practice

 September 11, 2022 thought for today, Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. Polish Proverb

The first photo a day upload for September 10 was “I can hear    ”. I hear the music in the wind. 

I love Sunday’s. A great day to start again, fresh and recharged. We had a member of our congregation give the message for our church service today. He did an excellent job. He talked about the happening in our country known as “9/11". Mainly about one of the fire engine companies and a person they were trying to help as the second building was destroyed. It was a touching message. And for me, brought back memories of experiences my own fire family had. Heart touching experiences. Anyway the whole thing was relating to people helping people. And on a side note and thought, we had a member come back to us today that has been away for a while. I hope she continues to come back...we need her. 

The next photo a day upload for yesterday was “popup challenge...wood”. This was an old door with the paid cracked and peeling that was taken down and refurbished. 

After church we had a donut fellowship. It’s always nice to have that kind of bonding with like-minded friends. 

As usual for my Sundays there is not much on the agenda today so not much to write about. It gives me a chance to educate myself on things that pop into my head even if it is something I won’t particularly use at the moment but put away in my memory for a time when I may need it or something that is a tangent to its meaning. How glad I am in this generation of technology that allows me to gather knowledge in seconds rather than search one or more books of an encyclopedia taking hours for the same information.  

This is one of the days I had a third photo a day upload. This one was called “in the woods”. This is a tiny woods inside a nearby local park. I have added a motion filer to give it a “mysterious” look.  

The word for today is help.  Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love, Rumi. More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us, George Eliot. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help, Abraham Lincoln.  He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. Saint Augustine.  I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Martin Luther.  I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid. Joan of Arc. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. William Morris.   No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another, Charles Dickens. Not for ourselves alone are we born, Marcus Tullius Cicero.   Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for the night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than anyone, Victor Hugo.  The deed is everything, the glory is naught, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

Todays first upload is “paint”. This is a photo of one of my sister’s original paintings. 

We all use paper, all kinds of paper so I thought this article about paper making in our community, actually about neighbors of our community, would be interesting.  There is and has been a papermaking process in the Scioto Valley. This papermaking story has been in existence in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century. It is said that Southeastern Ohio is “an ideal location for making paper since water and trees are in abundance....the Teays River supplies Chillicothe  with an almost inexhaustible supply of water and surrounding forests’ supply a mix of hardwood and softwood trees needed for printing paper manufacturing”. The first paper mill in the area was established in 1810 where the paper was initially made from linen and cotton rags. The owners of the mill advertized in the Scioto Gazette in 1810 that they wanted clean linen and cotton rags and would pay 3¢ a pound for it. In 1852 descendants of the first paper makers bought a paper mill on Honey Creek in Chillicothe and was called Entrekin, Green, and Company. This mill was operated by different owners until 1871. In 1890 Colonel Daniel Mead of Dayton bought the mill at auction. After that the Mead Paper Company became a two mill operation (there was a mill in Dayton also) and would become an international company. Eventually the company “fell on hard times”. In 1905 a new manager, Harry Mead’s son George was hired. He was credited with bringing the company into an international business. George had a good history and education in business before he was hired. At first he declined the offer of the job but afer some time he decided to make the change. He had to “turn around the facility with dilapidated buildings and equipment”. During the depression he was able to keep the company in good shape. The company had grown and changed with his management. The Mead Corporation merged with Westvaco Paper Company in 2002. The mill on Honey Creek was the “engine” for the company and “provided a good standard of living for Chillicothe and thousands of families in southeastern Ohio”. 

The next upload for today is another “popup challenge....wood”. An image of a part of a replica of the Santa Maria that was docked on the Scioto River in our downtown are.

It’s takeout for dinner tonight ...... haven’t decided where yet. 

Joy

                               assured cleared distance