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