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

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