September 5, 2022 a thought for today, When the devil finds the door shut he goes away. Spanish Proverb

This first upload on September 4 was “somewhere I went”. I went to church yesterday morning. 

I was thinking that this Labor Day would be a nice peaceful day to relax and move slooowly. Well it has been a bit different. I got the virtual visits out of the way and a good deal of this week’s bulletin started. There were a couple of things I wanted to pick up at the art supple store and Sue usually likes to look around there too. So... started out. 

The second photo a day upload I made for yesterday was an image I made when I
stopped at McDonalds for take out brunch. 

 It was poring rain when we started and there wasn’t a lot of traffic at first. We both picked up what we wanted. Then we stopped that the Kroger store in Galloway, a much larger store than our normal stop. There were a couple of items that were out of stock on our curbside pick up. After we left there, we stopped at a McDonalds, that is where I realized I forgot my purse at the store. So I frantically rushed back. Some very thoughtful person turned it into the service desk for me. What a relief. 

 

One of the photos a day uploads for today is “hobby”. I have a few. I notch out the day for them with a purpose in mind, besides the hobby itself. Anyway, they hobbies are reading ebooks, doing a certain amount of conative exercises a day (beside getting in the 2000 step physical exercises), crocheting and paper quilling. There is always the photography I do each and every day.

Finally at home I glued myself to the computer again. I still have my photo a day “assignments” to finish and then start dinner. 

Finally, the sun is coming out. But things are still pretty wet. 

The second photo a day upload for today is Sweet Pea waiting for Sue to come out of the post office. 

The word for today is gift.  God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire,  A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Horace. A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. Martin Luther.  God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. Aeschylus. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Love the giver more than the gift, Brigham Young. The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts, Buddha.  The gift without the giver is rare, James Russell Lowell.  A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus, Thomas Carlyle.   For it is in giving that we receive, Francis of Assisi.  Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 

Today was one of the days I have a third photo a day upload. This one was called “abstract in orange”. This image was originally a green bottle style bud vase. I used a filter called Flaming Pear with a sub filter called Fexify 2. Using the algorithms within these filers I finally arrived at this arrangement. Would you believe this was found inside that little bud vase? (an image of the bud vase used for this abstract image is at the bottom of the page (*) 

Here is a bit of history about another neighboring community. This one is about Grandview Heights. Mr. Stone, owned the Ohio Buggy Works and the Seagrave Company (makers of fire engines). He was an entrepreneur, trustee at the OSU, and president of the OSU Research Foundation. He donated money to the OS and the Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie to the OSU. He was involved in other entrepreneurial efforts outside of Ohio. In some of his endeavors he met Nathaniel Galloway, a trapper and prospector in Utah. In 1896-97 he, Galloway, made trips by boat to   the Green and Colorado rivers. This gave Mr. Stone the idea to “repeating the trip to document the course of the river, river rapids and other features of the Grand Canyon. Together they built a flat-bottomed boat that was made of Michigan pine. On the trip the canyon walls, geological formations and landmarks along with other significant things that impact rivers due to erosion. Mr. Stone gave a lecture at Ohio State in 1910. He told about some of the injuries and disease that were experiences on the trip. At one point the trip met treacherous rapids. One of the men on the trip suffered a head injury. That part of the rapids were then named afer him, Dubendorf. The upper rapids were named for Galloway and the lower rapids named for Stone. Mr. Stone wrote a book about this trip “Canyon Country: The Romance of a Drop of Water and a Grain of Sand”. The book is a legacy of this prominent early resident of Grandview. Most of that route of the river is under the waters of Lake Powell now. Photographs from the book show a “rare look at the original canyon topography”.  

We are having hot dogs, brats and left overs for dinner.

Joy

* the bud base used to generate the abstract image above

not welcome....not now