October 1, 2022 a thought for today, Take care of your dress from when it's new and your honor from your youth. Russian Proverb

The first photo a day up load for yesterday was “sentimental”.

I felt this one gave a feeling of sentimentality, a young person’s hand in an adult hand. 

This is grocery pick-up day. I forgot to put some melon on the order so I had to go into the store before our order was ready to came out. 

I have been hearing about how a lot of people are enjoying air fryers so I have decided to buy one for our house. It’s another new device improving in technology. Sometimes the ways of doing things are best in the nature of the “good ol’ days” but why not try the new and live in the age that’s here.....that’s ours to experience. 

My second upload for yesterday as one from my stand by collection. This tree is in my neighbor’s yard and in full autumn show. 

I got the frig and sink cleaned out and ran the dish washer yesterday so that is one task off the today’s list. 

I have family in Florida and family in North Carolina so, like many people, I have been watching the path of Ian. It’s been two days now since it hit Florida and I haven’t heard from anyone there. It is about to hit North Carolina. 

The skies are getting a bit cloudy. We are supposed to get a bit of the rain Ian is spreading around later today. Hopefully the Ohio State game will be ok. 

My first upload for today, the beginning of a new month of theme photos. This one is “white”. This month will be a month of colors. I just got home from grocery shopping and had all these white pick-up bags from Kroger. 

The word today is life. The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss, Thomas Carlyle.  He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind, Leonardo da Vinci.  The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth.  We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens. For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life, William Blake.  How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning. The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over, Aesop. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo. Every moment of light and dark is a miracle, Walt Whitman. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves, Victor Hugo.  With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things, William Wordsworth. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead, Aristotle.

My second upload is from one of the gardens I visited on a photo search a couple of years ago.

It seems this is an event that make Ohio a place to visit....the Circleville Pumpkin Show. In 1903 the Mayor of Circleville shared his thoughts of a small exhibit in front of his business on West Main Street. He imagined corn fodder and pumpkins, some as Jack-O-Laterns, as the “principal decorations. It was called “the pumpkin show”. The next year several other “enterprising neighborhood merchants” joined him and the exhibition grew. In 1905 a merry-go-round was set up. Over the years as interest grew a permanent organization was formed of volunteers who vowed to hold an annual Pumpkin Show on the streets of Circleville. The goal was to promote and maintain friendly relationships with patrons and visitors of the community. The thinking was to continue to promote agricultural interests. It allowed for displays of grain, fruits and vegetables, school displays. All this promoted interests in Circleville and Pickaway County. The article passed on that the desire of the event is to “to keep the Pumpkin Show fair, clean and above reproach in every respect”. It has become the sixth largest festival in the United States. In the four day event over 300,000 persons visit the festivities. There is no admission charge or entry fee. The Pumpkin Show receives no subsidy or support and operates on income and donations and even reimbursing the City of Circleville for additional expenses such as extra police duty and other efforts of the city.  

I am thinking I am going to try a ground beef beef stew for dinner, maybe over biscuits. 

Joy

The next two and last images in this message are my composites for the photo a day for two of the three clubs I work with each month. 

Sudbury Photography Club

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