October 17, 2022, Most adults are attentive to what someone is doing, but children see beyond that. Indian Proverb

The plan for Sue to rent a car on Sunday to go see the twins fell through. That was a huge disappointment, I felt so bad for her. After some calls she was able to arrange for the girls to be dropped off here for an hours visit. That brightened things considerably. We both got to enjoy seeing their growth (in height and in attitude....they are coming closer to pre-teen in that sense). 

One of the uploads for yesterday was “one colour”. It’s really difficult to separate a landscape photo to just one color. It’s not easy to separate anything with just one color. I tried with this vehicle. It is a beautiful red car but there are small “color” touches here and there. 

Saturday after we got home from the grocery pick up and put away Bob went back to Kroger to get his annual flu shot and was able to get it as a walk in. Sue had tired to get hers at Walgreen a week ago as a walk in and was told she needed an appointment. So today she and I went to Kroger and got ours....as walk ins. I will plan to get me COVID booster in a couple of weeks and see that Bob does too. 

The second upload for yesterday.....I dipped into my archives again. This was taken in my side yard a couple of years ago. 

After we got our shots, we did a little shopping for some things we had forgotten. Then Sue needed to do some other short errands. As she was completing her errands, I waited in the car and caught up on some photo captures and some reading in my newest book selection....”Never” by Ken Follett. It’s a long one and I am hoping I will be able to finish it before I have to ask for an extension on the twenty-one day limit. 

Today the weather is turning to the cooler parts of autumn. There is a slight chill in the air and the wind is picking up. But the tree colors are gorgeous. Time for raking leaves is only a few days away now. 

I am wanting to get a new ipad (tablet). The one I have is about six years old (5 gig memory). The new ones are up to  512 gig now. That one, the 512 gig, is way out of my reach money wise but anything bigger than the one I have now is a huge improvement. I have contacted an old  friend, a top-notch IT that I worked with years ago, for advice. 

The upload I made for today to fit the assignment title, “two colours” took a little searching. I like the “searching”. It makes me more observant and I notice a lot of things that I would otherwise not see. This is one of the walls at McDonalds. 

I have to get some other things done in a while and I want to work a little more on my paper quilled sea turtle in the under water scene I am doing for one of great grand children before I leave for my session meeting at church tonight.  

The word for today is neglect.  If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. Plato. Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. Diogenes.  Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves, Owen Feltham.  A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of the shoe the horse was lost; for want of the horse the rider was lost--being overtaken and slain by an enemy--all for the want of care about a horse-shoe nail, Benjamin Franklin.  Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. Sophocles. Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it. John Quincy Adams. A little neglect may breed great mischief, Benjamin Franklin.  Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering, Henry Ward Beecher. Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists, Martin Luther.  

For the second upload today I have another choice from the archives. This is a neighbor’s house. The textures and shapes caught my attention. 

It seems that the number of bicycle trails are growing around Columbus. Hopefully this is good for so many reasons, personal and community wise. This time this article is talking about a bike trail that would provide connections to the south side including the New Metro Park. “Metro Parks has applied for funding to build a bike and pedestrian bridge over Route 104 on the South Side”. It is part of a new trail that would run from Scioto Audubon Metro Park to I-270.This would connect “several destinations along the way.....a much more direct connection to downtown than the Scioto Trail does”.Some of the land for this project is behind the Great Southern shopping center. There is a quarry on the west and I-270 in the south. This new part of the trail would be “just under four miles in length”. It would be near a stretch of land that was once a canal. Another part of the trail would travel through Heer Park. Metro Parks has also applied for a new trail connection at Highbanks Park. This would include a new bridge connecting the River Bluff Area to the main park.  

I think we will be having hamburgers and fries (in the air fryer) for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                This is just a normal sight in neighborhoods.