November 18, 2022 a thought for today, Its better to stumble with your feet than to stumble with your mouth. African Proverb

The first photo upload for yesterday was “wrinkles”. I sure didn’t want to do a selfie and show all of my wrinkles so used an old piece of aluminum foil and smooched it around to make wrinkles especially for this capture. Then positioned it in front of my black core board background panel.

I like Fridays. Some times it’s feels like air coming out of a balloon must feel. So I made a short list of things to accomplish today. 

One thing I wanted to do today was stop at the church to take photos of the Christmas decorating that was supposed to be  going on. I had mentioned it in the bulletin this week in hopes others would come to help. I surmised a time of ten o’clock. When I mentioned that time to someone else I was told that was ok. So I went to the church at ten to take photos for the newsletter....no one was there. I’ll try to get some photos on Sunday.

The second upload for yesterday was “favorite colour”. Yesterday my favorite color was red. I have many “favorite colors depending on the day and the mood. This is an OSU sweat shirt that was in my pile of laundry and was handy to capture with the camera. 

I have an extra for you today.....this is the same image as the one above, the “favorite colors”... truly, it is...I just used a fexify Photoshop plugin filter on it to bring out the “art” that was hidden within

On the way home from my church stop, I stopped by the park in search of ideas for my two photos for today. I think I got some good ones. It’s cold outside so I didn’t want to get out of the car or keep the windows down for too long as I was searching and snapping.

It’s time to make Sweet Pea’s “special” meat balls. I almost forgot to take the meat out of the freezer so now I have to wait for it to thaw before I can start mixing and shaping and baking. 

Then to top off the afternoon I will make the online curbside pick up order.

This first photo upload for today is “an empty table”. I found this one as I drove through the park....the picnic table is nearly hidden behind the evergreens.

The word for today is serious.  Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment. Horace.  To think of shadows is a serious thing. Victor Hugo.  No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. Christopher Columbus. How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? Vincent Van Gogh. The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others, Homer. In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master, Marcus Tullius Cicero. A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land, Martin Luther. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green, Thomas Carlyle.  We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results, Herman Melville.  No man is more than another unless he does more than another, Miguel de Cervantes.  

My next upload for today is “diagonal”. I spotted this roof of diagonal lines also as I drove through the park today. I didn’t get to take my photo of the Christmas decorating at church today but I got a slew of other shots instead...kind of like “make hay while the sun shines”.

This Ohio Village is a great place to visit especially for history buffs but also for the educational advantages. The article starts “Ohio Village is a living history museum”. When is was created in 1974,  “the intent was to provide a view of life in Ohio during the American Civil War”. The theme was built and stays centered toward life in the 1890's. I have visited the village several times, twice in an “official” nature. One time the group of calligraphers I belonged to visited and had lunch and a tour. The second time was of a more “personal” nature. I practiced the art of paper marbling at one point in my life. I sought an invitation to demonstrate the art one summer at the village. My daughter and my daughter-in-law joined me to help. We all dressed in period clothing. Both times were exciting and memory making for me. Back to a description of the village. The buildings are, of course,  “reproductions”. There is a John Hauck Foundation Welcome Center, a Village Schoolhouse, a Town Hall, The Telegraphic Advertiser, a Church, a Masonic Lodge, an American House Hotel and Tavern, a Bank, a Pharmacy, Blacksmith, Barn and much more.  A popular event at the village that happens every year is “All Hallow’s Eve”. It is an 1860s-style celebration of Halloween in October. It includes fortune telling, “interpretations of beliefs and superstitions related to the season”, and a parade. At the end of the evening there is a rendition of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow. At Christmas time there are carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides, a Victorian Santa Clause and more. The village has it’s own baseball teams called the Ohio Village Muffins and Lady Diamonds. The article describes it as “both teams play by the 19th-century rules of the game, very similar to those followed by the New York Knickerbockers, an early baseball club, in 1845". There is a baseball festival at the village in the late summer where similar teams come to compete in a “tournament play by the old rules.”

Pizza! (It’s an old habit ...... but a nice one)

Joy

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