November 2, 2022 a thought for today, To know another is not to know that person's face, but to know that person's heart. Chinese Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “collection”. The photo was on my mind when I enchanted the “collection” of pumpkins and bales of hay in a holiday decoration. 

I have gotten a lot of itty bitty things done this morning .... they all add up. A lot of it was research on different subjects to help in upcoming projects. I got an email out about this Sunday’s service that is going to be a bit of a special honoring members who have passed in the last two years. I uploaded the newsletter, a little late, late better than never. I also added updated the web page a bit.  And few dished washed. 

Another photo a day upload for yesterday was “birds in flight”. Can you imagine what a difficult shot this is?. This image is from my archives, one I made when I happened to have camera in hand and set to capture this flock of geese as they flew over. That doesn’t happen often for me. On another note about birds in fight, as I sit at my computer I can gaze out the window and I watch a small “flock”, maybe eight or ten, sparrows fly en masse to a bush in my neighbor’s yard. I’ve never had a camera ready to capture them. 

Bob went with me to do some shopping for things I have been needing to replace. We went to Micro Center. I got my new ipad. After some time “playing” with it last night I find there are some hiccups I am going to have to deal with and iron out before I can use all the features. I seem to run into that kind of thing with each new and updated technical gadget I buy. They get more and more sophisticated....awesome for progress but daunting to adjust, for me as I age. 

Looks like it is going to be another one of the easy going days for the rest of the day up to dinner time. 

An upload for today is “a book cover”. I read ebooks now in my life....use to be hard cover as I was growing up, audio books when I was working and traveled some, now ebooks. The only books I have around the house are several different bibles, cook books, kids (the twin’s) books, and an old collection left to me from family members. This is one of those....left to me by my dad. 

The word for today is points.  If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Confucius. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot. Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo.  Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. Blaise Pascal. Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. Horace. Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton. We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. Henry Ward Beecher.   We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. Charles Spurgeon. If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness. Lao Tzu. The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. Lactantius. 

The second upload for today is “trees”. Standing on my front porch there are all kinds of trees in sight. I live in an older, established neighborhood so we have an over head canvas of trees as we travel down the street. Most of them now are “skeletons” of bare branches with a left over next home showing now and then.  

This one is a bit about the history of the Short North area of Columbus. The article starts by relating that the Short North Neighborhood has been called “Columbus’s SoHo”. It also says, interestingly, “In a city of neighborhoods, it's the neighborhood that connects us to the past”. It has likenesses to Harrison West (grit) and Victorian Village (elegance). It is “anchored” as far as traditions go to Italian Village, has “vivid impressions of  Flytown, a past historic part of Columbus. It was once thought of as a blighted area near the university district and the downtown area. Nonetheless, there was/is a “charm” to some of the buildings and the “potential for redevelopment”. The area attracted a couple of “adventurous people” thirty years ago to this run down area who started the rise of what is not an art center of Columbus. Today on High Street from the Inner Belt to 5th Avenue there are dozens of art galleries and restaurants. After the Civil War this area was the “very edge of Columbus”. There was a landowner, Lincoln Goodale,  who gave more than 30 acres of land with the idea of it becoming a public park, one of the first public parks in the US. As part of the park’s history, Union troops were once stationed there during the Civil War. Later it was a major manufacturing area promoting a new neighborhood called “Flytown”.Workers at the factories were Polish people, German people and black people living next to each other. At that time it was an “area of poverty”. Cheap and “raggedy wood frame houses...flew up”. By the 1960's Flytown disappeared. There are parts of the “neighborhoods” that still stand. Part of Italian Village on the east side of High Street was formed by workers in local industries or the railroad. On the west side of High Street part of Victorian Village there are larger homes owned by prominent citizens. During the formation of  what is known as the Short North district preservation has been “an important slice of Columbus history”. 

It’s hodge podge night for cook ware....chili in stewing pot.....beans for chili in pressure cooker.... fried potato slices in the air fryer.....hot dinner rolls in the air fryer.

Joy

I don’t know what this yellow cone was placed in front of this vehicle for but it serves a purpose if is means to for passers-by to be careful.