February 10, 2023 a thought for today, The righteous say little and do much. Jewish Proverb

The first upload for February 9 was “something in nature”. I saw this reflection in the puddle that was left in a parking lot after the rain from over night.

This is one of those “I love Fridays” Friday. There’s not much on the agenda giving me time to work on things that have been put on the back burne4r for a while. 

Yesterday’s printing session moved a little quicker than some others....there was no extra page to be inserted this week saving fifteen minutes of time and motion. There were others of my church family there in the church bringing in food for the food pantry this week. I could hear their voices and activity as I worked. 

Then next photo I uploaded yesterday was “diamond”. I had this shot in my archives from a couple of years ago when I stopped by the ball field on my way home from an errand.

The weather isn’t quite what I envisioned from the weather reports. They were saying warm for February so, after the cold we have had recently, I am thinking (dreaming?) 60 degrees. It’s not...the temperature at the bottom of my computer screen says “40". And as I look out the window no gorgeous blue sky, just blue gray (more gray than blue).

The first upload for today is “a corner”. This corner of my living room is where I have me indoor garden of house plants when the live during the winter months. 

The word today is carry.  Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. Lord Chesterfield.  Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Martha Washington.  Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Charles Spurgeon.  Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi. You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. Charles Dickens.  Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. James Russell Lowell.  To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. William Hazlitt. Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.   

The next upload was “F is for....”. This is another photo from the archives. It was taken at Franklin Park a year ago when I was on a photo outing.

This article is a bit about our history and well as informative. It is about “airships”, also called dirigibles. The title said they “once ruled the skies” a century ago. The description in the article is “giant airships that resembled huge sausages”. A bit of history here “people had been trying to take flight since the mythical Icarus and Daedalus (created wings made of feathers and wax to escape from Crete ....wings melted and he fell into the sea)”. Others have tried with gliders and hot air balloons. In 1842 there was a hot air balloonist in Columbus on a trip in his hot air balloon who “was at the mercy of prevailing winds”. Airships take flight by large gas bags.  At one time the gas was hydrogen which was highly flammable. Helium doesn’t seem to work as well but is safer. The article explains that there are three classes of airships....rigid, semi-rigid and non-rigid. That latter depends on internal pressure of the gas to maintain their shape. In 1905 there was an “early aviator” at the Ohio State Fair who captivated a fifteen-year-old who later built his own form of air travel. He attached a bicycle frame to a gas bag, used a sprocket wheel on the bicycle as a propeller. In 1907 he “manipulated it gracefully at an altitude of 200 feet for an hour”. He went on with other adventures. In 1911 he flew over the Continental Divide. In 1903 along came Wilbur and Orville Wright, aeronauts in Dayton Ohio. Biplanes of the time were made of silk and balsa wood and were hazardous. In the 1890s a man named Zeppelin began to develop “fully rigid dirigible (airship)” with multiple gas bags”. The first one was 420 feel long and 38 feet in diameter. After a trial period these “ships” were used for pleasure and business flights forming the first world airline. Gourmet dinners were served on board. It is said they were more comfortable than “sitting on a bamboo chair in the crowded interior of a Ford Trimotor airplane” also in the air in that time period. In 1929 Port Columbus opened. They were able to handle dirigibles. At the same time the “The American Insurance Union Citadel – now known as the LeVeque Tower – was completed in 1927 and called itself an American Air Harbor”. I was amazed to learn in the article that it was designed to “receive dirigible passengers to its top floor. That never happened”. The “day of the airship was passing” from 1925 and 1936 when some of the most famous airships crashed one being the Hindenburg. 

This is one of the days I had a third upload. Today it is titled “minimalist”. I found this one little leaf on my driveway after the rain yesterday. 

It’s pizza night again....yea!

Joy

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