April 15, 2023 a thought for today, Work is our business; it's success is God's. German Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “this season”. It seemed only natural to show bright blooming flowers as a representative of this season. 

What a gorgeous day we are having including one of the major sounds of spring and summer....lawn mowers. There is a lawn mower engine running in the neighborhood, but it isn’t going anywhere???? I can’t figure what the reason for that might be???? I understand that at the end of a season gasoline may be run out of a mower or snow blower for storage but at the beginning of a season? I wouldn’t mind having the cash value that that is burning up. 

We, Bob, me, and Sweet Pea, picked up the weekly curbside grocery order. Most of it has been put away but I need to make room in the freezer for the rest of it. 

The next upload for yesterday was “frozen”. There’s not much frozen around here right now. So I opened the ice maker drawer in the freezer and stuck a straw in it for a bit of color. 

I am having a bit of a problem with my new washer. It is so powerful that it “walks” from its location when it is in the last spin cycles. My basement floor is uneven and slants towards a drain. The washer’s front two “legs” or corners are just a tiny bit into the slant. I hope to have it fixed before my next laundry day or it may be another trip to the laundromat, ugh. 

I’m taking a break to put the rest of the groceries away, and find three photos of the day to share with you...... 

...... I’m back....to finish this missive.... 

One upload for today is “something white”. I like the pattern on the white plastic privacy fence in my neighbor’s yard but decided to use the side of the white garage with a shadow showing. 

The word today is happy.  ...the only possible good in the universe is happiness. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to try and make somebody else so, Robert G. Ingersoll.  ...Thus pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find...William Wordsworth.  Happiness is a form of courage. American proverb. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant.  One joy scatters a hundred griefs. Chinese proverb.  Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Henry Ward Beecher.  Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, Aristotle.  Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time, Josh Billings.  It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness, Thomas Jefferson.  The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher.  He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato. As health produces health, so does philosophical wisdom produce happiness. Wisdom is a part of virtue that once possessed makes a man happy, Aristotle. Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. Virgil

A second upload for today was “broken”. This image show several broken pieces. A very old piece of wood and some chipped cement along with a chipped brick. 

This article is about a photographer who enjoyed his work of a life time and was well respected in his community. The story was written several years ago so time has passed and his work has become a memory. What a wonderful memory the work of photography leaves to be enjoyed...like no other. It was in Mt. Vernon Ohio. He “liked fast cars and digital technology”. As part of his passion for photography getting up in the middle of the night to shoot photos of a fire didn’t bother him. He worked as the only full time photographer for the Mount Vernon News “since the Eisenhower administration”. The article shared that he was “shooting pictures for so long that he sometimes photographed the grandchildren of people he photographed as high-school students”. When the article was written his age was slowing him down leading to giving up sporting events and auto races. He was quoted as saying he couldn’t stand or walk as long as he use to, a subject I can attest to. He began his photography in high school. While he was in the Army he took photos for the military police. When he started his photography at the newspaper in 1955 he used a “a boxy Speed Graphic camera, once a staple of photojournalism.....photographed John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush when their presidential campaigns brought them to Ohio”. He said his biggest photo job was of the 1959 flood. There was no drinking water for days. A friend of him got a 5-gallon bucket of water for him to wash the negative in. At the interview he mentioned all the years he spent in the dark room and now he enjoyed the digital age.

This is one of the days I had a third upload. This one is titled “sugar or salt”. I couldn’t think of something photogenic about plain sugar or salt so I use the “salt free” bottle of ice melt. I’m not pleased with the total layout. I wanted to vignette it but it didn’t come out to my liking. 

I think it’s going to be another air fry dinner tonight or something from the freezer....there is some goulash in there?. 

Joy

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