April 17, 2023 a thought for today, Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage. German Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “composite of at least five images”. I had the one image that had created with three different images of hibiscus in the archives. I pulled another image I had of a mixed arrangement of two more kinds of flower and put them together to get this composite.  

I got more work on the newsletter and downloaded some photos from my email that will go in the newsletter after I run them through the “darkroom (Photoshop) for final adjustment in size and focus. I haven’t started the bulletin yet but the pastor giving the sermon this week supplies all material needed. It takes as much time or more to edit due to the formatting but also offers a cut and paste feature. 

After I take a break, I need to work on a couple of household chores. Then back to the computer. ....While I was on “break” I got the kitchen sink cleaned and some other things put away. 

The next upload for yesterday was “what inspires me”. This one was taken in my church. The altar, the US flag and the sanctuary itself  inspire me. 

Now it’s back to computer work and photos....my life’s story. 

I may have time to get started on the bulletin also this afternoon barring any other things coming up. 

It is not such a nice spring day today, it feels more like early autumn. It has rained a little and the temperature has dropped considerably. It will get better and I hope it will stick around for awhile. I can’t believe how much wind we have been having in the last couple of weeks. 

My first image upload for today is “starts with B”. I think this ball was most likely blown into my yard from some young peoples games. 

The word for today is heart.  Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know... William Shakespeare. Our hearts are lamps for ever burning... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  As there are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write, so the heart is a secret even to him (or her) who has it in his own breast. William Makepeace Thackeray.  I took you to my heart to keep it warm... Robert Browning. Always I have a chair for you in the smallest parlor in the world, to wit, my heart. Emily Dickinson.  Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius.  The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome.  True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honore de Balzac.  A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens.  Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Rumi.  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert Green Ingersoll.  The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Henry Ward Beecher.  If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller.  While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi.  

The second upload for today is “curves and lines”. This shapes on this house, in my neighborhood, always captures my eye. There are lines, patterns, shapes and touches of color everywhere. 

A story about the Peanut Shop was on Columbus Neighborhoods last Thursday. I thought I would share it here. When I worked downtown (for fifteen years) my friends and I would some times take our lunch hour to walk further into “downtown”. We would often passed the Peanut Shoppe and stop for a bag of still warm peanuts. The shop was located at 5 S. High Street from 1936 to 1978 then moved to 46 N. High Street. In 2014 it was moved to its current location, 21 E State Street. The current owners bought the shop in 1996 but they had experience part of their life there before that. The husband of the two found a job at the Peanut Shoppe when he graduated from high school. He dressed as Mr. Peanut and was the living and walking as an advertisement for the shop. Later he became the manager before he and his wife purchased the business. They have kept the costume all this time. According to the article they are the longest running retail business in the downtown area, when Lazarus left the area that put them at the top of the list. You have to consider the difference in canned peanuts that may have been “cooked” six to eight months before you buy them. Here at the shop they were cooked no more than two days ago. They have continued to add items to their offerings like gummy bears and dark chocolates. People also enjoy cashews nearly as much as the peanuts. There are Spanish peanuts too and extra large red skins. One of the popular items is the mixed nuts.  They offer a “tree mix”. These nuts are grown on trees and there are no peanuts in that mix of those nuts grown on trees. Popular at the store are “chocolate covered peanuts and pecan turtles as well as Sno Cap and Swedish Fish candies”. “We customize everything we do,” she added. “I have a meeting with a gentleman who wants to get some two-pound tins for the holidays, but he’s not sure what. I said, ‘It’s always better to do it face to face. We custom make every gift.” 

I think I am going to make chili for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

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