April 29, 2023 a thought for today, He who buys useless things, later sells things that he needs. Japanese Proverb

Here it is Saturday again!! A wonderful day of the week (they all are, I guess, with each having a special feature in our week....in mine, at least). 

One of the uploads for yesterday was “simple joy”. I get a comfy feeling with the modern (compared to my last twenty-year-old car) signs and signals on the front panel of the car. 

Today, as the habit has grown, is grocery-curb-side-pick-up-day, for Bob, me and Sweet Pea. We got our task done along with a chat with Annie, our mostly usual “delivery (to the car)” girl.  She has had a major change in her life to share with us. It was a sad change but she looked happier for it, one of those kinds of changes that became a learning experience. 

Once the groceries were put up, I started work on finding my photos for today. One is from the archives (from way, way back....the beginning of my photography lifetime journey).  This photo is so old I made a digital copy of it for my archives. I was the family photographer back then, even had my own darkroom in the basement of the house in a room that use to be a room to store coal for our furnace (called a coal bin). I must have had a self timer for that photo even way back then because we were the only four people in the house and I was in the photo. For the other photo of the day I have to do a set up of potato chips. So while Bob is out mowing the lawn I will be getting that set-up set up.

Another upload for yesterday was “your (my) neighborhood”. This is an image of my clean and peaceful neighborhood. 

The weather is getting more and more like spring each day. The sun is still on the “in and out” process today but the air temperature is progressively more comfortable. 

My first upload for today is called “family”. I mentioned the search for this photo and a little about its “history”. The original was in color but it was so badly aged and had a deep yellow tinge. So I did some “recovery” work on it and used a filter to give a painted affect. 

The word for today is individuality.  No one should part with their individuality and become that of another, William Ellery Channing.  Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly, Saint Francis De Sales.  Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures, Henry Ward Beecher. There is just one life for each of us: our own, Euripides.  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The earth is a beehive; we all enter by the same door but live in different cells, Michel de Montaigne.  Who can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you? William Shakespeare.   If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise, Johann Von Goethe.  Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not, Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking, Benjamin Franklin.  A man is known by the books he reads, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

The other upload for today is titled “potato chips”. I couldn’t get too artistic with this shot. It is plain and simple. 

I saw a story on the PBS show Columbus Neighborhoods Thursday evening and they were telling about this bakery so I wanted to share it. The article is about a “World Class Bakery in Columbus Ohio”. It is located in German Village and is called Pistacia Vera. The two people who own it were born in Bexley. Earlier in their lives they each spent time in other areas of the US. One if Arizona as an apprentice from the American Culinary Federation eventually getting to the pastry station portion of the training where he find something he really enjoyed. He returned to Columbus a few years later. His sister moved to Virginia and worked in the financial field for a time then returned to Columbus. They then made plans together to open a sweet shop, the idea changing to a pastry shop. He does the baking, she handles the financial end of the business. They opened their business in 2004 in the Short North. The bakery talents became a “niche dessert business” with new “creations” always different from others. Their selections change with the seasons. In 2007 the business moved to German Village where the Thurn’s Bakery and Deli had once been in a 102 year old two story structure. They had the inside of the building redesigned. The entire second story of the building was removed to create an “open two story space with a mezzanine”. The outside of the building was preserved and repainted. The article shared that the couple’s “dessert shop” has become the “most recognizable destination bakery in the entire city.” 

Dinner tonight will be spaghetti. 

Joy 

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