May 15, 2023 a thought for today, Safely housed to listen to the storm outside. Latin Proverb

Yesterday I uploaded my first photo titled “I love this view....”. On my blog you have seen many images taken at this park. It can be a relaxing stop to enjoy an area of “green” in the city.

I am thinking a week ahead of the calendar. I was thinking it was time to work on the church newsletter....it’s next week. So I put time in working on the bulletin. I have it done except for last, most important items when they come in. 

The second upload for yesterday was titled “something new”. I am showing the new bud under the pedals of the fully open iris bloom. 

The cleaning lady was here so now things are bright and shiny. She likes the temperature to be “cool” so if it is a day when the furnace comes on she turns the thermometer down....before she is done I am feeling the “coolness”. On days when I find the need to express the most effort on chores, I have never noticed getting “over heated”, except in the full on sun rays. I guess/know all of us have a different metabolic rate making atmospheric pressures experienced on different levels.  

I made some “sun” tea then started the dish washer and putting things away, (when the cleaning lady comes I put a few things out of her way that I normally have in other spots) I will move onto the photo side of the day now.  

My first upload for today is “I know....”. I can see and know that Bob is getting his lunch. 

The word for today is motivational. It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich, Henry Ward Beecher.  It is never too late to be what you might have been, George Eliot.  The distance is nothing when one has a motive, Jane Austen.  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible, Francis of Assisi. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. St. Jerome.  Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake.  Never complain and never explain. Benjamin Disraeli.  Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles. To begin, begin. William Wordsworth. Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Saint Teresa of Avila. God always strives together with those who strive. Aeschylus.  The more we do, the more we can do. William Hazlitt.  From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune. Tecumseh. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin.  Everything is hard before it is easy. Goethe J.W. 

The second upload for today is back to “my choice”. This was taken on a hike in one of the metro parks a few years ago. 

This story maybe relating another way to help with climate change....dairy cows! It begins with the farmers working to produce “fresh, nutrient-dense dairy foods.....support healthy immune systems” for the cows foods and then food from the cows for humans. In producing nutritious food for the cow it actually has helped in “lowering emissions and conserving natural resources”. There are hints of how the “cow’s stomach” works in this process. With a “life cycle assessment ....on fluid milk” it is shown that “dairy accounts for approximately 2 percent of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions”. Due to “innovative farming and feed production practices” the production of milk in recent years (from 2007 to 2017) requires less water and land as well as a “smaller carbon footprint”....cutting carbon dioxide removal by half. Cows produce methane from their mouth in “burps” and from the other end as in manure. The methane from the manure can be stored and used to fertilize crops. Farmers are working to “minimize the impact of cow burps”. In the article it was noted that dairy cows are “the original recyclers” because about a third of their diet comes from “byproducts” like waste from food manufacturers: almond hulls, cottonseeds, citrus pulp and so on. So, because of their “digestive abilities”,  they are using “food” humans can’t eat then producing products we can use. There are studies in the reducing of the amount of methane they actually do produce.  There was, in deference to the plus side of things, a study to determine if there would be a measure of gain by cutting down on dairy farms. The result of the study showed that would happen at an expense to “human health and nutrition”. Getting to the point of the cow manure producing “renewable energy”....bacteria in the manure is broken down to create “biogas”. This biogas can be used for heat for warmth and gas as fuel. 

This being a day that I have three upload in my photo a day quest. This assignment was titled “berries”. Well, here you go....three berries on a dish. 

I am making lima bean soup (in the pressure cooker) for dinner tonight. 

Joy

  a painterly view of the notorious orange cones....this one a neighborhood path