June 2, 2023 a thought for today, In a small house God has His corner, in a big house He has to stand in the hall. Swedish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday as “a single flower”. I don’t seem to have anything blooming in the yard right now so I pulled this one from my archives. I like the lighting in this image. 

What a gorgeous day. Spring is here with summer poking its head in for a peek. No rain in the near forecast so that means the hose is going to have to come out for the next few days. 

This is one of those Friday’s with a short to-do list. I like those. I did some watering, the house plants seemed to be sensing the coming heat predictions, then I did a little other clean up. Followed by  some research on the computer, I enjoy researching, it is almost always enlightening offering more information than I was originally looking for. 

The second upload for yesterday was another of “your (my) choice”. This one happens to be another one from the archives. My sunflowers plants were destroyed when the privacy fence went up in the back so this one is a memory. 

There was one of my meetings at church last night that I had to miss. When Bob is more on the mend, my schedule will move back to “normal”.  It is going to be a long journey ...... living and learning and growing along the way for all of us.

The first upload for today is “your favorite book”. I read most of my books on the ipad. But this book is one I use often as you can tell from the wear and tear and stains. 

The word today is present. Today is a king in disguise, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us, Jean De La Bruyere. Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present, Ralph Waldo Emerson. This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it, Ralph Waldo Emerson. We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming, Johann von Goethe. The obscurest epoch is to-day, Robert Louis Stevenson. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment, Henry David Thoreau.  To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else, Emily Dickinson. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, Francis Bacon. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past, Henry David Thoreau.  ... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It is said that the present is pregnant with the future, Voltaire. 

The second upload is another of “your (my) choice”. This one is one of my daughter-in-law’s collections, an old elementary school desk. 

More to know about our city. The article called East Broad Street the “Dream Street” for movers and shakers, rich and powerful, by the end of the 19th century. Mansions were built most in good taste. State officials began meeting in the “new village” in 1816. At that time several hundred people lived along High Street. As the town grew the people of “good fortune or good luck” moved away from High Street to build houses of “frame or stone” along Front Street from Spring to Mound. There was a 30-foot deep gully in the area. People in those houses would enjoy views of the Scioto River. They could also “catch the westerly breezes that carried away the noise and odors of the village behind them”. That was the case until 1831 when the Ohio Canal appeared where Bicentennial Park is now located. Then the National Road also came into being. Columbus grew from 2,000 to 5,000. The people in the new beautiful homes realized that “nasty increase in traffic, noise and disruption”. In the 1840s pig, sheep and cattle were moved across the Broad Street bridge. The “movers and shakers” began to move. East Broad Street became more “attractive” as it continued on to Granville. At that time there was less traffic, noise and odor on the street at that time. Alfred Kelley was one of the people moving to East Broad Street. He purchased several acres of “swampy wetland east of Downtown”. He drained the wetland and built his home, “a Greek Revival mansion second only to the new Statehouse in size and grandeur”. At that time Franklin Park was a garden for the agricultural society, eventually became the fairgrounds, then a city park. A wealthy banker names William Deshler provided trees to line the street.  There was a “pattern was two lines of traffic flanked by trees and two access lanes on each side with two lines of trees along the curb”. Many of the mansions are still there but the arrangements of trees are gone. 

Pizza!!

Joy 

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