June 22, 2023 a thought for today, A smile confuses an approaching frown. Traditional Proverb

Yesterday the first image I uploaded “birds in flight”. I may have used this image for other photo a day uploads. I don’t get the opportunity to capture shots of birds in flight so I have to catch as catch can and use it when I need it. 

Yesterday we got a huge surprise....Mick was in town for a visit so we all went to dinner at O’Charley’s. It was great, we all caught up on each other’s lives along with a good dinner and happy times. It kind of made up for the dinner we missed on Father’s Day.

Before we left for O’Charley’s Lowell and Mick stopped here. Lowell loaned me a different laptop than the one he had left before. This one has much more memory and so I can put a lot of software on it. It is a back-up to my poor old standard PC which is slowly limping along.  

The second upload for yesterday was a “my choice”. I found this picnic table on a patch of grass on the side of the alley behind the post office. It must be for outdoor breaks. 

I got the printing done in good time today. Paul came in to work early so I had company in the church for a while before Patti joined us. 

Sue will be house/pet sitting for Tiffany for the next few days. It will feel a little on the lopsided side of things with her not here to chat and have dinner with. 

It looks like rain but to be on the “ready” side I recharged some batteries for the lawn care equipment. Brian will be here tomorrow or Saturday to mow for us. 

The first upload for today is “a single candle”. I don’t have to many candles around the house but I have this one, a few used birthday candles and one or two candles that run on batteries. 

The word for today is society. All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing...Edmund Burke.  I think the first duty of society is justice, Alexander Hamilton.  Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society, William Makepeace Thackeray. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime, Aristotle.  If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin, Charles Darwin.  Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Horace Mann. Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man, Jean-Jaques Rousseau. Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. Marquis de Sade.  I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society, Henry David Thoreau. Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish, Abraham Lincoln. Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense, Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

My second upload for today is another of the “my choice” images. This happens to be from my archives. I like the lines and point of interest in this one. 

I came across a bit about nature that I thought I would share. It is a description of how moths are important to the “ecosystem”. Moths and butterflies both belong to the family of Lepidoptera. As a matter of fact moths make up a larger division of that group, 15 times as many species. To be a little more scientific there are 17,500 butterfly species and 160,000 moth species. One of the reasons the butterfly is more noticeable is they appear during the day and moths mostly at night and they are busy more than we notice pollinating plants. The article mentioned that moths pollinate many of the same plants as butterflies do. Another service that they are noted for is to be a food for bats. Since bats use “sonar” to find their food as it flies in the air they easily find the moths at their work. Moths have several stages of life. The caterpillar stage is food for other predators’ mainly birds. Moths can be “showy”. They come in a rainbow of colors and patterns. Photographers can become “night owls” when in search of the myriad of colors and patterns of the moths.

It is going to be baked spaghetti for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                    maybe a new privacy fence is in order