July 20, 2023 a thought for today, The house completed, possession defeated. Italian Proverb

One upload for July 19 was “my choice”. This is one of my best models, especially when she is resting. Normally she prefers not to have a camera directed at her. 

We have a new alarm system at the church and I have been worried about maybe setting it off when I tried to enter the building this morning. I waited until Patti would be there but got there a little earlier than that. After waiting for a few minutes I decided to try it. It was a piece of cake and not worth the new gray hairs and stress. I got both the bulletin and the newsletter done with only two paper jams. Then made the “rounds” dropping off bulletins and a copy of the newsletter on the downstairs bulletin board. 

I had to make a couple of stops on the way home. I picked up Sweet Pea’s med. Then to Kroger for one of my prescriptions. Then “had to stop” for brunch pick up for Bob and me. 

A second upload for yesterday was “x is for....”. There are not many suggestions for this alpha shot. I happened to be at the church and near the xerox machine so there was my prop.

Once at home it was back to work. I needed to do a couple of research areas in Google then I got the laundry started. Before getting back to the laundry, a little more on the computer and a quick drink of water for the house plants outside on the patio. 

The temperatures are forcing shut windows and the AC operating. We are supposed to get a little rain tonight and some cooler temperature along with it. 

Tomorrow will be finishing the newsletter and then a badly needed hair cut for me. It will feel good to not have to worry about a messy hair-do for a while. 

The first upload for today is “j is for....”. I used a part of myself as the model for this shot since I am a J....Joy. 

The word for today is age. The mind of man, his brain, and nerves, are a truer index of his age than the calendar... Percy Bysshe Shelley.  A long-expected guest, whose arrival always astonishes - Old age, Charles Searle. Then autumn comes, with its first flush of youth gone, but ripe and mellow, midway in time between youth and age, with sprinkled grey showing on the temples, Ovid. The surest sign of age is loneliness. While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot be old, whatever his years may number. A. Bronson Alcott.  Tis Education forms the common mind, Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd, Alexander Pope. Age is opportunity no less, than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away. The sky is filled by the stars invisible by the day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still, Johann Von Goethe. When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age, Victor Hugo.  We turn not older with years but newer every day, Emily Dickinson.  A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality, Pindar. Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many, Plato.  Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired, Plautus. The worst old age is that of the mind, William Hazlitt. They that have lived a single day have lived an age. Jean de la Bruyere.  Few people know how to be old, Francois de la Rochefoucauld.  

The second upload for today is “my choice”. I may have used the shot in a past upload that I shared. It is one of the cups in the rain chain on my front porch. I like the DOF and the lines and patterns.

I didn’t find much in the news today so I chose this article about some places to visit in and around Columbus. According to the article there are some parks, museums, and sports areas that are not seen much and may be of some interest. Of course we have the “world-class Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.....German Village and the Short North district”. Some others less known about are mentioned in this article. In Delaware there is the  Hidden Valley Golf Course. With par 3 holes and one par 4, it is said to be “a great course to learn the game or for older folks to stay active as most users don’t use electric carts”. Apparently it is the only course like it in Central Ohio. Next on the list of “hidden” places to see is Big Darby Headwaters Nature Preserve. There are about 1,000 acres of wetlands and stream side forests. Not many people know about the spot in nature. In 2011 efforts were made to “restore and recreate the natural flow of the headwaters of Big Darby Creek”. There is an overlook at the site of the restoration. There is another site that is “technically closed to the public” where visitors stop by anyway. It is “The Nature Conservancy ....., along Little Darby Creek off State Route 29, west of West Jefferson”. It covers 94 acres of woodland in Madison County. It is “richly endowed and largely untouched even by deer and invasive species”. Another area to visit is the Ohio Railway Museum in Worthington, it is said to have “an industrial feel”. The Inside is done with an old train station feel. There are renovated street cars and “intenurbans that once traveled from downtown Columbus and beyond up and down the middle of Route 23". There is an Early Television Museum in Hilliard. There are models of television receiver sets from the “dawn of the era”. According to the article in 1947 there were 200,000 Americans who owned TVs. By 1953 there were somewhere around 13 million. The article’s description is “For those interested in electricity’s ability to channel  moving pictures through the air, this is a must visit”.Another place to take visitors is called Ferris-Wright Park in Dublin. Here are highlights of connections to original inhabitants. To be seen are earthworks and a 1880s build Ferris Farmhouse which was home to settlers and earlier  “indigenous peoples”. The Hopewell culture, who led to changes and the development of modern Native American tribes, are represented. Another tribe represented in the area is the Wyandot Nation. The last of the places not seen much in our community is the Tranquility Salt Cave in Columbus on Dillmont Drive. The facility is lined with 10,000 pounds of Himalayan rock salt boulders. Salt therapy can be provided here. According to the Salt Therapy Association, the benefits of salt therapy were first discovered in 1843 in Poland, where workers in underground salt mines suffered fewer respiratory issues. 

I had a third upload for today, it is “pink”. I happened to be separating the laundry and low and behold there was my favorite pink shirt all ready and waiting for me and my camera. 

I think we will have baked Tilapia for dinner with potato pancakes. 

Joy 

 no need for an orange cone?