October 16, 2023 a thought for today, It is often better to go by a circuitous than by a direct path. Latin Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “black and white.” There are times I like using the black and white setting on the cameras rather than turning a color image to black and white in Photoshop. It’s fun to play with the different “creative settings” on the camera.

This has been an odd Monday. I generally do my virtual checks, email for myself and for church, facebook, and news headlines. Then on to the bulletin. Not this morning. I saw an ad on one of the facebook pages about something I will need to complete my plans for Christmas gifts so I went on Google searches to compare prices. While in that search, I found another item of interest and started on another Google search. Before I knew it it was mid morning and I needed to get to the bulletin. The minister for this week had sent me all I needed to complete the whole thing. I do a history on one of the hymns we would be singing each week. So I did more research on that subject for the bulletin. The hymn I was researching is “Kum ba Yah”. What I learned was interesting.  

A second upload for yesterday was “more fall colors”. I decided to use fallen leaves in this image for a  change as opposed to those still left on the trees. 

I also managed to get some cleaning done in the kitchen. That took up more time than I had expected.

Some lights have been coming on on the dashboard of my car so it needs attention. So Lowell is going to take it to Toyota for me late this afternoon. I hope they don’t have to keep it all week but I wouldn’t be surprised if they do. Sue has agreed to take me to the places I need to be this week. This is a busy one. 

So now that the day is fading I sill have a list to finish for today before I will get my dinner ready.

I had a third image for upload for yesterday it called for “knife, spoon or fork.” I chose to use a cooking utensil as opposed to table service for this one. So that is wasn’t all alone and feeling blue I used a red potato on its tongs. 

The word today is anyone. Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle.  Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup, Ludwig van Beethoven.  You can learn from anyone even your enemy, Ovid. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me, Thomas Huxley. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Leonardo da Vinci.  Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus.  Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens. May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! Saint Ignatius. Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. Saint Teresa of Avila.   How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. Athanasius.  

Today’s first upload is “stripes”. I didn’t go out today and the first thing I saw that had stripes was the flag sitting in the corner of my dining room. The lighting was good in that spot today too.

I like learning more and anything I can about the animal world especially those that touch our lives everyday. This article title caught my attention, “Dogs don’t see life through rose-colored glasses, nor in black and white.” It starts out telling about an aging dog names Samuel who has myopia and has a friend named Scotch who doesn’t see colors. The author of the story is not a vet but is an optometrist and explained the problems as “cones and rods”. It goes on to talk about how those react to ambient light and how it is absorbed or reflected. Color vision in animals and in humans develops through evolution and grows according to the needs of the species and their environment. As an example to the environment aspect, birds see ultraviolet light humans cannot. Birds need this ability for their natural behaviors as in “foraging and choice of mate. Insects share the ultraviolet advantage to help them with collection pollen. So wild animals can’t recognize the orange bibs of hunters. The vision of dogs is different. Since the eyes are located on the sides of the head “unlike humans.” So the dogs have a wider vision (250 to 289 degrees) but “less simultaneous vision.” I learned this makes the vision of movement “well developed throughout his visual field.” I also learned that the “central vision is actually six times weaker than ours.” There are other physical differences in the dogs eye that allow him/her to see better at night. Apparently that difference also makes the dog’s eye glow in the night. As for seeing color for dogs they “perceive only yellow-green and violet-blue. Colors are perceived paler, like pastels.” The article went on to mention that in the instance of infrared the animals feels that heat through his nose not his eyes. Cats eyes are similar to dogs except for the “color palette” which leans more toward violet and green, they are “essentially color-blind. They are also very short-sighted.......formidable at perceiving movement.” I was surprised to read that “Who knows what our color vision will be like 500 years from now, after we’ve been exposed to more and more electronic devices and artificial colors?” 

The other image for todays upload is “my choice”. My pets are always my best models. This is Sugar. She was a wonderful friend for thirteen years and didn’t mind posing for me especially when napping. 

One of the good things I have found on my new journey of building a new menu is stir fry and lumpas. Oh, I made beef and noodles with the homemade noodles and I now have two 2-cup meals in the freezer for quick meals in the future. 

Joy 

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