November 7, 2023 a thought for today, Curses are like chickens, they always come home. Traditional Proverb

One of the upload for the 6th was “trees.” This is a good time of year for that photo subject. This is a line of the tops of trees as seen as I drive down my street. 

The next photo for yesterday was” agriculture.” This one is from my archives and was taken as I drove on one of my trips to Mt. Sterling. A good example of the Ohio country side. 

My next shot for yesterday is “a street photograph.” As I stopped at a traffic light as I was coming out of the shopping center and snapped this image.

Life today: This is tuning out to be one of those days when family concerns are high on the thoughts list. One of my grand children living a distance away is having a serious health issue. So I am waiting every minute to hear what is being decided to fix the problem. There is also a less serious issue for the moment for my sister. She is having a test that takes most of the day to find the next step to fixing one of her health situations. So my focus is not in a perfectly clear mode for computer and photo work

I did get my voting obligation and privilege out of the way this morning. I didn’t go to the polling station until around nine o’clock in hopes the people voting before work would be on their way. They may have been “on their way” but other people must have had the same idea as I because the parking spaces were nearly full. I was mainly concerned with three of the issues on the ballot. I cast my vote the way I believed to be for the best out come of my community and holding with my ethical and honorable beliefs. 

Today my first photo upload was “fave shoes.” My favorite are the ones I wear every day around the house. They are my cosy house slippers. I am not of the nature to go barefoot even around the house when I can help it. These shoes are the next best thing. 

Since I was in the right general area for some of the photo ideas I need for today I decided to take a little time to shoot some of those images. I found several that are possibles and will decide once in the darkroom (Photoshop). I picked Sweet Pea up as I came by the house to go with me to finish finding a couple of more photos. 

The weather is one thing that is on the up side today. The sun is shining and the temperature is palatable for the season. This with one or two snow falls would be ideal for winter in my estimation. 

Once I was home I got the bulletin finished, sent for review and envelopes printed (no inserts for this week). Then I worked on my annual Christmas calendar project. For some reason in the last day or two I have managed to create a lengthy todo list for myself. 

The second photo for today is “wildlife.” This is one of the most prominent species of wildlife here in the city, at least in our city and in my neighborhood. If appears he/she is looking for food or for groceries to store for winter. 

The word today is curiosity.  Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected, John Locke.  The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality, Edmund Burke.  The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity, Edmund Burke. It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent, Cicero.  Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I, Robert Browning.  Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answer,  Voltaire.  Mere curiosity adds wings to every step, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety, Joseph Joubert.  The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled, Plutarch.  There are different kinds of curiosity; one of interest, which causes us to learn that which would be useful to us; and the other of pride, which springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant, François de la Rochefoucauld.   The over curious are not over wise, Philip Massinger.   Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment, Charles Lamb. 

The third and last photo for today is “majestic.” We don’t have majestic statue work close by my home so I looking for the most majestic sight we have in our daily adventures in this area of town. We have some beautiful and trees that have seen all kinds of weather and years of time.

Interesting. A history about the formations in nature and this one not far from Columbus. This article is about rocks and some unique formations they possess. They can be found in a place called Metzger Preserve not far from Deer Creek. I read that there is a “band” of the American Indian tribe of Shawnees called the Pekowi. This is where Pickaway County got its name.  “Until nearly 1800 “the Shawnee and other Native Americans reigned over the wildlands of the Ohio country.” Tecumseh was one of the Shawnee and was born in 1786 in what is now Pickaway County when it was a forest bordered on the Scioto River. It is known as the Pickaway Plains. The forest and prairie have lost its “wildnness.”  In the 1770s a Christian missionary, David Jones, arrived in the region. The immigrants of the time and some who followed him wanted the timber. A lumber mill, near Williamsport, came into being in 1812. As more and more people used the lumber the “forest” was “largely cleared.” Soon a man called John Deere, fled from Vermont to Illinois to “dodge bankruptcy charges.” In 1837 he “launched” a self-scouring steel plow. This invention led to changing the natural landscape of the Midwest. One of the descriptions of the land was “scattered shards of former habitats.” In 2002 the Pickaway County Park District was established. In 2017 a levy allowed funding for the park. They bought the Metzger Preserve along Deer Creek. I learned from the article that Deer Creek is “one of central Ohio’s (and) finest streams.” After that it was discovered that here the geological history of the area can be studied. That history “is far older than the region’s human history.” The author of this article and an OSU profession went to the Metzger Preserve to take a look rocks. The rocks in question are “bizarre round rock formations that look like oversized bowling balls. Concretions were formed by a buildup of minerals congealing around a nucleus such as a fossil, bone fragment or crystal” that dates back to the “Devonian” period which is a time of Paleozoic Era beginning about 419 million years ago. Some of these formation were thought to be dinosaur eggs or “flotsam left by extraterrestrials.” These formations at the Preserve are “embedded in a deposit of Ohio Shale.” Deer Creek eroded into the shale bank over time “liberating numerous concretions.” Some say some of the formations are described to look like “castoff cannonballs.” Some say others resemble “scores of turtle shells jutting from the water.”One of the specimens measures eight feet in diameter. The best view of these rocks would be when the water level is low.

Something saved in the freezer or left overs will be for dinner tonight. 

Joy                                            waiting for work