February 23, 2024 a thought for today, It is better to turn back than go astray. German Proverb

A first photo upload for yesterday was “industrial”. We had another one earlier this month. This one is also an “industrial” image close to my home. 

The next upload for yesterday was “starts with the letter z”. There aren’t to many choices for this letter of the alphabet but zipper is a perfect one. 

The third and last upload image for yesterday was “a beautiful sight”. This is an image of a city park close to my home. It’s always a beautiful sight with a city forest of trees with other lines and shapes joining in the sight. 

Life today. This has been another of those “whirl wind” days for me. I received  the information I need for the special bulletin due in ten days. So before I got ready to leave for church I got a bit of a start on it. 

Yesterday afternoon I called Dorothy to remind her of working on the newsletter. There was no answer so I left a message. She must not have gotten the message because she wasn’t there today. I did the finishing touches on the newsletter myself. So it took about twice as long to do it. The biggest thing is I missed her. I look forward to our once a month couple of hours together. We catch up on each others lives. I am going to call her to make sure she is all right. 

My first upload for today is “starts with the letter G”. A green light seems close at hand and fit the “assignment”.

I dropped the newsletter off at the post office and then drove around a little to find some of the photos I need for today.  

Once I got settled in at home I started on this letter then veered off to look at the special bulletin again. So I got sidetracked and took up more time than I wanted to. I have to tie up things I want to get done in this day and start up again on the bulletin tomorrow. 

The next upload for today is “centered”. This is also a “leading line” style. I noticed the light fog at the end of my block and adjusted the camera lens so that was centered in the frame. 

The word today is anxious.  Love is full of anxious fears. Ovid.  Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day. Davy Crockett.  True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Benjamin Disraeli.  Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems, Epictetus.  Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths, C. H. Spurgeon.  My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened, Michel de Montaigne. 

The last image for today is “movement”. One that popped into my head as I was driving home from church was the motion of traffic. 

This article is something I hadn’t read about so I’m exploring. I am amazed with all the things that come up to solve problems. Lets explore this one. It’s about flowers grown in a floating manner and the way they can help stem pollution. It is written by a Doctoral Associate in Environment. In an experiment using an “inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52% more phosphorus and 36% more nitrogen.” The article added that the cut flowers they use “can generate income via the multibillion-dollar floral market”. They used different species of flowers to see which worked best for the pollution. They found that giant marigolds “stood out” as the most successful. Further in the article it mentioned that pollution is caused in “large part by runoff from farms, urban lawns and even septic tanks”. When it rains the excess chemicals wash into lakes and rivers. This feeds algae which lowers the oxygen in the water causing “dead zones”. That leads to the death of aquatic life. So this leads to the experiments with this type of floating farm. In some of the early experiments floating rafts were used. As the project progressed the hope was that “not only that the flowers would pay for themselves, but that they could provide jobs.” They used “inexpensive polyethylene foam.....that mirrored water conditions of nearby polluted waterways.” They transplanted seedlings to the mats. After about 12 weeks they tested the water quality and noted improvements. There is still some experimenting with the giant marigolds in particular to determine if their extra roots are of a notable point in their use. So finding other plants with this type root system would be beneficial. 

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