February 7, 2024 a thought for today, A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. Chinese Proverb

One upload for yesterday was “starts with the letter C”. I had problems thinking of something that I had on hand that started with the letter C. I was thinking of all the photos I have so all kinds of clouds. 

The next photo upload for yesterday was “macro, not a close up”(Close-up photography takes a subject  and zooms in on it, Macro and micro photography take this concept a step further. Macro can achieve at least a 1:1 magnification).This “subject” is a tiny teddy bear statuette, about an inch in over all height. 

The third photo yesterday was “new”. The newest thing I had on hand was a pair house slippers I got for Christmas. They haven’t been worn yet so they are still very new. 

Life today. What a day. I was in an awful mood from the moment my feet touched the floor this morning. It’s a good thing Sue wasn’t up and about or any others were not here either. I could hardly stand myself. So I got busy on computer things that needed to be done. This is Wednesday and I still didn’t have the information I need to finish the bulletin. 

I worked on trying to get more of a start on the annual report but that really didn’t go well either. Around eleven or so I decided that Sweet Pea and I needed to go out for a ride and then pick up some food. We went to the car with Sweet Pea bouncing and anxious to get in the car. Well...the car didn’t start. So after several attempts I came in and called AAA. It took them about half an hour to get here. After some testing with a hand held electronic thingy and a look at the date on the battery it was determined it was indeed the problem was the battery. The date stamped on it was 2017. So a new battery was installed.

Today’s first upload is “starts with the letter E”. What better than a pair of gentle forgiving and loving eyes than these. 

After the battery was in and I came in from paying for the battery I checked my email. The information I needed for the bulletin was there. So I spent the next hour finishing that and emailing it to people who need it.

Next I worked on making a quick decision for what my photos of the day would be. It took a few minutes to set them up and shoot. Then to the darkroom (Photoshop). With that done, I got back to the research I needed for the article part of this letter. By this time it was into mid afternoon with some loose ends to tie up and uploads before dinner time. 

I had taken meat out of the freezer last night planning to make Sweet Peas special meatball treat today. I’m afraid that will be put on hold for tomorrow after the Thursday printing. 

The next upload is “stairs”. This is my patio steps that are in for a good renewal this spring/summer.  

The word today is accept.   Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius.  Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Voltaire.  The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri Frederic Amiel.  The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept. Thucydides.  I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman.  If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend. Saint Augustine.  One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles.  We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. Walt Whitman.  Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  

The last photo upload for today is “grey”. I have two cars in my driveway and both of them are grey in color so I decided to use one of them as my prop for this image. 

This article title caught my attention, “The Most Unusual Building in Columbus”. I have always been attracted to this building and its unique design and features. It seems appropriate to me, being from a family of firefighters that such a structure should be part of their history too. In the beginning of the article it described that the building “sits awkwardly beside a raised railroad track, hidden from view by anyone approaching from the West.....but wasn’t always so”. It was questioned is it Japanese or Art Nouveau. It was built in 1895. At that time it was called the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad depot. Railroads and architects admired it. The pagoda tower was a landmark. Much of the structure has the Japanese look. However, at the time it was constructed the tower was more Art Nouveau in part because it was the time in history for this style. On the inside there are cupids like 18th century to 19th century in the art community. Gas lighting fixtures are Victorian in nature. The article suggests that much of the interior designs were not done well. In 1911 the railroad tracks around the building were “elevated almost 20 feet and Broad street dropped 4 feet”. These adjustments were made to “improve the flow of traffic” since automobile were coming into the scene. The building was “dwarfed by the trestle supporting the tracks, and barely half of the tower cleared the level of the tracks”. In time the railroad depot service was shifted to the Union Station. The building’s use was “repurposed into an office building”. The Volunteers of America was once housed there. In 1973 it “made it onto the National Register of Historic Places”. In 2007 the International Association of Fire Fighters purchased the building. They were able to receive a grant to renovate the building. There were a couple of fires inside the building in 1910 and in 1975. Repairs after the later fire resulted in better lighting and insulation and other changes to some of the art detail. Other structures of that era have been demolished and replaced, some by parking lots.

This is another night of a “surprise” from the freezer for dinner.

Joy

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