March 12, 2024 a thought for today, Who honours not age, is unworthy of it. German Proverb

The image for yesterday was “hanging”. This a part of our water chain, hanging on the roof gutter at the front porch. I wanted the blue sky as a back ground without the tops of houses in the image frame. So I only got two of the six cups.

The second photo yesterday was “birdhouse”. This is the image I captured in my
neighbors back yard. There are two of them in the yard. Both are attractive. I think I have used the other one in a different assignment in the past. 

The last upload for yesterday was “use your imagination”. The original is a photo of my crocus plant pushing its new blooms open to welcome spring. I used a motion filter around the plant hoping to add a little dreamy affect.

Life today. Yesterday Lowell and I had to make a trip to the Auto Title Agency to make some updates to Bob’s car information so that we can get on with putting it on the market. It is sometimes part of the process it takes to close out a probate process. After we were through there, Lowell took me Tee Jays for breakfast. It is always a sunny day when I can spend “me” time with one of my children.

For one of the photos I will offer in this blog there was an item in my neighbor’s yard that would suit the assignment. So I called them to let them know I would be in the yard for a few minutes. I am very lucky to live in a community of people that are helpful and look out for each other. I was sure they wouldn’t mind but I felt it was good manners to let them know first. 

The first image for today is “the colour blue”. I the best color blue there is is above us. I included the tree for an added view. 

This is one of the two weeks of the month that I don’t have some meetings at the church. They are relatively easy paced days so I am taking advantage of this one. Todays pick-and-choose agenda is getting a good start on the on going to do list. The calendar page of the newsletter is done now. I can sit and gaze out the window that sits beside my computer monitor at the coming spring sky and greenery. It feels good. Also sitting on my desk beside the computer is my “frameo” where I can see photos of my great grand children as they are sent to me and do a roll over stream all day long. It is a novel, unique, “new age” (technical) way of my feeling in a small way that I am seeing them all day long as their lives move on. The “frameo” and the virtual calls are a dream.

The rest of the afternoon is going to be picking and choosing from my ongoing“ on the back burner” list.

The second upload today is “night sky”. I am not normally up in the dark of night. However, I was up early this morning and with the time change the sky and shadows were “night-like”. So I captured the image. 

The word for today is beside.  In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree. Saint Teresa of Avila.  If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Abraham Lincoln. But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. Honore de Balzac. On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions. Saint Patrick.  This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. George Ripley.  Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. Amos Bronson Alcott.

The last of my assigned images for today is “my town”. This was taken earlier of our downtown skyline as the sun was going down. I like the touch of a local  neighborhood in the foreground.   

The article: In keeping up with the growth (and history at times) of our city I thought I would include this article. “They will forever alter Columbus’ skyline.  New or planned high-rises are the first in the city in more than two decades”. Recently there have been three new buildings at least 24 stories high. There is a fourth in the planning stage. One of the new ones is the Hilton Columbus Downtown. Another is the Greater Columbus Convention Center. One of the tallest to grace our city at present is the Wexner Medical Center which is in the top ten tallest in Columbus and the largest in Ohio. It is twenty-six stories tall. One note of interest is that it “includes enough steel to construct two Eiffel Towers, and twice as much concrete as Ohio Stadium.” There “work underway” on a building that will be a mixed use structure called the Merchant Building. This building will be 32 stories tall. It is being constructed on a “former” parking lot of the Downtown’s North Market. This building will be a hotel, offer office space, and a 350-space parking deck. There will be several recusants and bars. On the west side of the Scioto River next COSI there is a plan for a residential tower on top of a four-story parking garage. This building will offer a grocery store as well as office space and a hotel. The tallest buildings in Columbus before those mentioned above are: The Rhodes Tower, LeVeque Tower, The William Green, Huntington Center, Verne Riffe State Office Tower, One Nationwide Plaza, Franklin County Courthouse, AEP Building, 1 Riverside Plaza, Continental Plaza, and Three Nationwide Plaza.

I am trying to decide if it will be chili or tuna casserole for dinner tonight. 

Joy  

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