March 16, 2024 a thought for today, You must cut your coat according to your cloth. Irish Proverb

One of the photo a day uploads for the 15th was “favourite beverage”. My favorite now is far and away iced tea. Once upon a time it was hot chocolate. And for a short time it was decafe coffee. Time goes by, tastes, like all else, change.  

The second upload for the 15th was “text”. Instead of photographing something from a text book, magazine or newspaper I chose a group of street signs of several sorts. 

A third image for today is “broken”. I passed a car coming down the street that had some dings and a crashed in fender but I didn’t have time to shoot it as I was steering the car. So I decided to capture an image of something a car similar to the one I saw may have encountered. 

Yesterday was one of the four days of each month that I had a fourth image to upload. This assignment was entitled “books”. I’m not among the fortunate who have an in-home “library”. I have a book case with three shelves that serves as a catch-all of nicknacks and such as well as a dozen or so books that live on on those shelves day by day. Instead of “hard copy” books I use ebooks and Google, as a modern encyclopedia. So you may have seen some of these books in past photo uploads. 

Life today. I don’t have too much on the agenda again today. I got an early start, early for Saturday. I wanted to make a couple of extra stops before we went to Kroger for the grocery pick up. I stopped at the post office. Then went to take a look at the short back road behind the West High School Stadium to see if it would fit one of the uploads I want for today. There is another spot on the way to the store that may work for that photo image. After that stop we made it to Kroger for the pickup. I decided to stop at the bank then swing by the park for another photo. 

When Sweet Pea and I got home Tami, Andy and Gideon were here. So I got to spend sometime with them. They helped me get some things to storage in the basement and helped Sue with some decorations she had on the front door. 

Tami had put a few of the groceries up which left just a few for me to put away. 

My first photo upload for today is “looking up”. I caused Sweet Pea to be bored as I busied myself by placing the car under a tree here and there whose branches over shadowed the street and began shooting upward several times on our way home from an errand. 

As I was looking in the yard for springs signs I saw that our hyacinth is in full bloom today. I also noticed that my lenten rose is in full bloom but there is something attacking it. I think I will go out and try some of my homemade “insecticide" on it to see if that helps. The solution is water with hot pepper, garlic, onion, mint and soap. It’s worked several times before for me on other plants.  The sun is out bright and warm. The air is still on the cool side but things are looking up for the coming spring season.

The next image I uploaded for today’s suggested assignment was “favourite pie”. I don’t buy or make pies often, actually very seldom. So I tried to think how I could accomplish this image. White Castle offers pies and cakes on a stick. So we, Sweep Pea and I, stopped at While Castle on the way home from the store so I could get one of those tasty morsels. However I forgot how small in size they are, but alas, it had to suffice. This one was “Gooey Buttercake on a stick”. It is cut in the shape of a pie so that helped too. 

The word today is blind. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant.  In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal. As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. Isaac Newton.  Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. The Holy Bible (John 9:25).  The question is not what you look at—but how you look and whether you see. Henry David Thoreau.  They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness. John Milton.  It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. John Lyly.  The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius Syrus.  As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. Julius Caesar.  What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue. Jewish Proverb.  It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. Voltaire.  If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas Fuller.  Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Francis Bacon.  Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. Sophocles. 

The last upload for todays photos is “a back road”. The closest I could find in my neighborhood that would fit that description was a short “road” behind the high school football stadium. There is one other in active thinking process today. This one is another short street at the edge of a nearby failing shopping mall.   

Article: Here is another bit of history and a once upon time icon in Columbus. The Kahiki was a place to visit at least once here in our city. It was a Polynesian-themed eatery that was quite popular in the 50s and 60s. It was a structure of many exotic designs. In visiting there there was a feeling of being somewhere in the islands. One of the major “ornaments” was a pair of 16-foot tall “moai” heads that “guarded” the entrance doors. The Kahiki Supper Club adorned a part of our city from 1961 until 2000. One of the moai heads was rescued and is located on a patio in Powell Ohio. After these many years it is only a “skeleton of rebar”.  The manager of another Tiki Lounge in Powell owns the statue. He plans to host a fund-raiser on April 27 to restore the sculpture. It is estimated that is will cost around $15,000 to $20,000.  At the event there will be tropical food and drinks “(some revived from the Kahiki's own menu)”.There will be performances of Polynesian dancers and “tiki memorabilia” available. To repair the statue welders, masons and sculptures and painters will be employed. It is hoped that there will be enough money raised to restore other items from the old restaurant. The original Maui Heads at the Kahiki were created by Columbus artist Philip E. Kientz, who also created Mr. Tree at Lazarus. These sculptures were  made with a shell of rebar and iron mesh, a body of concrete and surface of textured stucco.

I am having left over chili for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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