March 4, 2024 a thought for today, Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies. German Proverb
One of the photo a day uploads for yesterday was “home”. This is my cozy front porch with Sweet Pea enjoying her daily surveying of the front of her property.
all of the “filters” I have on my smart phone camera so I was able to play with them for this assignment.
The next upload for yesterday was “old”. This was one of my mother’s favorite cook books. I have hung onto it for many years. I’m afraid it has been so well used it is falling apart.
Life today. A typical Monday. It started off with a rush of odds and ends involving catch up on this week’s bulletin and on the annual report. I also finished the last twenty-five special bulletins for tomorrows service. I have the report done up to one major point. I have one “free” day this week to finish it before Thursday morning or it will go as is. That depends on one person. I worked on the weekly bulletin to the point of pastor input. That came about an hour ago so it was put to the side of my desk until tomorrow morning. I have started two other projects that I want finished by the end of the day.
The first upload for today is “self portrait”. Well, self portrait is my least exciting photo shoot. But it is what it is. I’ll have to admit I had to use Photoshop to get rid of some of the wrinkles.
I felt a little over whelmed so Sweet Pea and I took a break for a drive to McDonalds and a photo hunt. I need a photo of a daffodil for today. I didn’t find any open yet this near “spring”. Many coming up but not quite ready. I found one in my back yard with a very tight pod that will open in a few days if left alone. But I got over anxious. I plucked it by its stem and put it in hot water and in the sun hoping I could force it open....it didn’t (yet) so I will use one from the archives. Another photo of the day was a selfie....yuck. But I played around.....not completely happy but I will use it.
We are having a gorgeous day weather wise. The sun is bright and the temperature is decent.
The nest upload for today is “daffodil”. That was a Keyston cop-type excursion. It is a little too early for daffodils’ to be blooming in our area right now. But, nonetheless Sweet Pea and I went on a drive to try to find an early riser. No luck. I had one in the back yard that was on a thin stem and still tightly in a pod shell. I plucked it off, brought it in the house, put it in hot water and placed it in the sun hoping it would pop out. It didn’t so this one is from my archives.The word today is ask. Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. Henry David Thoreau. Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare. Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced. Marquis de Sade. Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. St. Jerome. Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. Charles Spurgeon. If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. Horace Mann. One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson. Ask me not what I have, but what I am. Heinrich Heine.
The last image upload for today is “anything maple syrup”. I pulled a waffle from the freezer and poured on some “maple syrup” on it for this photo shoot.The title sounded interesting so I picked it before I read it yet. I don’t know if I missed something in my history classes or if this was top secret.....”Did President Lincoln's body spend a night below a High Street restaurant?” After President Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 there was a funeral train called the “The Lincoln Special.” There were thirteen stops for mourners to pay respects. Columbus was one of the stops. After that trip there was a rumor that Mr. Lincoln’s body was stored in the basement of a High Street after the train arrived in Columbus on April 29. It turns out the body did not stay anywhere in Columbus. One of the local funeral parlors was “charged with the “final arrangements” for Lincoln’s arrival, but it is not clear exactly what those consisted of”. One of the undertakers was told to make sure the president looked presentable to the thousands of onlookers who visited his casket at the Ohio Statehouse.” He was supposed “to clean the dust that gathered on Lincoln’s face”. Apparently the trip caused dust to be stirred up and each night of the trip the body was cleaned to remove the collection of dust. At the stops the casket was put on a frame covered in lilacs. The weight crushed the flowers causing “sweet smells ”to be “released” which “masked” the odor of the body. At the stop in Columbus “businesses and households in Columbus draped their buildings and homes in black as a way to participate in the funeral. A procession of citizens marched along with the remains from Union Station to the Ohio Statehouse. In preparing for this article it was discovered that a cabinet maker here who built caskets “did play a role”. He provided ice to “control the decaying”. In further explanation of how the body was prepared, it “was embalmed, but the science of it was new”. But it seemed “further treatments were needed to preserve the body.”
I think I will have Welsh Rarebit for dinner.
Joy
close up view of one of the infamous orange barrels
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