April 5, 2024  thought for today, With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. Jewish Proverb

The first photo up load for yesterday was “something yellow”. I was at church doing the printing for the week. I glanced up and noticed that the wall was yellow and that is the color that I noted when I checked my photo a day list for today. So naturally I shot it and here it is. 

The second upload for yesterday was “fog and mist”. You can’t predict that you will have the weather condition on the day that you need it. You have to think ahead for possible purposes for all that you see and observe when you see and observe them. This one was one of those. I was up early enough to find that the weather was just right so I made the image and saved it to the archives for today or whatever day.

The third and last image for today is “cereal”. I don’t have cereal in the house right now, except for oats. So, while I was at church I went to our food pantry stock and shot some images of our cereal shelf. 

Life today. Our church meeting last night was pretty heavy with problem-type discussions and decisions. They were handled pretty much with Christian feeling and common sense. 

The first upload for today is “anything macro”. Daffodils are bountiful right now and allow me to adorn the dining table with fresh cuttings every day. I use them often for props. This one has aged for a couple of days, it is showing the beginning ravages of time. Time and age can be beautiful too often showing things you never knew were there.  

This was another of the days for a shot for Sweet Pea. I’m weak in the area of facing tension-causing-events alone. Handling a crippled beloved pet that is receiving treatments is one of those for me. I like to have someone I trust and count on with me. One person I had asked for for todays visit had another engagement come up at the last minute. I had some tense moments. So Tami stepped in, she and Andy picked us, Sweet Pea and me, up and “got us to the ‘vet’ on time.”

The next upload for today is “next to you (me)”. This is the typical view of what is to my right as I work on the computer. I have iced tea (and water in my OSU mug), I see photos of my great grandchildren and their daily living on the frameo as they scroll by on the screen. I have my window to the world (at least to the part that is my neighbors yard) and weather happenings when I rest my eyes. My mouse and keyboard along with my special mouse pad are in the image.

Seasonal maintenance situations and repairs are happening more frequently these last few days. It is another sign of spring time. There are high-pressure-outside-house-cleaning going on, roofs being reshingled, garden tours being planned, water hoses being reattached after winter storage, lawn chairs being taken out of garages, as well as details needing heavy duty equipment, all of this and more as well as blossoms and blooms appearing. 

I think I will forgo a trip to McDonald/White Castle/Wendys (the closest fast foods to me) for a grilled cheese and rice and store bought iced tea for lunch today. The weather is perfect today for a short trip outdoors but I have some things I need to get done before the day comes to a close. 

Another upload for today is “something blue”. For this one I couldn’t think of something better than the gorgeous blue sky that we have today. 

The word today is clothes. I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreas.  Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn.  When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus.  It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Benjamin Franklin.   Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. Carl Friedrich Gauss.   Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. Leonardo da Vinci.  Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds. George Washington. We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Henry David Thoreau. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. William Hazlitt. Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Henry Ward Beecher.  Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. Philibert Joseph Roux.  When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. Lord Chesterfield. Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. Confucius.  

This is another of the days that I have a fourth photo a day upload. This one is “wildlife”. I don’t see to many “wild” life. It seems that most city “wildlife” aren’t really what I picture as “wild”. But here are some of the most prominent in our part of the city. 

Article: Does old become new again? This could be a big development not only for Columbus but for many places in the country/world. The modern (or not really so modern after all*) mode of transportation. The article title is “Citywide Bike Plan, Vision for Downtown Streets Both Starting to Take Shape”. I learned from the article that we have a city “Mobility and Parking Division” in Columbus. The administrator proposed the question that the plan now being considered is that “ideally, over time, how can we build out a safe, connected network throughout the entire city?” The bike lanes could be on-street bike lanes protected from car traffic, or shared with paths on a side of the road that is separated from traffic by a curb and grass. There is also work on several “bike and pedestrian projects” including lanes on East Broad Street. There is a plan called Capital Trail of paths and protected bike lanes on Broad Street to connect “most popular “greenways; the Scioto Trail and the Alum Creek Trail”. The article mentioned that there is another proposed plan called the Capital Line connecting bike and pedestrian loop including Gay, Fourth and Rich Streets. Eventually these will be several connectors to Downtown’s adjacent neighborhoods. These plans will require “overlapping and aligning” with bus transit lines and other bike and pedestrian paths. 

*(from Google search) Karl von Drais invented his Laufmaschine in 1817 and patented this design in 1818, which was the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine. It was initially manufactured in Germany and France. ......... During World War I, bicycles play a valuable role as the French, British and Germans deploy bicycle regiments and battalions. (not to mention the health benefits and savings on fuel costs.)

Pizza from the freezer for dinner. 

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