May 17, 2024 a thought for today, To whiten ivory with dye is to spoil nature by art. Latin Proverb

 One of my entries for yesterday was “group of ....” This group of trees has interested me every time a pass which is at least once a week. So I thought I would take today’s assignment to show them off.

My next choice of upload for yesterday was this image of “street signs”.
This one is an easy one because there are street signs all over the place. You can’t go outside in the city without seeing a plethora of street signs. 

My last upload for yesterday was “silly”. Here is my favorite model as she is truly at the top sensation of comfort laying on her back with all four legs askew and so relaxed to fall in any way that gravity took charge. 

Life today. This has been “one of those days”. My trash wasn’t put out by the curb last night as is the “rule” here. It is a large receptacle. I have difficulty in getting down the driveway and over the hump. So usually one of my neighbors is so kind to do it for me. I have no problem brining it back up once it’s empty. So I called Lowell to see if he was leaving for work early this morning and could stop by to do it for me. In the meantime my neighbor did come over to get it around 5:30 this morning. I had been awake since 4:00 thinking about it.....the story of a “worrywart”.

The cleaning lady changed dates from next week to today. Sweet Pea was scheduled to get one of her treatments/shots today. I asked Sue if she would be here for about 20 minutes while to the housekeepers were here so I could take Sweet Pea for her appointment. While the housekeepers were getting started Sue left saying that she had a phone call and had to run an errand. So I didn’t know if I should leave the house and leave the cleaning people. I didn’t have much of a choice so I went to the vets office. We were back in about 30 minutes. All went well. 

My first upload for today is “midday”. Actually this would fit a description of more than midday in the spring, summer and fall when the green leaves frame most views in my neighborhood. 

Next, I received the information for next weeks bulletin. I was excited that it was early so it would be a breeze to get completed on or before Monday. When I tried to open the file, I found that it was in a format I could not open without downloading new software, which I don’t particularly like to do. So I sent a text to see if the information can be resent as a  pdf or Microsoft Word file. I am waiting to see if that happens. 

Since I put off doing the laundry yesterday I got that started after the cleaning ladies left. Maybe the rest of the day will be smooth. Maybe I will even have sometime to work on the newsletter.

The second photo-a-day upload for today is “crayons”. I had a bag of crayons in the trunk of my car for sometime now. I think I used them at Christmas time as part of my gifts to the kids in my family. It’s a wonder then weren’t all melted but they were in good shape. 

The word today is everywhere. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya. The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. Empedocles.  Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Abraham Lincoln.  If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle.  May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting! Charles Spurgeon.  They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. Thomas More.  A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. Marcus Valerius Martial.  Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. Sophocles.  Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. Henri Frederic Amiel.  

My last upload for today is “city skyline”. Say hello to Columbus Ohio. This was taken as the sun was going down so there is a bit of a glow in some of the windows. In the foreground there are a few residences in the part of Columbus called Franklinton.  

Article: This article is about a beautiful park near by. We had one family wedding in this park. There is an oriental garden there that was closed for maintenance when we were there for the wedding. I have not had the chance to visit yet. Apparently they are adding something new, as most places of interest do from time to time. This is something on the unusual side....a Giant World of ‘Big Bug’ at Dawes Arboretum. These ‘bugs’ are larger than life. In a walk through the park you many encounter a 25-foot-long praying mantis or a dragon fly with a “wingspan wider than your car!” The article also offered a bit of history about the park. In 1929 the Arboretum was ‘born’. Benman and Bertie Dawes had a “passion for nature and a vision for environmental education”. The park is 2,000 acres of “a rich tapestry of forests, prairies, and wetlands, not to mention a living library of over 5,000 types of trees and plants.”  This newest exhibit is a creation of sculptures make of cedar, locust and willow. These ‘insects’ for been seen in the New York Botanical Gardens and at the Disney’s EPCOT  International Flower & Garden Festival. The article mentioned that this is the biggest ‘installation’ to visit the park so far. The ‘insects’ have been placed and spaced to fit into the landscape. There are ten different sculptures. As mentioned there is a praying mantis and a dragon fly. To accompany them there is a spider, dangling from a web, a lady bug and a grasshopper. The article promotes that “it’s a chance to engage with nature and art in a whole new way”. This exhibit will begin at Dawes Arboretum on Memorial Day. For more information check out the  website at dawesarb.org.

Pizza night here at my house tonight.....! 

Joy

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