June 12, 2024 a thought for today, From to-morrow till to-morrow time goes a long journey. French Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was another of the “photographer’s choice" This fire hydrant is nearly hidden among all these plants. I like the color separations for the red and green and the other hues of colors in the background.

The next upload was “vehicle(s)”. Of course there are all sorts of vehicles on the highways and byways. This was my choice for this upload with that challenge title. 

The next upload for June 11 was “I work here....” This is where I am most of the time for work and play and education and observations. It is part of my little corner. 

Life today. I did just as I had planned with this “free” day. I have all I can get done at this point on the newsletter. I need input from two others as well as a series of some photos for the “photo page”. We haven’t done too much “notable” in this past months that has been “photo events”. I may put photos that are of a historic nature in this months issue. 

It has been an otherwise quiet and mostly uneventful day.  I needed a couple of photos that would be easier to find if I were out and about. So Sweet Pea and I took a short ride around the area to see what I could find that would fit the challenges. 

The weather is “nice” still on the cool side but they are predicting a striking raise in the temperature in the next few days. May approach a dangerous point so we should enjoy today. 

The first upload for today is “transport”. As seen in this image I am “transporting” my lunch and my best furry friend (who seems to be trying very hard to not look at the food). 

I enjoy having family stop by now and then. Andy had left his sunglasses the other day when he was here so he stopped by to retrieve them. 

I have added another form of adding plants to my hydroponic system. I am going to try air plants. I had a few years back but didn’t put much interest in them. The “interest” has been reborn for now. I also discovered that one of the plants I liked for the shape of its trunk is in poor shape, probably beyond repair. 

My next upload for today, “photographers choice”, is this green plant beginning its new life protected by the small bolder. Kind of looks like a plant under an outcropping on a mountain or hillside. 

The word today is free.   I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo.  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire.  He who is brave is free. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus.  The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle.  I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte.  Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Buddha. Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras.  Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. Charles Spurgeon.  A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Thomas Aquinas.  Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. Walt Whitman.  Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson.  By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. Angelus Silesius.  The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. Henry David Thoreau.  No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Euripides.  He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Saint Augustine.  Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. Thomas Carlyle.

The last upload for today is “I like to . . . ” I like to work/play/tend to my hydroponic/air plant house plant garden, along with read and crochet and “visit” my kids, grand kits and great grand kids. 

Article: Here is even more to ponder with science, nature and other wise. The article covers a subject about a life form that has experience even briefly different atmosphere and came back to grow in this one. The title is “A Sweetgum Tree From Space Takes Root In Wayne National Forest”. It is a “sweetgum that has literally been to space and back” and is called a Moon Tree. In 2022 the NASA and the US Forest Service worked together to plan this project. They gathered sweetgum saplings and other seedlings that “took an epic journey thousands of miles beyond the moon aboard the unmanned Orion spacecraft”. As a side note, the “Sweetgum trees (Liquidambar styraciflua) are native to southeast Ohio.” The “stellar” idea was mentioned by a US Forest Service Ranger in Athens, Ohio. Once the project was underway she began preparing “a prime spot for this special tree.” She was proud to declare that Ohio has a history to “aviation and aerospace exploration, including the Wright Brothers and John Glenn.” In the space prepared for the special tree “visitors are kindly asked to admire this Moon Tree respectfully. It’s got a protective setup with fencing and wire mesh to keep curious wildlife and maintenance activities from causing any damage”. There are other kinds of trees that have the Moon Tree experience. There is more information about the Moon Trees--it all started with the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. About 400 to 500 seeds of various trees were taken to the moon by a man who was a US Forest Service firefighter before becoming an astronaut. There is more information about Moon Trees on the NASA’s Moon Tree page. One interesting thing is there is one right here in Ohio.

I am going to make salmon patties for dinner. 

Joy

       in the tree tops