June 24, 2024 a thought for today, All things change, and we change with them. Latin Proverb

 

My first upload for yesterday was “I once...” was young and carefree (of course I didn't shoot this photo but I scanned it....the original is more than eighty years old). Me and my Scotty dog....my very first furry friend....he apparently wasn’t interested in the Easter Basket.

The next upload yesterday was “upside down”. I don’t know if the limb was once
totally upright then took a downward slope. Whatever the circumstance it has character. 

The last upload challenge for yesterday was “this motivates me”. More like gives me peace and hope. 

Life today. I had a visit with two of my great grandchildren yesterday. They were in town expecting a visit with their dad also. However, due to a problem that part of the plans were changed. We spent about an hour here at the house then Lowell took us to dinner at York. They had not visited York before so the walking through to place your order then having the entree delivered to the table was a little different experience for them. 

It’s been pretty much a “normal” Monday here at my house. Brian called to see if I wanted the lawn mowed. Since it is a little cooler today and supposed to rain some more during the week I told him to go ahead with it today. 

Sue is spending the day with the kids again this Monday. She will probably be with them most of the week. 

My first upload for today is “sunglasses”. I have a extra pair, one that I keep in my car and another that someone left a while back as they were leaving. 

My chest freezer is in need of defrosting. I just didn’t have the time to tackle that today so I decided just to chip away some of the ice so that the lid would close more securely. When I can get some help with it, so that I won’t have to leave it empty for too long, I will tackle the defrosting. 

I got most of the bulletin done earlier today. Then I had time to take care of paying some bills. I had to order some flea medicine for Sweet Pea. She has been scratching a lot lately. Earlier today she got her toe nail caught in her fur to the point she couldn’t use one leg.  I had to spend some time making her lay down while I got scissors to cut her lose. 

This is one of the days for photo challenges that I could find right around here so I didn’t have to go out anywhere. I spend time in the “digital darkroom”....Photoshop.....processing the images.

The second upload today is “I sat here....”. This is “my place” after dinner and dishes cleared, Sweet Pea fed and let out. This is the time for “brain games” (to hopefully keep me as alert and thinking as possible for as long as possible). Along with that are breaks for crocheting, right now finishing something for all six great grandchildren. It’s a time for a last check of text messages for the day too. All of this with a little TV sound in the background. 

The word today is grasp. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning.  I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. Claude Monet.  Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. Abraham Lincoln.  I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. Saint Bernard.  To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop.  Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell.  Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? Horace.  The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. Daniel Webster.  In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. Plautus.  A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  

The last upload for today is one of the “photographer’s choice”. No particular reason for this photo except for its “artful” aspect. The individual shape in each of the natural block and the texture of the bark on the tree with the added touch of green moss attaching itself to the tree trunk sharing in its life. 

This article is about Columbus history before my time but I remember some of the stories. It affected the Franklinton area of Columbus which is now in the news a good bit with the revitalization goings on. Several years after the Great Flood, my mom grew up in that area of town. The “Great Flood” took place in 1913. The opening line pretty much explains it “Columbus found itself at the mercy of nature’s raw power in an event that would become the city’s most profound catastrophe”. It was a learning event that led to how the city handles disaster, communities in general and resilience. It all led to a “century-long aftermath”. It began with a heavy winter snowfall. Then in March following the long winter there was rain that brought more that five inches of water. It began “saturating the ground and overwhelming the Scioto River’s defenses”. The levees that were in place at the time were “no match for the deluge”. Franklinton founded in the low lying location near the Scioto River received the brunt of the “flood’s fury”. Some homes were totally submerged. One of Columbus’ famous citizens and the publisher of the Columbus Dispatch, Robert Wolfe, put together a “daring rescue mission”. Boats form Buckeye Lake were used to save stranded people. There were volunteers, local government and the National Guard to help in this disaster. The area was left in ruins but people were determined to rebuild and find a way to prevent it from happening again. Among other infrastructures renewed and built there was a 7.2-mile flood wall built. That flood wall was in periods of construction into 2004. The article related that the disaster left a legacy leading to more than physical structure considerations. There was reevaluation of urban planning and support systems.  It also led to better management in natural disasters and community participation. Today there is little if any “visible” from of the ruins but its memory it “embedded in Columbus’s identity”. The disaster was a hallmark in how the community worked together highlighting “resilience, unity, and the enduring human spirit. It reminds us of the importance of community and the value of preparedness.” Today Franklinton is a bustling community with art as part of the growth and revitalization. 

Hamburgers and fries for dinner.

Joy

all in a row....about an eighth of a mile from where they are supposed to be