June 30, 2024 a thought for today, God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts. Persian Proverb

One of the challenges for yesterday was “action”. For some reason when I shot the photo it was stuck in my mind that the challenge was motion. I figure the cars in motion in traffic is the action getting from one place to another. 

The next photo was titled “something most people overlook”. I’m sure everyone notices these grates in the street from time to time but become so use to them that they get ‘overlooked’. 

The last photo for yesterday was “I found...”. If I look around I can find these all over they the yard in different places. To me they are a flower not a weed. 

Life today. The service on the one hand was different today. This was the last day our organist/chore director was with us. He is retiring.....has retired as of today. We had a fellowship hour in his honor today but he didn’t come...perhaps he was sad to leave as some of us get when in a big change in life. 

Today the weather is wonderful, cool enough to be comfortable and sunny enough to be a good old summer time experience. 

The first challenge upload for today is “I do this on Sundays”. I go to church. I spend the day in renewal, refresh and restore.

I stopped at Wendy’s for an early lunch. After I got home and had eaten my sandwich. Rebecca and Lowell stopped by to invite me to lunch with them. Since I am also downloading the church service to facebook I said I would take a rain check. 

The only thing on this Sunday’s to-to agenda is moving the church service from the memory card to facebook for others to enjoy. Other than that it is a nice day to take it easy and renew my energy and positive thinking and planning. 

The next challenge is “lens flare”. I think this is more like a sun flare but the effects are similar and easier for me to capture, at least today, easier. 

The word today is great. We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke.  Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli.  The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron.  Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Francis Drake.  Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras.  Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal.  Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. Thomas a Kempis.  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Horace Mann.  Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. Saint Teresa of Avila. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt. 

The last upload for today and for this month is “favourite macro shot”. I like all of the close up and macros shots. They show so much that can easily be overlooked and dismissed. 

Article: It’s interesting what archeologist (including biological anthropologists, Paleolithic archaeologists, earth scientists and geneticists) can find and learn about life thousands of years ago on this planet. Information from human beings and their surroundings. We can imagine what life was like in that time and how the eons have presented awesome changes. This article is about on particular discovery that happened 50 (1974) years ago. It is the remains of a human being that they named Lucy discovered in Ethiopia. When the body parts (47 found at the time) were placed together, in Cleveland Ohio by the way, she was 3.5 feet tall which is some taller than other findings of about the same time in the history of this planet.  Lucy would have lived about 3.8 million years ago. Lucy is the oldest and most complete skeleton of human ancestor every found at that time. To make clear some of the points in this article it is mentioned that “two features set humans apart from all other primates: big brains and standing and walking on two legs instead of four”. Before Lucy was found scientists believed that brains. But when Lucy was found it was found that she had a brain smaller in size the formerly believed. She also walked on two feet and was not much larger than a chimpanzee. When she was found and “reassembled” one of the observers took a photo of the skeleton next to his 4 year old daughter. The “two were roughly the same size, providing a simple illustration of Lucy’s small stature and brain”. It was also discovered that Lucy was not a young child. When her teeth and bones were studied her age was estimated to be that of a “fully adult (person) when she died”. With further examination of the area where Lucy was found it was the “fossilized footprint trails 3.6 million years old, made by members of her species, Lucy proved unequivocally that standing and walking upright was the first step in becoming human”. Remains that were found before Lucy were dated back to on 2.9 millions ago. Which shows that the Lucy’s stature came at a different stage in earths existence   or could it be in different sections of the earth than the body types with the larger brains and less upright in stature. According to the article paleoanthropologists are wanting “to survey unexplored areas, pose new hypotheses and develop and use novel techniques and methodologies”. 

I’m not sure if it will be something from the freezer or spaghetti for dinner. 

Joy

composites of my four monthly photo club photo a day challenges