August 17, 2024 a thought for today, Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. English Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “photographer’s choice”. This is another flower at the metro park down the street. I put is a digitally generated background created from another photo. 

The next upload was “blue”. I was looking for whatever I could find that was blue on my way home. This one seemed to fit the challenge.

The last upload for yesterday was “freshly baked”. I had a roll of Pillsbury biscuits and decided to make my second batch of donuts in the air fryer. They turned out so good the first time. 

Life today. I knew my vision was changing, I found out why yesterday. I have known for a long time that I have a condition that is not rare at all, dry eye. I had my annual eye exam yesterday where I got a bit of a surprise. My “bad” eye, the one that had the retinal detachment is fine. But the other, “good” eye is having a problem.  There was the whole series of tests before meeting the doctor. Then when it came to the on-the-wall letters twenty plus feet away was the surprise. The letters were all, even the top row, fuzzy. We couldn’t finish the part leading to a change in prescription. My dry eye has become more serious.  However, the internal parts of both eyes are healthy. So now there is a series of eye drops for two weeks before another exam. The doctor called in the prescription I need so on the way home I stopped to pick it up.

My first upload challenge for today is “day”. This was taken at the metro park when I stopped by on my way home.  

When I got to Kroger Pharmacy, they did not have the medicine I need. There would be a wait til tomorrow. But another store further out had it on hand. I made that trip and was pleasantly surprised that it was ready when I got to the counter. 

One of the daily photo challenges today that has given me pause for thought. I have to show an image that shows long exposure. After some research and practice I found that my new Samsung phone had a feature on it that helps with that kind of capture. I am excited with the new feature along with a couple of others I will be researching.

Today is grocery curbside pick up. Sweet Pea seems to sense that and is waiting for me to pay attention to the time. She is ready.

We’re back....now it’s time to put the groceries up. Then work on photos and house plants. That will be my Saturday for this week (well there is dinner to prepare and clean up).

The next upload was taken minutes before and a section in the next block of the one above. It is “favourite long exposure”. I mentioned the technique above and that I was learning to use it on my new cell phone. I want to practice with it some more.

The word today is like.  Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu.  I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honore de Balzac.  I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln.  In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson.  I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman.  Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Rumi.  Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli.  Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. Hosea Ballou.  I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. St. Jerome.

The last upload for today is “food in motion”. I decided to make myself a milkshake in my Ninja blender for this one. 

Article. I like that word....think.... it goes well with common sense. Both lead to the way that is our gift to learn. The bible one good place it is meant to work. The article is about something eye catching on a farm in Licking County. For more than twenty years there has been a sign in large black letters that spell ‘THINK’ position next to an American flag on a silo in a farm yard . It has been an object that has caused curiosity and amusement by people who have passed by. Drivers have stopped and asked about the sign. It helps to “stoke people’s intrigue.” One of the visitors was a man who was a veteran.  He stopped by to offer a flag to the owners. He said he would like his flag hanging there. When the farmer placed the sign on his silo, he hoped his daughters would be reminded “to think through any decisions before acting”. In the beginning it seemed to have meant for them to think about what they were doing around the farm so they wouldn’t get hurt. It grew to “You just need to use your head, regardless of whether you're farming or anything”. When the daughters messed up he  said they “had to think about how to fix it”. He wanted them to “use their heads”. As he was thinking where to put the sign he decided on the silo next to the flag. There was no “political” to it. Though it could “also mean think about your country and how fortunate we are to live where we do.” 

I think we are having hamburgers for dinner. 

Joy

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