August 25, 2024 a thought for today, A speck on a jade stone won't obscure its radiance. Chinese Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “create a framed image”. I chose these trees that seem to frame a part of a local shopping mall. 

The second challenge upload for yesterday was “my favourite dessert”. My
choice for the image is chocolate low carb ice cream with whipped topping on top.

The last upload for yesterday was “polka dot”. These are “almost” polka dots. Since I don’t have any other available I used them. I needed to fill a little bit of a curve into make them a full dot. 

Life today. It appears that Sunday services have become so relaxed that flip flop footwear and Bermuda shorts are the “Sunday go to meetin’ clothes” for some. When I was a teen age girl my Sunday dress attire was white gloves, nylon hose with a back seam, garter belt, hat and heels along with the nicest dress or skirt in the closet. At that time there were crinoline petty coats to gussy up the dress. I know that didn’t make us better Christians but it was the style for church back then. I think the time it took to get ready for church and the choice of clothing was supposed to be a sign of respect. It’s one of the many signs of change in society which seems to allow the young to feel freer and unrestricted in their choices. But then they watch the way their elders live and through example. Oh well, just a sign of the times and the way society evolves.

The first upload for today is “cherries”. My sister happened to have part of a bag of frozen left over  dark sweet cherries. I took advantage of that for this image. 

The Sunday school kids wanted to show me a project they were working on and on their own without instruction before church started. I took some photos of their excitement in the project. I’ll put them in the next newsletter.

I had one heck of a time setting up props for some of the photos today. It was another of those times of observing and learning..... can’t get enough of the learning thing. 

This upload is titled “your interpretation of a soft image”. The subject matter isn’t “soft” but part of the image are soft in focus and aura.

The word today is lose. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi.  Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales.  To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard. The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. Mencius. Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Aesop. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. Friedrich Schiller.  He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. Publilius Syrus.  Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. Saint Francis de Sales.  Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail. Saint Ignatius.  For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

My last upload for today is “a bowl of ....” some Doritos for our taco salad dinner. 

Article: It’s about that time....for the clocks to be reset. Here’s some information about it...daylight saving time. Maybe some we already know, maybe a new tid bit. Columbus clocks get set back in a a couple of months to last for four months and the sun will set an hour earlier. According to the article, “while the winter solstice on Dec. 21 is the shortest day of the year, it doesn't have the earliest sunset because of how the solar day lines up with our Gregorian calendar days”. Daylight savings time started in 1966. Later congress passed the “Emergency Daylight Saving Time and Conservation Act in 1973". The reasons for daylight savings was/is an energy saving plan. Over the years there have been complaints. Parents complained of their children going to school in the dark from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. So the dates for the time change shifted. In 2022 there was another shift. Another act was passed “the Sunshine Protection Act via unanimous consent, which would keep daylight saving time in effect year-round”. It passed the Senate but not by the House of Representatives. As it turns out, as mentioned in the article about “Who's to blame for daylight saving?” It can be traced back to the ancient Romans. The Roman clock changed with the season. During the summer the “daylight hours” would be 75 minutes long and night hours, 45 minutes. This pattern would reverse in the winter. The plan then was so workers would “labor from sun up to sun down”. Some say Benjamin Franklin “invented modern daylight saving time”. He jokingly mentioned in 1784 that “Parisians wake up earlier to save money on candles, but he did not propose changing the clocks themselves”. In the story of daylight savings then came a person named “George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist who proposed changing clocks on the equinoxes to align the working day with daylight in 1895". At first it was not accepted but in 1927 there was a “trial run”. In 2005 some “states and territories could opt out of daylight saving time without federal approval”. According to the article those who did are Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands and most of Arizona.

I am trying something I found in using biscuits other than just biscuits and butter. I am making a tuna pocket for dinner. 

Joy                     looking for lunch