Sunday, September 1, 2024

 August 31, 2024 a thought for today, If I try to be like him, who will be like me? Jewish Proverb



One of the uploads for yesterday was “glass”. My hydroponics garden is in mason jars, since the challenge was glass, not jar. I transferred one of the hydroponic plants (lucky bamboo) to a drinking glass for the shot. 




The second upload for the 30th was “off the beaten path”. This is a little used path located beside a bicycle path that is sandwiched between this path and railroad tracks. What a beautiful and quiet view as one is riding a bicycle. By the way, when I took this shot there two bicyclists on the path at about a 5 minute interval.



The last photo for yesterday was “window”.  This is another window in my neighborhood. This one adorned with a flower box. 

Life today. It has been a near perfect Saturday. It isn’t perfect that Sue’s car is still in the shop but it is nice that we can spend more time together as sisters. I am taking her on errands she needs to get done. Today she needed to go to the store. I had already placed my order for pick up, besides I don’t like to do that much walking any more if I don’t have to. So I took her to the store and dropped her off. When I went back to pick up my groceries she was ready to come home. The timing worked out great. 

This is the last day of the month for the August photos so I have an extra “record keeping” chore to with all the photos of the month. Then I generated the portfolio calendar I have for the daily photos to be entered each day for the coming month, September. 

I had the groceries to put away. Then it was back to the computer to my daily computer routines. These “routines” seem to grow with time. They keep me busy, happy and learning.

The first upload for this last day of August 2024 is “a is for....”. A set of arrows that are seen a lot along one of the main arteries in Columbus these days. I like all of the red surround in the image also. 

Brian was around to see if I needed anything done. The grass is in no shape to be mowed. This is the worst season for green grass than I have ever experienced here in Ohio. The “green” grass reminds me of what I have heard grass looks like in some the southwestern state. 

I am expecting a deliver of some art supplies for my great grand children. I have a plan forming for the ones of them who like doing art projects. I am eager to get it started to see where it leads, maybe no where but the journey will be fun. I have a dream for where it will go though that may be just a pipe dream. According to Disney....dreams can come true. 

This next upload for today is an experiment on my part. It is called “full manual” with setting listed.  I don’t use manual often but I enjoyed experimenting with this one. I took exposures using different iso, f stops etc. I like this one. The setting on it are 1/1000sec, F 1.8, iso 400. I like the color tones in the image.

The word for today is meet.  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau.  Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi.  Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius.  The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. Thucydides.  Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Philo. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Every man I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. Aesop.

The last challenge upload for this month is “a market stall”. As I was on my way the the curb side pick  up for the day I spotted this tent sale. I think is fits the challenge although the products in the market stall are furniture rather than food or flee market style.

Article: Just a bit of a message about a scientific happening, I think. The title: “Nature: Squirrel takes popular 'golden gopher' nickname”. There is a football team the Golden Gophers. In 1926 there was a coach named Clarence Spears who called the team that name. One description of the small animal is a “13-lined ground squirrel, a relative of prairie dogs”. The area they live in for the most part is in the western states. The article said that the most famous of these critters is “the black-tailed prairie dog”.  The article went on to say that in the time of European settlements some of the settlement were called “dogtowns” where over 100 million animals lived. As human population grew the animal families decreased. There are four species of prairie dogs who are “close relatives, the ground squirrels” who all live in the western US and in parts of Canada. More varieties of the ground squirrel live further east which reaches “its eastern limits in central Ohio”. One called the “thirteen-lined ground squirrels resemble chipmunks on steroids”. The author says “the rodents are inarguably cute, with large almond-shaped eyes and alternating bands of gold and brown”. They “build” tunnels below ground where they find a place to “escape” and hide. It use to be they favored cemeteries in the prairie areas. They seem to “post a sentry” when the others hunt for food, they warn the others with “birdlike chatters to alert its mates”. In a trip to Pickaway and Ross counties the author found one group in grassy areas near a small airport, others seem to “live” in a “fairly large cemetery”. He found that they appeared in low numbers, maybe a “dozen animals between the two sites”. He then mentioned that they hibernate for up to six months beginning in October. Before that they “devour” plants and insects to fatten themselves. This is interesting, while they are hibernating “respiration slows from 150 to 200 breaths a minute to about one breath every five minutes”. There was a book published in 1981 that listed 28 counties where there are ground squirrel colonies. The squirrles families have decreased greatly. Some people believe that “burrowing mammals would cause damage”. However that is a misnomer due to the fact that “their burrows are too small and well separated to cause structural weakness in the soil”. Their numbers continue to decrease in Ohio. 

It’s going to be hamburgers and fries for dinner. 

Joy





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