My Life, My World

October 20, 2024 a thought for today, Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands. Jewish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “water droplets”. It is a little hard to find the water drops on the evergreen branches but they are there.

The next upload rather fits the season, “bones”. I could think about what I would use for this image. I have a copy of my hip replacement but it is buried somewhere in my files. I have something called a bone folder that I use for folding the bulletins and newsletters. (They were once made of bones from cows, now they are plastic). I was going to use it until I came through the neighborhood and found this skeleton.

The third upload was “serene landscapes”. I drove by a couple of places in the neighborhood that would meet this description. I finally chose this one of the local park near my house.

Life today. The comfort of “family” at church hit the mark today as usual. The sermon was good, the hymns relayed their message well. The prayers carried their power.

It’s a simply gorgeous autumn day. On the way home from church I made my rounds for some of the photos I need for today. The weather made it even more enjoyable in the search.

The first photo upload for today is “pictures”. I think I have been mentioning the photo rails I recently bought. This is some of my sister’s sketches of our family mounted on the new rails. Some are my sister and myself, our grandfather and mother on my father’s side, my father when he was toddler riding on a tricycle. It also holds one of my photo a hundreds of nails in a telephone pole.

I got home and started on this letter when Sue came down. I had decided that I wanted her sketches and/or paintings on this set of photo/art railings. So we went to the garage to find her work that has been in “storage” for more than five years now. We were able to get some of them in the house, that is a chore for two old ladies. We had to leave the larger ones for Tami when she comes to help tomorrow. We placed seven of her pieces. I like the affects. The way it looks solidified the thought of getting at least one more set of rails. For some more art work, hers and mine.

The next challenge for the day is “thin ice!”. It’s not winter here yet so this on is from my archives. As shown some fallen leaves on a sheet of thin ice.

The rest of the day will be what Sunday is made for ..... reflection and renewal.

The next challenge is “a trail”. This is another view of one of the many paths
and trails through the park near my house.

The word today is neither. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. Robert Green Ingersoll. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. Martin Luther. Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi. Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aurelius. Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. Matthew Henry. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson. To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Epictetus. To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus. Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke. He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. William Penn. Of two evils, choose neither. Charles Spurgeon.

This is another of the days that I have a fourth photo a day upload. This challenge is “curvy/curly”. I wanted my daughter to come by yesterday for this one. She couldn’t make it. My reason for wanting her to come by is that she recently got a hair cut. She has naturally very curly hair. With this hair cut the curl was very pronounced. Since she wasn’t able to stop by I used some of my paper quilling samples.

This article is about some of the oldest metro parks in our city. In 1945 the “Columbus-Franklin County Metro Parks began creating spaces to preserve forest and recreation land. These parks are meant to contribute to “conservation, education and connecting residents with the great outdoors”. In 1945 when the “park district” began there “only 100 acres of Franklin County’s woodlands were public lands”. There was three years of planning when “Blacklick Woods became the first Columbus & Franklin County Metro Park when it opened in 1948". Some of the first essential features in the park was a well and a gravel road. It has grown to more than a 650-acre park. It now has a “nature center, six trails, picnic shelters, play areas, and seasonal ponds”. The most recent addition to the park is a major and unique idea. It is the “hottest attraction in the park”. What I am referring to is the “treetop canopy walk that stretches an eighth of a mile long and is 40 feet above the ground and situated among the trees”. This feature has observation decks, a rope bridge, a giant hammock along with a two-story educational center with a fire pole visitors can slide down from the second level to the main floor.” The next park to be brought into the system was the Blendon Woods Metro Park in 1951. In the “1960s, Columbus' population increased, highways expanded and suburbs rapidly grew”. Then the Metro Parks system “purchased land to expand existing parks and secure space for new ones”. In the 1970s some of the parks “hosted teacher trainings and classes for gardening clubs and established the Junior Naturalists program”. Now there are 20 Metro Parks “with more than 230 miles of trails and more than 28,700 acres of land located in the Columbus area and extending beyond Franklin County into six other counties in central Ohio”.

Dinner will be something from the freezer this evening, I’m tired and/or lazy.

Joy

patterns in samples of wood flooring tiles