November 5, 2024 a thought for today, If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. Cheyenne Proverb

The first challenge for yesterday was “macro”. Most of my macros are of the floral kind. Right now there is a scarcity of the blossom type. So I picked one from my archives. 

The next photo a day upload was “cattle”. I am not a country girl so I pulled a photo I shot sometime  ago in one of my frequent trips in the country side. 

The last upload for today was “monotone”. Black and white is a monotone naturally but I wanted to step aside from that for a change. I used this one, a more sepia one instead. 

Life today. This is going to be a busy day with much of my daily routine moved to tomorrow. It is THE day to vote....I don’t do it by mail or use the early method....I do it the old fashioned American way. Then at 2:00 I have an appointment for an estimate on fixing my “fender bender”. I am running out of ink in the printer and need to do a little printing for church so I ordered some ink to be delivered later this afternoon. I ask for it to be hand delivered so that I was sure to get it. I will have to be back here by 4:00,

The first photo upload for today is called “in the style of Esher”. This is the group I belong to who have a photo a day upload four times/days a month. I had to look up the idea for this one. I appreciate what I learned about this artist and found after I put together this simple example there is a lot more to his art. Here is a definition of this artist: Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. As I checked out more of his work I saw that they are indeed of extreme mathematical designs, much more than my simple offer. I hadn’t considered the “math” part of a design. 

I went to vote at 8:30. The parking lot was full to overflowing so I came back home. I went back at 10:30. The lot was still full but I found a place to park and went in anyway. The line moved almost non stop so I was in and out in about fifteen minutes. I got to run into a dear friend with whom I have many connected memories. She is the daughter of the person who was my best friend for many years before she went to heaven (still is a friend in my heart and mind)...Nancy. I also met up with my next door neighbor while I was there. That is one of the reasons I like to vote in person and on voting day. I did a lot of praying for help in making the right decision. Politics can sometimes be so ugly and full of slander and untruths. We have to look beyond that, read between the lines along with using common sense along with the teacher called life long experience and education. Personal fact checking from reliable and proven sources help. At least those were my own methods.. Weren’t there touches of Christianity in the constitution, in regard to people to/for America.

Back home. I loaded the dishwasher then back to the computer. I will get the photos done as well as the letter before my 2:00 appointment.

The next upload was “penny for the guy”. The photo clubs I belong to are international in nature. I had not heard of this subject until I researched it. “In Sussex in the closing years of the 19th century it was customary for children to carry round an effigy of Guy Fawkes (a scarecrow figure) chanting a rhyme. It is  still being used in Berkshire and elsewhere. Guy Fawkes, also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.”

The weather is perfect. We are having full sun most of the time with a few clouds drifting in front of the sun for a few lazy moments now and then. I have a sweat shirt on but will be changing to short sleeves in a few minutes. 

I am trying a selection of kidney prescription diet meals on Sweet Pea. So far after three different selections she doesn’t like any of them. I still have two in this veterinary selection to try. I hope for her to select at least one of them. 

The next upload is “circles”. I couldn’t immediately think of a good “artistic” circle image. As I as putting dishes from dishwasher away, I noticed this servicing tray and all of the circles and practical circles in its design. So I decided to use it.

The word today is once.  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus. The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli.  My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln.  Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid.  What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake.  When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. Alexander Hamilton.  Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. Charles Caleb Colton.  Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. Saint Augustine.  We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. Thomas Aquinas.  What is once well done is done forever. Henry David Thoreau.  

My last upload for today is “farm equipment”. As with the photo above of “cattle”, I am not a country girl. This image was taken along the same route I travel on my way to Mt. Sterling. 

Article: Since winter will be here in a couple of months I thought we might see what the predictions are for this year. This article is touching on the subject with information from “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” and shares some of that with us. Although I don’t mind the snow so much, at least when I can get the car out safely. It is the cold temperature part that bothers me. The article also mentioned that the Almanac has been a source visited often for predications for over 230 years. The prediction this year is that the “temperatures will be up and snowfall down throughout most of the United States.” It goes on to say that Ohio will have plenty of snow especially in central and southern Ohio. Apparently “late December will kick off the snowy season, with more flurries on the horizon from late January into February and even mid-March”. Here’s the kicker for me, “get ready for some colder-than-normal temperatures, especially in February”. The article says that there is going to be a “good” mix fo snow and “chilly” days. Here’s another part of it that caught my attention, “Ohio’s winter promises to be one to remember”. The article also state that “high heating costs associated with the season shouldn’t hit so hard”. That part I think will be left to be seen. 

It’s probably going to be fish and fries for dinner. 

Joy

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