February 1, 2025 a thought for today, Profit and loss are companions. Hebrew Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “snowflake (macro)”. It’s not so much really a macro or a “real live snowflake” either. I actually did/do have an image of a single snowflake that I took in one of the same sessions I was working for the snow bubble image. The flake wasn’t in very good focus so I decided to use this one that hangs in the window next to my desk. 

The next image for yesterday was “unexpected”. This was truly unexpected. I noticed it when I was getting out of my car yesterday. That is an exhaust for the furnace just above the ice cycle. I have been told that if that ice cycle had been attached to the exhaust pipe there could have been a carbon monoxide situation. 

The last upload for yesterday, the last day of the month January was “feather”. I have a couple of feather images in my archives. I don’t seem to be in a area where there are feathers laying around very often. 

Life today. Ahhhh....Saturday! Time to go slow and easy. Besides the grocery pick up that’s exactly the way it is going to be today. It’s cooler than in the past couple of days but the sun is shining and energizing. 

Lowell and I took care of part of the finishing steps on the car being totally mine. The only thing left now is getting the license plate changed to this car....I am using the one from the Camry because the licence plate was only a year or so old. We could have done it yesterday but the line was so long it would have been dinner time or later before we got home. 

Yesterday I got the photo-a-day calendar for January done and printed for my portfolio and the new ones for February set up for all four photo clubs. 

I am hungry for sweets, but since I am a type 2 diabetic I have to be attentive of the carbs and sugars in the food. I am going to make a chocolate pudding dump cake. I will just have to make the slices smaller than “average”. I could us a sugar free cake mix and sugar free pudding but I have the regular “stuff” on hand for today. 

My first upload for today is one of “my choice”. I am starting a series of door images. This is the first of five in this series. 

There is a “oil change required” light on in my car. I googled it, after Lowell mentioned that he had done the same. It looks very easy to reset the warning light. The mechanic we had a couple weeks ago said the oil was changed when it was in his garage. 

The second upload today is “a is for...”, in this case apple.  This was in Sue’s grocery bag so I took advantage and used it a my model for today.

The word today is seek.  Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. Buddha.  Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. Saint Augustine.  As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare.  The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley  We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. Thomas Browne.  Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. Francis of Assisi. In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. Solon.  Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake.  Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. Epicurus.  Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. Horace Mann.  What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known. Confucius.  

The last upload for today is “food”. This is from my own grocery pick up bags today. It is just a collection of some of the total order. 

Article: There were two photo in this article that I noticed. It turned out they were about solar energy with a new look and grabbed my interest. It seems like a unique and novel idea. The Worthington Library has a new piece of art on their lawn. It “unfurls SmartFlower to help power Northwest branch with solar panels”. The article mentioned that “To passing motorists, it may look like one of those large, obsolete  cable dishes you'd see in backyards”.  It is a 17-foot-tall piece of art looking like sunflower petals offering a look of a “kind of personality”. This amazing thing about it is that it “unfurls its solar pedals in the morning to greet the south-facing sun.” Then it rotates to best capture the rays of the sun. At night it retracts into its holding structure. During the refraction process “it cleans itself with built-in squeegees”. This one is the first of its kind in Ohio. The library "allocated $60,000 for the structure, which included an outdoor picnic table that charges electronics using a solar canopy and an array of rooftop panels”. The Sunflower structure panels are connected to the rooftop panels. This arrangement is expected to “power at least two-thirds of the branch's needs, depending on outdoor temperature and other factors”. In addition to the energy collection it is “expected to offset the equivalent of 154 tons of carbon dioxide annually”.The article related that it is “like the library taking 33.3 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles off the road for the year, or the equivalent of powering 27.6 homes a year”.

We may go GrubHub or DoorDash, maybe from Panera, tonight for dinner. 

Joy    

The collection of my photos of the day for the month of January 2025