February 19, 2025 a thought for today, The sun shines brighter after a shower. Yiddish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “r is for ...”, roofs. I liked the juxtaposition of the shapes of this set of roofing as well as the other shapes and patterns. 

The second upload was “f is for ....”, French fries with a touch of catsup on the
side. I stopped by McDonalds on my way home. 

The last upload for yesterday. Was “streetlights”. I couldn’t decide whether the better choice would be the kind of street light that light of the night or he street lights that direst traffic. I think it should have been the kind that light up the night. Buy when I was a kid we called the stop light street lights too. 

Life today. For some reason I feel like I have been pushing myself today more than I usually do. I had a touch up to the bulletin before I got started on the rest of the day. I got todays letter started. 

Today was a food pantry day. Yesterday was the first of the two. It was much busier than I expected since the temperature outside was nine degrees. But they made it and I didn’t hear much complaining about the cold. Today was a little warmer and we had fewer folks show up.

On my way to church for pantry I stopped at the ATM machine. I needed some cash to get gas.  After pantry I stopped for the gas....the gas tank is on the riders side rather than the drivers side of the this car. I am use to the one on the drivers side. This is the second time I filled the tank in this car. I am just a little nervous about judging distance on that side of the car when it is close quarters. 

The first photo challenge for today is “q is for...”. In the paragraph below I described my choices for I had gotten a couple of my photos while I was at church. I needed one, a “diamond”, that I wasn’t sure how I was going to capture. On the way home I drove by the park to see if I could get a shot of the baseball diamond. It was covered with to much snow to work for this one. So I ended up using the playing card, diamond of hearts. I have one piece of jewelry (I don’t wear much jewelry) that has a diamond in it but I didn’t have time to search for it. The deck of cards came in handy one more time for a photo. 

I also stopped at Kroger. They had called to let me know some of my medicine was ready to be picked up. 

Sue was gone when I got home. I imagine she is either shopping or visiting the twins.

The next photo upload was "mirror or reflection in a mirror". I captured this one at  church as well as the one below. I like the "homey" feel of this image with the plants and the cushioned wicker chair. 

The word today is small. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh.  From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. Aeschylus.  Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin. Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift.  Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. Sallust.  Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal.  I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson.  Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes.  Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. George Eliot.  Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. Pindar.  A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal.  Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius.  But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Lord Byron.  

The last upload for today is “s is for....”. This is the bottle of spring water we have at food pantry at the moment. It is in this attractive bright blue bottle. More than one of the folks coming to pantry have been curious about was in such a pretty bottle. 

Article: This was mouth dropping for me. “The World’s First Car Accident Happened Here In Ohio.” There was a man named James William Lambert who was a “pioneer” in the automobile industry in Ohio and he was the first in the country to crash one. Early in 1891 he had built “himself a gas-powered buggy, known as the Buckeye Gasoline Buggy, because, well, Ohio pride”.The article related that is was one of the “first gasoline automobiles in the U.S.” He decided that he needed to check it and took it for a “spin”. He had a passenger with him. He was “cruising along when the car’s wheel hit a tree root.” It tuned out it wasn’t a minor bump in the road.  The car “zigzagging uncontrollably until it met its fate: a horse-hitching post”. He and the gentleman with him “walked away with nothing more than a bruised ego”. The car “survived the crash” but on October 1, 1891 was destroyed in a burning barn. Mr. Lambert went on to build the Buckeye Manufacturing Company where his designs turned to four-wheel automobiles. At time they were  “gearless transmissions”. It grew to the point he was designing trucks and fire engines as well and mass producing cars.  The article relayed that a century later there was a plaque “marking the spot of the world’s first automobile accident”. As a side note to the original article: “In 1895 there were only 2 cars in the entire state of Ohio yet they still ended up crashing into each other.”

I am pulling something from the freezer for dinner again tonight. 

Joy  

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