March 21, 2025 a thought for today, Man's law changes with new understanding. The laws of the spirit never needs to change. Native American Crow Proverb
The first upload for yesterday was “everyday object”. Most of what we see every day is an every day object. Since this wasn’t a holiday or other special day most things around me were “everyday”. This is my front door and its view.
out loud. This one is in my archives. It is my granddaughter a few years ago enjoying one of our many family gatherings.
Next is “springtime”. There are bundles of new leaves here and there in this time of rebirth. This is only one I have found in my yard.
Life today. It has been a nice and easy going Friday, just the kind that I like. I got a tiny start on the newsletter calendar. Then I got a leisurely start on the research for the parts of this letter that I make. After that it was time for Sweet Pea and me to get ready for our trip to Kroger for grocery pick up. I chanced the schedule from Saturday this week to today.
While we were out and about I was able to capture all three of my photos a day for today. I think maybe Sweet Pea gets a little tired of that, meaning the starts and stops as I am looking for the things that fit my expectations. Now that the weather is getting better I am hoping to be able to find my challenges each day rather than using archived images for the uploads. Though many of the photos I shoot along with specific challenges are used later for future challenges.
Once the groceries were put up I put some time in the “darkroom” cataloging today captures to the archive files and preparing the chosen ones for upload.
shopping center as we were leaving after grocery pickup
I have a small bedroom and have found and decided that I need to make some adjustments figuring a way to neaten things up. It is a task to do due to the usable space. I have purchased and hung an over the door hanger. As often happens I find that my “petite” size in height is once again, as is many times, compromised since the hooks are not as long as I had imagined. In that light I had to make an addition to the hooks so that I can hang items comfortably. I made those adjustments using the time between my letter and photo exercises (it’s called “multitasking” a daily habit for me).
My nightly bible readings, particularly the chapter I am currently reading, have been giving me some real reason for deeper thought with some adjustment to my own spiritual growth and personal expressions. I will be working on them with hopes they will stick. Isn’t it amazing that old dogs can and do keep learning. God is willing that for me and nudging me. I need for Him to give me the strength and guidance to stick to it.
The sun is bright and encouraging though the temps are slightly lower than my favorites. This is Ohio ..... my home and my life long choice for many reasons.
The word today is treat. Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained. Lao Tzu. The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates. Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. Thomas Paine. Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. Laozi. A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. Thomas Carlyle. Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Saint Ambrose. We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. Henry David Thoreau. We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. Plutarch. Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. Lao Tzu. The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues. William Godwin.
Article: I never thought about or imagined that the Broad Street bridge was once not only made of wood (naturally it would have been when it was first built) but was at one point a covered bridge. The beginning of the article relates that the Scioto River and the Olentangy River come together near downtown Columbus. Native Americans have lived where the rivers fork for hundreds of years. Prehistoric mound builders built large ceremonial mounds that were also used as a form of defense. The mounds were built but no bridges. In 1797 Lucas Sullivant came here and liked the area. He laid out town plans on land near what is now Plain City and Bellpoint Ohio hoping settlers would come. The place he liked best though was at the fork of the Scioto and Olentangy. This is were he build another town, on the west bank of the rivers at the fork. That town got it name from someone Sullivant admired, Ben Franklin, hence, Franklinton. In 1798 Sullivant took a trip back to his home in Kentucky leaving 15 settlers in Franklinton. When he got back the settlers were gone. The town had been wiped away in a flood. He moved to a part of the land that was on higher ground. Here he offered free lots on what is now Gift Street. In 1801 there were no bridges on the river. Across the river was an area called the Refugee Tract, an area from Fifth Avenue north on Refugee Road. There was an area called High Banks that was opposite Franklinton. It was “heavily forested and punctuated by a 40-foot-high Native American mound” ‘devoid’ of people. In offering an image of this landscape the description included a grove of plum trees and a pawpaw patch. In those days getting from the town on one side of the river to the other side people had to cross by “fords” and ferries. There was a spot called the “Old Ford....a point where the Hocking Valley Railroad now crosses the river near the foot of Main Street”. A canoe ferry was kept there. This is a bit of history of how a bridge was finally erected. “From 1816 to 1834 a series of wooden toll bridges were built to span the river”. Then in 1834 a new bridge went up and was called the National Road Bridge. I was a covered bridge “free of tolls”. It was replaced in 1883 by an “iron truss bridge”. In 1913 it was “heavily damaged” in a flood. It so happened that in 1908 a “master plan” had been made for a new bridge that could “withstand future floods”. This bridge was started during World War I. The Federal government “promoted” the use of concrete for the construction mostly due to the fact that steel was needed in the “war effort”. It was built in the “Renaissance Revival style with seven arch spans, the bridge could carry four lanes of automobile traffic and two trolley lines”. There were three flood during it’s construction. It was completed in 1921 and was named in honor of veterans. In 1927 a plaque was placed on the bridge “commemorating the National Road”. In 1990 another new bridge took its place with the present five span plate-arch structure.
This is DoorDash or GrubHub night for dinner.
Joy
for work in the air
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