March 25, 2025 a thought for today, Dreams are wiser than men. Native American  Omaha Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “yellow”. These daffodils are from my granddaughter in law’s garden. They were on the table at the birthday for Lexie. 

The next upload was “button”. I would like to have had an ornamental style
button but alas I don’t have any so this is the one from my jacket. 

The last upload for yesterday was “view”. This is not a view from my window today. It is a view of the sky on my road trip on Saturday.

Life today. Spring is moving a little slower than I would like but as least it is close. Most likely I will be complaining about being to hot in a couple of months. Nonetheless it is beautiful. 

I spent some more time on the newsletter this morning. I think I have it just about done. Hopefully I will be able to finish it tomorrow morning before I go to pantry. 

Today was the next to the last day of pantry for this month. It was very slow today. We had a very interesting happening not related to the business of passing out the food. One of the computers got bumped and something occurred that in all my years with IT I have never seen. The whole screen was upside down. In trying to get to the places where there might be help the curser was moving backwards.....remember I am dyslexic. I needed to get to the settings on the computer and then to the display function. But I couldn’t get things to go in the right direction. One of the other ladies came and tried. Eventually she was able to get to the settings and was able to “reverse the landscape” feature. Problem solved. Thank goodness we were close to being done for the day. There were only maybe three more people, I was able to check them in. (Found out later ctrl-alt page up keys would have done it).

The first upload for today is “it’s melting”. The cold winter weather with ice and snow is gone now so I chose my glass of iced tea....the ice is silently melting step by step. 

I didn’t have much more planned for today but I hadn’t snapped my photo uploads yet. So I took about half hour and found the images I needed to put together. Once that was done it was back to Photoshop for the final step in cataloging and the rest. 

Then it was time to finish the letter. 

The next upload for today is “macro”. This is one of my air plants nestled in a bed of decorative stones. 

The word is very.  Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius.  It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Confucius.  Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. Saint Patrick.  Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon.  It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln.  When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. Thomas Jefferson.  I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire.  A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. Benjamin Franklin.  This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt.  Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. Paracelsus.  To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila.  This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Saint Augustine. 

My last upload is “from above”. I went upstairs to get this one. I is of my neighbors yard. They always have such beautiful flower beds and well kept lawns. 

Article: I think this is a lesson in biology/entomology. It is interesting to know about all the nature and “creatures” around. The title to this article is “How many types of insects are there in the world?” It starts out buy pointing out “check your backyard and you may see ants, beetles, crickets, wasps, mosquitoes and more”. Then “there are more kinds of insects than there are mammals, birds and plants combined”. Living things belong to biological classifications such as Arthropoda, “animals with hard exoskeletons and jointed feet.”  Within that class there is a further break down depending on their anatomy.  Some have many feet, some wings, some antennae, some body segments. It went on to say that all insects descended from a common ancestor that lived about 480 million years ago “about 100 million years before any of our vertebrate ancestors – animals with a backbone – ever walked on land.” A species is a basic unit that classifies living things. Then there is another classification called categories. The “categories that may contain hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of species”.  I learned that “species are a group that can interbreed with each other, but not with other groups. One obvious example: bees can’t interbreed with ants”. The article mentioned that “counting the exact number of insect species is probably impossible”. Some species go extinct in time, “while some evolve anew”. One scientist published a research paper where his “calculations showed there are approximately 5.5 million insect species, with the correct number almost certainly between 2.6 and 7.2 million”. To further touch on that there are about 1.5 million species of beetle and “an estimated 22,000 species of ants”. Further, maybe 3,500 specie of mosquitoes and the count goes on for other types of insects. It is mentioned that “over 80% of the Earth’s insect biodiversity is still unknown”. An interesting statement is that “all the ants on Earth together weigh more than 132 billion pounds (about 60 billion kilograms)”.The article mentions how insects affect us in different ways, some in “crop pollination, industrial products and medicine”. Some affect in harmful ways as ”transmitting disease or eating our crops”. Most are harmless go people and are critical to the environment. Interestingly due to the extinction of many “a significant proportion of Earth’s biodiversity – including insects – may ultimately be forever lost.” 

I didn’t make chili the other night, think I will do it tonight or then again, something from the freezer. 

Joy

                               one view of a part of a mini mall