April 2, 2025 a thought for today, Not all danger comes with a warning. Native American Cheyenne Proverb

The fist upload for yesterday was “glimmer (micro moment)”. This one is my desk top humidifier (with my little gnome sitting under the “rain” fall. 

The second upload was “bokeh” (the blurred quality or effect seen in the out-of-focus portion of a photograph). I used a Christmas image from the archives so that I would have some lights as part of the bokeh affect. 

The last upload was also from the archives. This was taken a while back. None of it is still standing today. 

Life today. Today I found that the items mentioned in my last letter that were moved to the “back burner” was nearly as big as the whole original list was in the beginning with a couple of more things added. So, needless to say it has been another “overextended” list of chores for today. Oh, and as mentioned in the last letter, I had another “update” to do on an email, I took a break from the rest to see that one through. Today moved along more quickly than the other day. I think I accomplished everything on the back burner list. Part of that was putting the finishing touches on the printing pieces for tomorrow. Now I am all set on that one.

I baked a chocolate cake “treat” in the waffle iron. I haven’t tasted it yet, it looks and smells good. After cleaning up the mess from the baking session I finished loading the dish washer. The only thing that still needs cleaned from the baking time is the waffle iron. I over loaded it and had a lot of dripping/over spill. I have to let it cool before I an clean it. 

Sue had come home with one of those zip up storage containers made of silicone. That sparked a search of my own. I ordered a set of smaller ones than the one she had for my smaller meals. They are freezable and can then go directly in the microwave. I used one today for the left over cake batter. By the way, I wanted the cake to be chocolate but all I could order right now was a zero sugar yellow cake mix so I did some research and found that I could add a fourth of a cup of cocoa to the mix to turn it to chocolate.  

This is another of the “glimmer (micro moment)”. One of my photo groups is using this “challenge” name each day this month. This one is a “glimmer” of a part of my day when I was doing some baking. 

We had a pretty heavy storm on Sunday night, today they are predicting another one for tonight that may be even stronger. The sun was out for a while but most of the day have been over cast. It seems we are having some stronger weather occurrences in these past several months. The conditions cause some reasons to be more alert  at least to my way of thinking. 

It is becoming evident that we will be getting back to the yard work routine for the coming months. Brian has been around. If not for the rain being predicted for the next few days we would probably be on it today. 

The second upload for today is “table”. It speaks for itself. It is a table in my dining room that holds, my sister’s collection of decorative bowls to hold treats for ourselves and visitors, one of my hydroponic house plants (lucky bamboo), and my bible, The Message. 

The word is water.  Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes.  One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. Lao Tzu.  The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. John Constable.  Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid.  Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. Saint Basil.  A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them. Michel de Montaigne.  In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. Leonardo da Vinci.  The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. Saint Teresa of Avila.  In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it. Lao Tzu.  Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed. Saint Augustine. 

The last upload for today is “water drops”. This is one I shot the day we did the “challenge” of rain or rain drops. 

Article: the time of year for Earth Day. The title to this story is “Earth Day: Origins.....Earth Day activities to help you celebrate this year”. The article started with asking “why not celebrate it by taking one day to make it a better, healthier place?” Earth Day has been “celebrated” for several years “promoting environmental protection, and demonstrating the importance of planetary health”. The “special day” was started by a former governor and state senator from Wisconsin. He was also a US senator and at one point in that career he “built a political environmental agenda in Washington and had the idea to create a national teach-in about environmental issues in 1969". He chose April 22 as the “national date for Earth Day because it best fit into college schedules between spring break and final exams”. The first official Earth Day was April 22, 1970. This year is the fifty-fifth Earth Day. In this article I read that the Farmer’s Almanac suggests 10 things you can do on Earth Day. Here they are: support the bees by planting plants they are drawn to, pick up plastic where you find it left on lawns and streets, explore nature, plant a tree, plant wildflowers, ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’, conserve water use, prevent wasting produce, get others involved. 

 I think I will make a vegetable soup for dinner. 

Joy