May 30, 2025 a thought for today, The full teapot makes no sound the half-empty teapot is very noisy. Chinese Proverb

The first upload yesterday was “messy”. This is some of the fallen  needles from the evergreen tree creating a messy pile on a trash can lid.  

The next upload is “pasta”. This was part of my dinner a couple of nights ago. 

The last upload for yesterday was “my choice”, one of my series of peeling paint. 

Life today. I am having another quiet and slow moving Friday, perfect. I am not planning too much. I had wanted to plant some seeds in one of my new window gardens but the directions on the package suggest to plant when the temperature is at 70 degrees of above. That leaves toady out, it is 58 degrees right now. It is raining, I think that will keep the temperature down for a while. I am going to put a couple of markers in the garden where the seeds will go and ready to plant on Monday. 

Other than that I plan on staying in working on photography related files. I need to make the display/portfolio calendars for June and close out the ones for April. Then I will order groceries for pickup tomorrow. 

The first upload for today is “from the car”. This was taken on a trip to a birthday party. The blue sky and clouds are outstanding. 

Sue just left to go Lancaster for a visit with her twin great granddaughters. They are out of school for the summer now. Them being out of school for a couple of months gives her more of a chance to see them. 

The interview for the piano player is today. I am eager to see how that goes. There was a coincidental happening related to that this morning. When I checked the church email as I do every day I found an email that said the lady had seen an old ad that we needed a piano player and wanted to know if we could contact her. She has a masters degree in music and use to be a choir director at a school. I forwarded the email to the three people on our personnel committee. We have been searching for a piano player for months. Now we have two possibles at the same time. 

The next upload it another of the “my choice” and another of my series of “peeling paint”. 

The word is back.  I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. Abraham Lincoln.  We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington.  Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau.  I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. St. Jerome.  Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. Horace.  Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. Marcus Aurelius.  I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll. He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. Thomas Fuller.  Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. Publilius Syrus.  The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William Makepeace Thackeray.  Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him. Moses. A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. Horace.  

The last upload is “socks”. A colorful pair would have been my first thought but I wear only white sock. I do wear “footies” that have a touch of color. 

Article: It seems like out state and city parks are adding new and exciting thing for visitors to see and experience. The title is “This Glass Bridge Lets You Float Above A Gorge, And It’s Right Here In Ohio”. This glass bridge is “a 137-foot-long sheet of glass, high above a gorge, watching a waterfall rush below your feet”. It is located at Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park. Also at this same location is a “Devil’s Icebox” (Devils Icebox is a small cave that has part of a creek inside), the Narrows, a Gold Hunters Cave, which goes back about 50 feet behind a cascade water fall. Some of these features are seen as giving off  “prehistoric vibes”. The new glass bridge/walkway “has a curvy “S” shape and ends just shy of the breathtaking Minnehaha Falls”. The article says “this isn’t just a cool photo op. It’s also about conservation.”. It allows breathtaking views as wee as protects the fragile landscape below. The bridge is made of structural glass and  galvanized and painted steel. It is designed to “stand out and blend in”. There are “wayfinding stations” throughout the park. These wayfinding stations also offers facts about the park.

This is DoorDash/GrubHub night for dinner. 

Joy

                         closed for business

 May 28, 2025 a thought for today, Guard your mouth as though it were a vase, and guard your thoughts as you would a city wall. Chinese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “my choice”, one of my “partial” series.  My vintage brass “wedding” vase (made in India) in front of the wall mirror. 

The next upload was “money”. This one made me a little nervous. When I was a kid I was told never photograph money.  

The last upload was “something square”. This is another of the granny square pouches I crocheted.

Life today. Here is a bit more about the piano player situation in my life. It all looked like an awesome idea. However, it may being turned in a direction I hadn’t thought necessary for a few reasons. There will be an interview meeting Friday. I am concerned that she is going to be asked to do more than I had expected when I approached her with the suggestion of joining us as the piano player for our Sunday morning services. I have worried myself about it to the point of thinking that it may be more of a problem for her. I felt protective of her but that’s what interviews are for.  LGLG.

Yesterday was full of emotion. One of my memories was brought to the surface. There was a piece on television about a challenged young man who ended up writing a book that sold several copies. It was about his relationship with his mother. When she was asked about it she said something like  “he has shown and given me something most can’t give”  by just existing. I felt it in my heart because I had that kind of son also. He was my angel unaware. The tears and memories flowed. And the day went on.

The first upload for today is “my happy place” . I actually have many “happy” places. There are three spaces in my home that are “comfortable, feeling safe, often used”. This is one that is probably used for the most number of hours in the day. 

Last night we had a “gathering” here at my house to celebrate my other son’s birthday. There were just five of us. For me it brought back 61 years ago when a new born babe was placed in my arms. And look a him now. 

I have mentioned my two sons and feel I want to mention my other treasured “child”. She comforted me in one of my most sad, frightening and lonely parts of life. Though there have been some tough times she is still here when I call. 

Brian came by earlier, just as I like it, and did the lawn work, just as I like it. 

Now I have to get ready to head out to food pantry. 

The second upload was another “my choice” and another of my “partial” series. My digital mouse. 

The word is accomplish.  Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light. Vitruvius.  Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. Giorgio Vasari. There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. Sitting Bull.  Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo.  A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished. Antonie van Leeuwenho.  A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. George Henry Lewes.  One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? Francis Cabot Lowell.  Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle.  Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. Saint Augustine.  

The last upload is “look down”. This one is, in many cases, a regular occurrence of technology cabling and wires tangled on the floor. Wifi and blue tooth are helping to solve this situation.  

Article: So here is something else involving an icon in Columbus. It feels good to know and see so many of the things that Columbus offers for so many. The title is “LEGO Goes Wild At Franklin Park Conservatory This Summer”. This display is a place to see “larger-than-life sculptures made entirely from LEGO bricks to the lush gardens of one of the city’s most iconic destinations”. This exhibit will be there until September 7. It is on an award-winning global tour of that “blends art, nature, and conservation into a vibrant, family-friendly experience”. It is a project of an acclaimed New York artist. He turns the LEGOs into animals, flowers and “ecosystems”. He intends for it to be a relationship with nature.  During the exhibition there is a space where kids, and adults, can “channel their inner architect with endless opportunities for hands-on creativity”. In fact from July 18-21 there will be a “the Conservatory’s first-ever building block competition”. There will be a “Brick Nights” series of challenges with themed events. 

Maybe creamed chicken on biscuits or scrambled eggs and toast for dinner. 

Joy 

                                        ivy covered

 May 26, 2025, a thought for today, There are no secrets or mysteries, there is only common sense. Native American  Onondaga Proverb

My first photo challenge for yesterday was “calm”. I couldn’t think of much that could be more calm than nature. The closest I had for this image of quiet, trees, greenery and its calm was the park. 

The second challenge for yesterday was “peas”. The only ones we had handy in the house were the frozen verity. 

The last upload for yesterday was “underneath”. This is one of Sweet Pea’s napping spots. It is close to me as I work on the computer and a hidey-hole from disturbances. 

Life today. We have been looking for a piano player for our church services. The one we have had most recently was a music major at Otterbein University.  He just graduated and is moving on. On Wednesday at our Food Pantry one of our visitors asked if she could play the piano that sits in our check-in room. Of course we said yes. The sound was, to me, angelic. She was playing by ear. We asked her if she could read music. She said yes. We showed her one of our hymnals and asked if she could play from that. She said yes.  We asked if she would like to play for us. She said yes. We were excited. We passed her name and number on to our personnel committee. We found out yesterday they have an appointment with her this week. It seems we have Someone looking out for us and for her as well. 

The message yesterday at church was another that was about as near perfect as one could be. Only one thing bothered me some. The three hymns he had chosen were a near seamless fit to the message. One more than the others. The sermon was titled “When God Made the Wind and Waves”. The final hymn was called “Lonely the Boat” by Helen Kim. The problem for me was that we were told at the last minute we were singing only the first two versus. I read the other three. The words of the third and fifth verses fit the message like a glove. Most of the hymns chosen for our services don’t often totally fit the message that they were chosen to accompany. This one did. The man who gave this message seems to know how to pick them to fit like falling into place, extending the message with our accompaniment. To bad it was cut short.

The first upload for today is “in my hand”. That isn’t my hand so it is in ‘her’ hand. It is a chocolate cookie with chocolate chips. The hand belongs to one of our twins.

I had another uplifting surprise yesterday. One of my granddaughter-in-laws dropped by for a quick visit. She lives out of state so I don’t see her very often, maybe twice, if that, in a year.

I have gotten a lot of little things done today. One, of course, was the bulletin, part of it. I also got Sunday School information uploaded to Instagram and Facebook. I got Sweet Pea’s meat mixture cooked, some dishes in the sink cleared away and three of my “senior” gardens tended to. The hydroponic garden needs refreshed once every two week. The window gardens need water and tidied as needed. 

The weather is and has been for a couple of days on the chilly side. This years weather has been strange both the past winter and this early spring. It’s interesting, educational and a wonder. 

The next upload at “my choice”. It is another of my series of “partials” showing only part of the street corner.

The word is authority.  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Leonardo da Vinci.  Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. Francis Bacon.  It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. Thomas Hobbes.  Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. John Adams. Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. Thomas Jefferson.  The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion. John Wycliffe.  The man whose authority is recent is always stern. Aeschylus.  The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft.  I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. Thomas Jefferson.  

The last challenge upload was “funny”. This is my sister as she was about to sneeze as Sweet Pea is watching and waiting to see (why the tissue) and when. 

Article: It’s interesting to learn about people that come from our state who have made a name for themselves. Here’s one about Annie Oakley. The title, “How Ohio’s Own Annie Oakley Became America’s First Female Superstar”. It opened with saying that she was “a pint-sized powerhouse with a gun, whose aim was as sharp as her wit”. She was born in 1860 in Darke County Ohio. It also mentioned that she “learned to shoot out of necessity”. Her story is that she had to help support her “impoverished” family “by hunting game for the local grocer”. She eventually “transitioned from survival shooting to showbiz”. She began earning an income with her “prowess” in shooting.  Soon she participated in a shooting match against a “traveling-show marksman Frank E. Butler, whom she later married”. Together they joined Buffalo Bill in his Wild West shows. As part of her act she shot apples off her dog’s head. She put out lit candles with a bullet. She could split a playing card “edge-on”, as it was falling to the ground she shot a hole in the card. She used a .22 rifle at 90 feet. With Buffalo Bill’s show she traveled the world. Not only was she a sharp shooter with her accomplishments she “empowered” women. Her success inspired books, movies and “even a Broadway musical”. There is now an Annie Oakley Festival in Greenville, Ohio.

May be sloppy joe or taco salad for dinner. 

Joy

                                            symbol of farm life

 May 24, 2025 a thought for today, Be kind to everything that lives. Native American Omaha Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “t is for....” tomato. I was caught in the striking color of red on black when I was ready to upload this one. 

The next upload challenge was “flower”. My outdoor flowers for the early
spring have passed their bloom but I saw this one at my neighbors house. 

The last on for yesterday was “my choice”. This one is from my series of “partials”. It is one of the solar wind chimes my daughter gave me. The blue sky and white clouds add to the image. 

Life today. Yesterday I met Dorothy at the church to finish the newsletter. It’s always nice to get back with Dorothy and our little “gab” sessions. We are close to the same age and “station in life” so our thoughts and memories reflect together. We only see each other once a month. She was recovering from an accident for several months.....I missed her. 

The rest of the day was full of lots of small catchup work with back burner things and small clean up tasks around the house. 

Here is a nice quiet and comfy Saturday morning and one where I don’t have much planned. I may even have some time for day dreaming.

The first upload for today is “music”. I felt this one should be my choice today. I was in the car waiting at a traffic light when I got the ides of using it. 

There is the grocery pick up and put away.  While Sweet Pea and I were out and about for that Saturday chore we were on the look out for photo challenges. We captured two of them. When I got home and had the groceries inside I got to my darkroom (Photoshop). Everything was sized and uploaded then “filed” to the calendar and archives.      

The second upload for today is “a flock of birds or animals”. I don’t have the opportunity to see “flocks” of wildlife very often. But when I do I capture the image. This one is from my archives. 

The word is attempt.  What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh.  Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare.  Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. William Carey.  Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. Phaedrus.  Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. Thomas Hood.  Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. William Tecumseh Sherman.  I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. Ovid.  A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. Abraham Lincoln.  It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. Quintilian.  The attempt and not the deed confounds us. William Shakespeare. Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. Ovid.  Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. John Henry Newman.  

The last upload today is “doorway”. I shot this one at the back of some businesses.  

Article: I wasn’t sure when I was drawn to the title exactly what this article was going to delve into. The title is “From furry friends to fish, turning up the heat helps animals fight germs − how Mother Nature’s cure offers humans a lesson on fever”. It started about by asking why do people get fevers? Then says that it is a “misconception that pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2 or the flu, cause fevers”. It goes on to describe the purpose of fevers. Pathogens do cause fevers but “only indirectly”. When the body detects “harmful microbes” the temperature raises to “create a hostile environment”. It goes on to talk about fever’s in animals and so called “simple creatures,” such as lizards, fish and insects” whose systems use fever to recover from illnesses. When the body senses a pathogen it raises the temperature which then “muscles contract, causing shivers, and blood vessels constrict to retain heat”. I re-learned that all mammals can develop fevers. Signs in the lower mammals may be loss of appetite, be lethargic, even my shiver. It goes on to describe how “cold-blooded animals” count on environmental warmth. For instance lizards move to warmer spots when they are sick. Another example is Zebra fish who move to warmer water when ill. Even insects are affected to temperature. An interesting part of the article was the mention that honeybees are “among the most sophisticated”. They can keep the temperature in their hives by “contracting flight muscles and cool it by fanning wings” or somehow by “spreading water on the comb to induce evaporative cooling”.  It mentions that fevers can reach dangerous levels where it is necessary to seek medical help. According to the article “evolution has favored the fever response”. Moving back to fevers in humans the article relates that “instinct is often to bring it down” by aspirin and cold compresses. It goes on to say the mild to moderate fevers often help more than they hurt. The article ended with “all these organisms faced the same challenge − infection − and arrived at the same solution: fever.”

I think it will be homburgs and potato salad for dinner. 

Joy

                                our town

 May 22, 2025 a thought for today, There is no fear where there is faith. Native American Kiowa Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “yellow”. This is one of the flowers in one of my “new” window gardens. My yellow begonia. It is the only one that came to me in full bloom. 

The next upload was “kite”. I haven’t had a kite in the house since my kids were kids.....forty plus years ago. So I made this one with my amateur origami. 

The last upload yesterday was another of the “my choice” one from my clouds series. Today’s clouds were not the fluffy white that are around on sunny days. They still offer beauty and mystery in their forms

Life today. I had a different start to this Thursday than others. I had an early morning doctor appointment. It was just my usual six month check up. This one had a bit of a change also. My doctor is moving on to a different location. It is further than I would like to drive. So it looks like I will be getting a new doctor. As I was leaving and checked out with a next appointment. The lady told me this new doctor is one of the best at this location. Now I am anxious to meet her. 

That appointment made it later for me to get to the church to do the printing. One thing that was good was that the computer booted up much quicker than it has been doing. So I was done and on my way before the mail pick up at 11:00. 

The first upload for today is “something tiny”. I found this one as I was cruising in my archives. He or she was a busy little creature wanting a task of this biscuit. 

I had a few other things on my to-do list here at home. I got the last two of the plants that I have ordered for my two new “gardens”. I didn’t realize at the time of the order one of the plants I ordered earlier was seeds that shouldn’t be planted until September. Everything else is now planted.  I planted them after I got the laundry started. Next on the to-do list was the air fryer basket. I have been putting off giving it a good cleaning so I got that accomplished this morning too. 

I had to use the photos a day from the archives. Two of them were just a couple of days ago so I think of them of current captures. 

We are having still more rain. Along with it comes a pretty quick drop in temperature. It is enough of a drop to require a sweat shirt instead of short sleeves. 

The next upload today is another of the “my choice”. This is the first in this series of “partials”. It was shot by accident when I laid my Samsung on the table while the camera was on. I didn’t know it was even there until I reviewed the photos. It was taken a the birthday party in Zanesville. 

The word is appear.  It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. Hosea Ballou.  We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading. Robert Greene.  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake.  The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates.  Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison.  Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Edwin Hubbel Chapin.  I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. Montesquieu.  The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. John Quincy Adams.  When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. Ramakrishna. Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Moliere.  There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right. Terence.

The last upload is “opposites”. I like the differences in the rocks and the green plants, soft and hard both beauties in nature. Also taken at the birthday party in Zanesville. 

Article: I thought it would be nice to pass on these statistics that I heard about Columbus. Title: Columbus Just Made The List Of The World’s Happiest Cities. Columbus is #63 out of hundreds of world wide cities. There is something called the “Happy City Index”. According to the article Columbus is “ranked above Lisbon, Sydney, and even Rome”. The Happy City Index “evaluates cities based on key factors like governance, environment, economy, health, mobility”. A part of the evaluation covers how peoples lives are made better by these “elements”. These “elements” include readily available green spaces, good leadership, “walkable neighborhoods, and reliable public services. Columbus scored a total of 771 points.  The “points” are counted by measuring such things as number of citizens, the city governance, environment, economy, health and mobility. One of our high points was the “environment score”. They suggested that this is due to our “strides with green initiatives”. We have also expanded our trail systems. It mentions that we are becoming “more sustainable and resilient”. As far as the mobility part of the score there have been “major investments” in our mobility sector with COTA improvements as well as considering better bike “infrastructure”. Another aspect is the people, “from students and young professionals to families and retirees” that shows “a city that works for all kinds of happy”. 

Spaghetti and meat balls for dinner. 

Joy 

                                                this is an alleyway in downtown Columbus 

 May 20, 2025 a thought for today, Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. Arapaho and Cherokee Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “my choice”, another of my “clouds” series. 

The next upload was “textures”. I see a lot of texture in the rock as well as in the greenery. 

The last upload for yesterday was “my shoes today”. They weren’t actually for today but are ready for any day that I need them for dress up.

Life today. The bulletin it done and sent out. The newsletter is done. Tomorrow I will do the envelopes and labels. Things will be ready for printing on Thursday. I have to start on it later than usual on Thursday since I have a early morning doctors appointment first. 

Today is a food pantry day so I was glad to put finishing touches on things before I get ready to leave for church. 

....Back from pantry. It was a day at pantry where everything went perfectly. The check-in was smooth and quick and the trip through the grocery room went well too. Not to mention that we had almost our limit on visitors too.

The first upload for today is “something loud”. I think truck can be loud particularly when they need to honk the horn. 

We have been having a mild sprinkling of rain kind of day. There were no storms just gray clouds and drips of rain. 

The rain sometimes slows down my photo choices so I used the archives. Today I was able to get one of the images on my way home. 

The next upload is another of the “my choice” as well as another of the clouds series. 

The word is also. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac.  What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. Julius Caesar.  Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates.  The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs.  Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. James Madison.  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.  If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. Saint Augustine.  Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord. Saint Ignatius.  Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine.  People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  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.  Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aurelius.  I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot.  Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. Joseph Addison.  Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Plutarch.  

Next for today is an upload for “architecture”. This is an elementary school that has been a fixture of the westside for many years and has recently been closed. 

Article: This sounds like an interesting process 3D printing for medical purposes. Awesome. The human body part made from a 3D printer can make like more comfortable for many people. These parts can be customized for the particular needs of each individual person. Prophetic limbs can be tailored and fitted with adaptable control systems to every need. There is an affordability to them also. Computer-aided design software is “transferred to a 3D printer and constructed layer by layer”. The article touched on this statement: “rapidly evolving technology provides new options not just for prosthetics but for implants, surgical planning, drug manufacturing and other health care needs”. The printers have the ability to use a “wide range of materials”. I hadn’t paid much attention to possible news articles so learned here that “printing in health care started in the 1980s”. Computer controlled laser beams “solidify liquid material to specified 3D shapes”. The first experiments were to create structures that “support cell growth” as replacement bladders as one of the “durable body parts”.  In 2013 the first “3D-bioprinted liver tissue” was generated that could lead to creating organs and tissues for transplanting. Prosthetics at affordable prices have already been created in custom-made “devices”. Hip and replacements and spine implants a precise fits are already being used, even facial implants after accidents are possible. The article went on to say that researchers are developing 4D printing which will allow for “objects that can change shape over time” as the body needs. All of this technology can lead to shorter operating times and fewer complications as well as lower costs. I learned that even medications are being aided in the 3D arena they can be controlled as to dosages and “delivery systems”. The article did want to state that in 3D printing for health care there are still “challenges and opportunities” that  remain. It mentions that even AI may combine with the 3D processes. (That one worries me personally.) 

This is one of the days I have a fourth upload this one is “leading line”. I like the curve in this sidewalk. It seems to be a more relaxed kind of leading line. 

It is going to be something from the freezer for dinner. 

Joy

                                                        a typical parking sight in a mall

 May 18, 2025 a thought for today, There is never a valid reason for arguing. Native American Hopi Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “the beauty in simplicity”. As I was observing the kids at the birthday party I was observing other things around me. This is one of the flowers I spotted. It seemed to fit the challenge perfectly. 

The next upload was “crayons”. I found this one again when I was at the birthday party. It was int heir home school room. Another prefect fit for my challenge.

 The last upload for yesterday was “morning light”. I wanted to get a start on the photo for yesterday before we left for the party and the sun was full up when I got up so didn’t fit my expectations. So this one is from my archives. 

Life today. We went to a birthday party yesterday. It was a wonderful day. There were a couple of people not there that I would like to have seen but I will see them another time. All the kids there had a great time, almost non-stop movement. Drew got lots of interesting and exciting gifts. His energy and excitement were endless. It’s always good to get a boost like that even though for the most part it’s observation for me. That’s enough to last till next time...the memories will hold me over. 

Today the fellowship at church was another high point in the week end for me. Another memory to carry me through the week. I needed the connection and the surroundings of the sanctuary to wrap around me to help with a problem in my thinking that I am trying to solve. I need His direction. I have it every minute of everyday but those surrounding give it a bit of a stronger boost.

Today’s first upload is “on the table”. I try to find captures of time and space in most places that I go. This habit has grown in me as photography and its way of “Journaling” life have developed over the years. This one was taken at my church. 

Being Sunday and as my usual custom I have a short to-do list. I received four of my window garden flowers to plant so I did that when I got home from church. I don’t really think of that as “work”. It is comforting and in touch with Gods nature. So far the plants in the full sun window seem to be struggling. I hope they take hold. I may have to make some adjustments down the line with the particular plants I use in each location. Right now it is a learning process, a fun one at that. It make take a year long lesson to see what works each season. 

The weather is cooler today than the last few. There are more clouds today. Oh, speaking of clouds, the clouds on our trip to Zanesville yesterday were awesome both going and coming. If we get some rain I hope it will be gentle for my struggling window plants. 

The next upload is “industrial”. This is also in my archives of memories and time.

The word is afraid.  I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great.  I am not afraid... I was born to do this. Joan of Arc.  I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott. There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. Soren Kierkegaard.  Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. Blaise Pascal.  If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. William Wilberforce.  That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. Edgar Allan Poe.  A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Abraham Lincoln.  We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him. Aristotle.  He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt.  I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. Saint Teresa of Avila.  Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. Plato.  

The last up load is a simple one and one found almost everywhere “grass”. The lady next door was doing some yard work as I was looking for this photo challenge. I think it would have been more artistic had I taken a photo of her work. This one could become an overlay for another photo with the appropriate image. 

Article: I thought we needed a bit of art information. I guess the visit to the Art Museum here in Columbus a few weeks ago along with art being the universal language in both time and space brought this on. The title is: “Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast”. It was written by a professor of Anthropology. The story starts with telling about a date in 1980 when a group of “cavers” took a trip in south Tennessee. To get to their destination they traveled “a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the cave wall, trudged through the stream itself, ducked through another keyhole and climbed more mud”. They finally got to a dryer passage into the cave’s “dark zone”, a space where there is no external light. As they moved on they saw “lines and figures traced into remnant mud banks laid down long ago when the stream flowed at this higher level”. I noted that it was mentioned in the article that no “modern or historic graffiti marred the surfaces”. In it’s place were images of animals, people and “transformational characters”.  The author of the article mentions that these works are among the most “compelling of all artifacts from the human past”. These pieces of ancient art “speak to us from deep in time”. The cave that started this article was the first ancient cave art in North America. After that dozens more have been found in the Southeast. From these discoveries it was learned when the cave art first appeared in the area. Along with that part of the discoveries it could be determined how frequently it was produced and what it “might” have been used for. As part of the experience the explores have learned more from living descendants of the original art makers. These descendants are “present-day Native American peoples of the Southeast”. It is learned from these people what the cave art means and how important it was. Before the discovery in 1980 the first in the world’s cave art was found in 1879 in Spain. The article says that the “earliest expressions of human creativity, some perhaps 40,000 years old, European paleolithic cave art is now justifiably famous worldwide”. The site of the 1980 find is called Mud Glyph Cave. One expert has determined that some archaeological work from the Mississippian culture would be 800 years old. It showed “characteristic of ancient Native American religious beliefs”. To date there have been 92 dark-zone cave art sites in “Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia”. Further on in the article it is mentioned that the “oldest cave art sites date to some 6,500 years ago, during the Archaic Period (10,000-1000 B.C.)”. In conclusion surveys continue, one was found in 2021.....I found this description in Google: (Cave art could have various meanings, from religious and ceremonial practices to communication and even potentially serving as a form of early writing. It was important because it offers a window into the lives and beliefs of early humans, demonstrating their symbolic thinking and capacity for artistic expression.)

Either Pasta Fagioli or creamed chicken on biscuits for dinner. 

Joy 

                      once on the downtown Scioto River