July 21, 2025 a thought for today, Man has a thousand schemes Heaven has but one. Chinese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “lazy or relaxed days”. This was taken when they were working on my new deck. This was on of the rest periods. 

The next upload is “windows and/or doors”. This is from my archives taken at a
time when I worked downtown. 

The next shot was taken on the same day as the work on the deck. This one is titled “worn”. It represents both worn clothing and worn working.

Life today. Though most of my family don’t plan to “work” on Sundays if they can help it, we did yesterday. The top of the deck is finished but the steps aren’t. Sweet Pea couldn’t be just “open the door” and let out, (we have a fenced in yard). So Tami, Lowell and Andy came to put a temporary set of steps in for her. At first she jumped off where were no steps and fell on her face. Then I coaxed her to go down the steps. She does that now but seems confused to try to come up them. I coax and coaxed until nada. Then I get the leash and collar and lead her up... that works. Still no amount of coaxing will get her up. I think a “crew” of family and friends will be here to finish the steps Tuesday. I am getting 5000 steps a day, and aching leg, with this added walking. They say exercise is good

The last upload for yesterday was “door”. As is pretty obvious it is a door on a delivery truck. I like all the bolts and knobs and line and shape. 

Wow, what a Monday. Unlike most. It started out that I had to pick up my glasses. I had the exam appointment about two weeks ago, the glasses were ready Friday but I wanted to be here for the start on the new deck. After the eye doctor stop I went to Kroger to pick up a refill on meds and a couple of other things. When I go in the store I see things that I miss on the online list for curbside pick up. 

When I got back home I started on the bulletin. I had trouble getting the information I need for parts of it from my usual source. Maybe they don’t do the web anymore. So I looked for and found a new source but not as happy for it as the other. 

The first upload for today is “my choice”. This one is from a series of “faceless portraits. I find most of my “models” for these kinds of photos in shopping malls. 

I had a long list of things for today but most of them will be going to the back burner for tomorrow. Some days there is just not enough hours in the day. Another thing that was a little different today is that my sister and I took some time to have longer conversations than we usually do. 

It was also back to the up the steps exercises with Sweet Pea again. 

The next upload is “out the window”. I chose to use one from out my car window

for this one. I am leaving the Kroger parking lot.

The word today is end.  One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato.  Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Seneca.  I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln.  The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke.  To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Samuel Johnson.  The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach.  There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Francis Drake.  The end of labor is to gain leisure. Aristotle.  To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson.  We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal.  When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. Tecumseh.  We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli.  If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. William Law.   Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine.  To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

The last upload for today is “letters”. I took a few shots for this one. I used “letters” as mail and I took some photos of statues of alphabet letters at the park. 

Article: I think this place in Columbus is in the “news”, PR and otherwise, right now because it was used last week as part of the Columbus Library Book Festival. The library set up tents on the lawns of the Tipperary Garden as only part of the festival with the rest in the main library, right next door, also loaded with things to see and do. I visited the garden several times in search of photos several years ago. I think it has even more “statues” made of nature now, or more than I remember. The article is titled “Discover The Whimsical World Of Topiary Park”. The article starts out saying how this park is an “overlooked gem” with “unique blend of art, history, and nature”. It goes on to explain that the “serene landscape” features sculpted topiaries that are meant to “recreate a scene” from a painting called A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat. The sculptures are figures in a “living, breathing masterpiece”. There are “54 human figures, three boats, a monkey, and dogs—all shaped from yew trees”. This garden began to take shape in 1988 and completed in 1992 about the same time as the  “biggest horticultural event to ever take place in Columbus: AmeriFlora”. Walking through the park you will see new perspectives.  Every season there is a “new palette of color”. The article goes on to say that “art lovers, history buffs, and nature enthusiasts converge” and photographers too.  It is a good place to sit a read or visit the Main Library that is right next door. 

Dinner will be from the freezer for tonight. 

Joy

                                            From our theater group