October 13, 2025 a thought for today, Keep not two tongues in one mouth. Danish Proverb

Photo from my life yesterday

The first upload for yesterday was “peaceful”. This is an image from a park a couple of blocks from my house. I use is often for photos and for relaxation. 

The next photo was “fall ponds or foliage”. This is a neighbors tree. So far we
aren’t getting much color in the trees this fall due to earlier weather conditions.

The last upload for yesterday was “my choice”. I was from my series of “touch of color. Most of my photos like these are captured at the grocery store parking lot. 

Life today. My Monday agenda is still on track. I got the bulletin done to the point of waiting for information part. Then I moved on to this letter and deciding what photos I needed for todays uploads. 

I cleaned kitty litter, it brought back the memory of when I had cats many years ago. Then ran the sweeper in my room. 

There was a break in there somewhere for Bobbi’s eye treatment. As I have mentioned before it is a learning experience and getting a little less of a hassle.

I have the bi-weekly care of my indoor houseplant garden mostly the hydroponic today. 

With the incident of the theft from my garage there are three of us here in the neighborhood looking for someone to do lawn maintenance. We hope to help each other out by anything any of us may come up with in finding a new person. 

So far the autumn weather is holding up with it’s natural sunny days and color along with the slowly decrease in temperature. We will most likely still experience what some are now calling a “second summer” a brief few days of summer like temperatures before autumn is here full force. 

The word today is labor.  The end of labor is to gain leisure. Aristotle. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius.  Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. George Washington. Without labor nothing prospers. Sophocles.  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.  Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster.  The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. Philip Sidney.  I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. Saint Augustine.  Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joseph Joubert.  If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo.  Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. Quintilian.  Honest labor bears a lovely face. Thomas Dekker.  A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Thomas Jefferson.  

Article: A note: this article was written by a person of the highest honor in the study of art at the University of Edinburgh in answer to a child’s question, “who invented art?”  The article opens with “what is art?” Then explains the art is something of how people share ideas and feelings. Cave painting seem to be the first forms of art. The author says the people who made that art then felt a difference in its use. Some back then may have felt them to be magic not just for fun and decoration. Some of the first cave art discovered was created over 10,000 years ago. That art was made with crushed rocks and drawn on case walls.  The article mentioned that because artistes used their hands in there art they were thought of as workers or craftspeople. Aristotle, “a Greek thinker”, felt that acting was a form of art also. I learned from the article that in the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe “ art was mostly connected to the church, and was made to help people feel closer to God”. In the 15th and 16th centuries the Renaissance happened in Europe and artists were then seen as “creators, not just craftsmen”. Eventually art was “divided into two groups”. One called “fine arts” for the ideas and emotions. Another form called “decorative arts”, for making something decorative and useful. In the 19th century artists focused on making handmade things instead of factory made things. In 1914 there was a man who made art out of ordinary things making art something other than painting and drawing but it was about ideas. The article related that today art is used to promote issues and to make people think. In that regard it isn’t so much different than that of the  cave dwellers. In answer to the question from the beginning of the article “who invented art?” the article ended with “Humankind invented art – from the moment we were able to trace a pattern in the sand, or transfer a simple idea to the wall of a cave.” I personally share this outlook on all creations of art: Art's universal appeal transcends boundaries of language and culture, speaking to the common human experience and providing a shared way for people from all walks of life to connect. Art is important because it fosters self-expression, creativity, and emotional well-being for individuals, while for society, it serves as a cultural reflection, a means of communication. I hope this show in my photography.

Hot dogs and shredded fried potatoes for this nights dinner. 

Photos from my life today

The first upload today is “nuts”. I have this can of peanuts that lately doesn’t seem to be used a lot. They still taste good tough, I just had to sample before this shot. 

The next photo upload another of “my choice” and is one of my series of “minimalist”. This is one of the miniature roses from one of my four “senior” window gardens.

The last photo challenge upload for today is “a snack”. Actually it is the start of
a tuna salad sandwich for lunch. I like diced grapes and diced apples added. I found I liked this kind of tuna salad in a restaurant while on a training conference in Cape Cod several years ago.  

Joy

bonus art image created from my photo of the front end of a green jeep