October 21, 2025 a thought for today, Truth's cloak is often lined with lies. Danish Proverb

Photo a day uploads for yesterday

My first challenge upload is “a tradition”. I called this a tradition because it is a “tradition” for me to use is for many of my photos and for times to visit for  quiet and peace. 

The next upload is “picture(s)”. This is my photo wall. It is a will of photos of
all of my family. 

The next upload is “camera movement or motion blur”. For t his one I used a motion blur filter on an image of the pond and trees in the park. 

The fourth and last upload for yesterday was “my choice” and is from my series of “black and white” images. 

Life today. I had planned for yesterday to transplant three of my larger house plants. But I didn’t do the planning so well. I decided to hold off on it for a few days, at least until this week is over. One of the things that may have changed my mind was Bobbi. Sunday she had started playing with leaves off the Dragon Tree plant which is poison to cats and dogs if eaten. So I am going to have to find a way to “cage” it, the plant, or give it away. The other two plants may have to go also. They are of the fig family also poison to cats. I had made plans for Tami to come over to help with the plants. Since I had asked her to come Sue had said she would like for her to help with things in her room. So as it turned out Tami helped with that and put some outdoor tools away for me. 

Today I finished the bulletin and sent it for proofing. I got the letter started then had a bit of time before getting ready to go to food pantry. With about an hour before time to go I spent working on the newsletter. I have one page left to finish it. I may have to put a hold on it temporarily. I realized and got information that I will be doing a bulletin for a funeral service we will be having on Friday. Plus another day of pantry. 

Pantry moved slowly today but in the end we served a good number of families. 

I am finding I have “separation anxiety” in leaving Bobbi right now. I am sure that will pass as we get more familiar with each other and our individual habits. 

So far the weather is holding in a set of cooler temps. This morning seemed the temps were at the lowest they have been for a while. 

The word today is leave.  Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. Thomas Browne.  Be content to act, and leave the talking to others. Baltasar Gracian.  The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. Theodore Roosevelt.  Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. Thomas de Quincey.  O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. Walt Whitman.  Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.  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.  We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. Michel de Montaigne.  Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton.  When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Emily Bronte. Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. P. T. Barnum.

Article: This is another item that can be a learning tool for all for a child with easter eggs as in many articles about adult learning and advancements. The title is “Truth's cloak is often lined with lies.” It opens by sharing that “puzzles, gymnastics, writing and using maps” as they move all relying on the ability to visualize and is called mental rotation (the ability to mentally picture how an object would look if it were turned or rotated). The article mentioned in research in 2022 and 2023 young people would solve problems as adults when they use this mental rotation ability. A child would be shown a picture of a fire truck and two smaller pictures of the same truck positioned in different ways. No matter how they were rotated the two would never match the large truck in one method of looking at the image. Some saw the image in one way and others another way. In these tests they were able to track eye movement. It was determined that some of the children “broke the image down into pieces instead of visualizing the image as a whole, known as a piecemeal strategy”. Some looked at it another way. One of the things these tests could determine was to allow “researchers, teachers and parents understand why some children struggle with learning to read”. The children who broke it down into pieces instead of as a whole are the same children who have trouble seeing letter like p and q differently. The article said that children can be helped by teaching them to rotate real objects as toys and blocks. This helps them to “practice breaking down shapes” into pieces. The article also mentioned that is helps in designing activities and educational tools. The way I read it I believe they were saying that playing a game of Tetris may show adults how this theory works. 

I think we will have chili for dinner. 

Photo a day uploads for today

The first challenge upload for today is another of the “my choice” and another of my “black and white” series. 

The next upload for today is “wild or wildlife”. This pair were enjoying a walk
in the park. 

The last upload for today is “macro”. This if of course our new family member named Bobbi. 

Joy

this bonus art piece is a creation from an image of a hibiscus about to bloom. It was created before I ever heard of AI