October 27, 2025 a thought for today, Every day has its evening. Danish Proverb

Photo a Day uploads for yesterday

This first photo a day challenge upload for yesterday was “something joyful”. For me right now the “something joyful” was relaxing with my new best furry friend. Bobbi seemed to enjoy it as much as I did. 

The second upload for yesterday was “fence”. This is a double fence, my chain
link with morning glories growing on it and my neighbor’s beautiful privacy fence. 

The last upload for yesterday was “decorations” . Many folks in this neighborhood decorate in many ways for each holiday season. This is one of many of the less but tasteful kinds of scenes we see as we drive along the streets. 

Life today. The bulletin is done. Now I need to get it out to be proof read. I want to let it “rest” before I re-read it too. 

I have a couple of problems I am thinking over before making a decision. Both more or less involve Bobbi. In some ways it is like having a small child. I may need to have some pest control services and I don’t want to put her in any danger. Another is that I may need to get her to the vet to do a follow up on her eye problem. This is one of those days I am having a senior discomfort issue making it more difficult to focus. It will pass after a day or two or more of Tylenol every four hours.

After I got the bulletin done I started on the “research” portions of this letter. Those generally take an hour or so. Then I had to think about the photo challenges for the day. 

 The weather is on a woe-is-me sort of day, not very smile inspiring.  It’s cloudy and on the cool side. The week end itself was mostly on the sad side too, one that is still on my mind.  So all in all this could be a better day.

The word is length.  It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne.  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 of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. John Locke.  There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. Lewis Carroll.  The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau.  Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Thomas Carlyle.  We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. Aristotle.  Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? Aeschylus.  The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. Leonardo da Vinci.  Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. Thomas Carlyle.  The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance. Thomas More.  The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me. Saint Augustine.  

Article: The house in this article seems to have it all, everything we think of when we think Halloween. This one is local. I imagine there are more like it all around the country during this holiday season. The article title is “This Charming Victorian Home in OTE Is Peak Halloween Vibes”. The house has a name,  the A.J. Soseby House. What brings it to the forefront right now is “the most incredible Halloween decor”.  There seems to be every kind of icon we note as Halloween in nature. There are broomsticks hanging on the porch, window and a fence. There are pumpkins arranged on the porch. As the article mentioned the architecture of the house seems to automatically lend itself to sights and thoughts of Halloween. The article called it “spooky, yet irresistibly adorable”. The house was built in 1895 in the Victorian style. In 2018 the house was bought by the last of many families. The present owner added new life “balancing its rich, old-school elegance with a quirky, fun energy”. It seems this historic neighborhood itself is in step with decorations as classic cobwebs and all the other holiday decorations and activity for trick or treat night. The city block is closed to traffic making it safe for the “beggars”.

I think I have tuna casserole in the freezer for dinner. 

Photo a day uploads for today

My first upload today is “moon”. I am not normally awake when the moon shines. However, every now and then I for one reason or another I may be awake enough to pop outside when there is a moon showing itself way up there. 

The next upload is “my choice”. It is one of my series of “black and white”. This one shows my new decking material (it's really a beautiful silver color) with a fallen leaf in the glory and draw of a black and white image.

The last upload for today is “stillness in nature”. I feel that is one of natures major natural draws of attention, stillness. This one is of one of my miniature rose bushes.  It is almost one of the last roses of summer this year. 

Joy

a bonus art image created (not AI) from my original photo of the back side of the replica of Santa Maria docked for a time in Columbus Ohio