March 6, 2026. A thought for today, He who grasps too much lets much fall. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

The first challenge yesterday was “oil and water.” I decided to add some green food coloring to give the finished image a bit of color. I was happy to see the hue of yellow oil on top of the green water.

The next assignment was “to close for comfort.” I pulled into the park to give
this shot some thought. Many things came to mind. Then this one came to mind. I decided to try it when I got home. I’m had to get out of the car to make sure I had some space before I got back in the car and turned off the engine. 

The third image I uploaded is “a bottle.” I had this image of two bottles in a collection I use to have. I decided to use it for this challenge.

The last upload was “friends.” This angry bird toy was one of Sweet Pea’s
favorites. We couldn’t find it one day, we looked everywhere. I ordered another one for her. The day later we found the old one behind some hard to move furniture. 

Life today. For the longest time I didn’t understand what a hidden “Easter egg” meant in written material. Now I know. Sometimes when I reread some of my own writings, I think I spot one here and there not only in all the sections of written and shared material but in photos also. Some are intentional but most are otherwise.

It has been a happy and productive day. First the usual morning visits to the internet, news, email, face book. Then I made a detour to work on the annual report. I received an addition that I think is very important for folks to know about in a yearly report. It is about our Sunday School classes. The information was emailed to me last night, took me a few minutes to make the room in the template and entered it. Then I took some time to look for the appropriate photos to add to it. After that, I got the first step to the newsletter for April. Moving on I started the search for the information I like to include in my every-other day letters/blobs. I didn’t plan on going out to day so I had to either find images for photos here in the house or go to my archives. I’m so glad I keep an “archives.” I usually take extra shots on days I am finding chances for good photos for days like this when I need them to fit a specific challenge.   ,

Sue went to Lancaster to see one of the twins. So the house was “empty” except for me and “my shadow” named Bobbi. 

I did take a couple of breaks. One, to load the dish washer which meant clearing the frig too. Then there was kitty care. 

A while back I mentioned a “dream” project of mine that I want to keep to myself for a while. Anyway, I approached work on that project today too. It doesn’t get worked on every day in fact only when I have available “free” time so it is a slow process. Actually it is a multifaceted “dream” project, they are kind of connected. One day maybe one or better all will come to fruition. For the time being just dreams. 

It is gorgeous today with just a touch of overcast now and then. The temperature is 73 degrees. Perfect early spring. 

I am getting to “wordsy” here so I will end for the day. I have to do my online grocery order and my online still life class lecture for the day. 

The word today is set. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Lord Chesterfield. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato. Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace. John Dryden. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. Saint Francis de Sales. Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. Horace. The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. Confucius. The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato. Money alone sets all the world in motion. Publilius Syrus. Ignorance never settles a question. Benjamin Disraeli. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare. The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. Cicero. Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. John Locke. When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. Thomas Paine. Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. Bible, 1 King 18:44. 

Article summary. We are all born with the honor and gift of stewardship for all living things. That doesn’t mean it has to be on the physical level of care. Some of us are no-loner flexible enough to work when the need requires strength and mobility. But there is more than one way to make things happen given care and wisdom. This article talks about one of the times for a hand in stewardship. The title is How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone. Clare E. Boerigter, Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service. At theconersation.com. It started with noting figures about land in th US. It says there are 110 million acres with 806 protected in “federally designated wilderness.” It compared the size of those measurements to be “slightly larger than the state of California.” It goes on to relate that since with 1964 Wilderness Act they have been left alone. That act states that those areas are to be “untrammeled by man.” As article goes on it is touching on the subject that with climate change and other happening as time passes, age and technology changes things for the good and the not so good . It might be time now to reconsider what may and should be done for a growing Need of more attention and protection? They mentioned something I had not given much thought to, that many of those wilderness areas were for thousands of years watched over, cared for and tended to by Indigenous peoples. It is talking about the areas that are now legally to be “untrammeled by man,” with unknown and possible harmful effects taking place due to inattention. The harmful effects I am thinking about are the “new and unprecedented ecological stressors” taking place as the world moves on. The “indigenous”people tended to the nature of plants and all their life long surroundings by inherited instinct. In areas where indigenous nations still live and care for their space it is accomplished with “spiritual connections between people and the land.” Some are given the right to hunt and fish along with some other considerations like to place or not to place fences and the like. I learned at the end of the article that the Wilderness Act also said the land should be “protected and managed so as to preserve (they’re) natural conditions.” It seems that “careful actions could help protect these precious places for generations to come” as some have already been, proven for thousands of years by indigenous peoples. They were also born with that “honor and gift” that I mentioned and used it. It seems to me by poof in-the-pudding they have done that very thing with honor and respect.

I haven’t used doorcase for dinner recently.  I may do that this evening.

Photos in my life today

One of today’s uploads is “a street sign.” I took this one as I was coming out of the park. I liked the juxtaposition of the two one-way signs as well as a “street” sign of a different nature in the image as well. 

The next assigned upload is “friends.” These two seemed to be
enjoying each others company on a sunny day. 

The last upload for today is “team sport.” I don’t visit sports often. I do pass area where team sport take place. This one is in the park near my house. None of the “boys” were there using it at the time of day that I was there. 

Joy

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