May 12, 2022 a thought for today, Lying is the disease and truth is the cure. Arabic Proverb

This is the usual bulletin printing morning. It wasn’t the usual “just me and Chris” in the church though. There were plumbers there working on a stopped up drain and our food pantry delivery was today with a huge load of food for our clients. Lots of activity. 

The photo of the day for May 11 was “something small”. I remembered some tiny little violets growing in the lawn with the dandelions. When I went out looking of them they had been mowed away but I found this tiny yellow weed flower that worked for the image.  

I treated Chris to a couple of White Castles again for all his trips picking me up and bringing me home while I wait to find the car that is out there waiting for me at my maximum price figure.... not so easy to find with my required options. All of this includes the hopes of hearing from the insurance company...that, after some further consideration of the facts of the matter, they may have seen a the normal “other” (and more factual) side to the story. This is a most likely a surreal happening, but I can hope. 

For my photo group in Canada I chose this one that I took at the historical village, a lone chair sitting with a delicate curtain at the window in the background. 

Once I got home, I started the laundry.....another of my typical Thursday chores. I am going to talk to a lady this afternoon about doing a couple of cleaning chores for me that my age has caused a decline in my capabilities. We’ll see if it is worth the cost after an estimate. I would like to get the laundry as close to done as I can and get some dinner supplies laid out. Soooo....back to work. 

The photo a day for today is “in nature”. I found this lonely daffodil with it’s natural shadow against the side of the garage.

Todays word(s), try/trials.  Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of, Charles Spurgeon. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things, Henry Ward Beecher.  Adversity is the first path to truth, Lord Byron. In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many, Charles Spurgeon. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment, Henry David Thoreau. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle.  By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. Lao Tzu.  All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte. Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Saint Francis de Sales. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine, Saint Augustine. Hug the shore; let others try the deep. Virgil. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau. I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette. It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

This one for my Canada group for today. I found the little fellow enjoying the solitude of the river. This one is from my archives. I made this image as I was walking across the Broad Street bridge from
parking my car at the Vets Memorial building to my job at the Federal Court Building just shortly before I retired. 

Here is some more history about Columbus and its people. This one is about the name “McDowell”. There is a street in Columbus called McDowell Street, one of the longest in Franklinton. Several McDowll’s lived in Columbus some were famous some not so much. One called John rode with William Henry Harrison in Canada in defeating the British. Another named Abram who marched with John Campbell who fought in the dead of winter and burned Native American villages in Indiana. Abram had a son named Irvin who was the most famous of the McDowells. The family moved from Franlinton across the river to the new state capital Columbus. The family lived in a huge home at Spring and Front streets. Abram was the 15th mayor of Columbus. The McDowell children went to private schools in Columbus.  Irvin was sent to college in Troyes, France. From there he went  to West Point and graduated as a second lieutenant. Next he became a tactics instructor then a Major. Eventually he was promoted to Brigadier General. Eventually he served in a variety of commands and became the commander of the Department of the Pacific. He designed a military facility at the Presido in San Francisco. 

I think it is going to be hot dogs/coney’s  and mac and cheese for dinner tonight.  

Joy

 

 May 10, 2022 a thought for today, It may be a fire today, but tomorrow it will be only ashes. Arabic Proverb

The photo of the day for May 9th was “a seat”. I think I have some “vintage” chairs/seats. This is one or two I found in our Fall Sale at church. A couple of years ago. 

It’s been relatively quiet around here this morning. The twins were here yesterday. They had to stay out of school for a couple of days so Sue went back to their house last night to stay with them today while their mom works.

I uploaded to my group that has the photo a day on hiatus for now. This one I titled a :natural porch fence".

Since the weather has been so nice the past few days I have moved several of the house plants out for their “vacation” out doors for the warmer months. I have managed to move all but four of the larger containers. I think Bob will help me when he gets home today or tomorrow.

The photo of the day for today is “ where I stood”......my shadow among the shadow of the trees around me. 

Rebecca came over to help with some cleaning early this afternoon, running the sweeper and such. It was a surprise. We are having some of the family over on Saturday for a pizza party. So things needed straightened up. It’s nice to have the help. 

This photo a day is from the group that I belong to that only has a photo a day four times a month. The theme of this one is “architectural details”. These are sculptures, maybe called  gargoyles on the top of the tallest, or once the tallest building in Columbus. 

The word today is treasure.  Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Martin Luther. Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. William Penn.  I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino. Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness, Saint Augustine. Man is more than half of nature's treasure, Hartley Coleridge.  The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee, Akhenaton. Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one, Rumi. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing, Robert Green Ingersoll.  A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love, Honore de Balzac.  The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith, Confucius.  Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man, William Penn.  Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within it! Rumi.  The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure, Laozi.  

This is the photo I uploaded to my group in Canada. I call it ‘early morning fog in the city”. We don’t normally see it this thick at least not by the time I get up in the morning. 

I think I talked about the house that the Sells’ built here in Columbus. Here’s a little more about the circus’ here in Columbus. The story begins with “Lewis Sells was in the auction business in Columbus.” In 1871 he found a couple of partners, the Ephraim brothers and started a traveling circus. It started with one tent and a “few side-show features”. All of this traveled in wagons. In 1872 the invested about thirty-five thousand dollars in to the venture. The first show was in Columbus in April of 1872. They made fifteen hundred and forty dollars. The first name of the circus was “the Sells Brothers' Quadruple Alliance, Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Circus. The name changed a few times. Their earnings were very low and the figured it was because they didn’t have an elephant. In 1873 they bought an elephant but it died in transport form one city to another. They bought another elephant and continued until in 1881 they had eight. They added animals including lions, tigers, hippos, seals on more. Much of their travel was by wagon but the  added custom railroad cars. In 1882 there was a serious train crash in which several people and some horses and other animals were killed. In the early yeas during the winter the circus stayed in Columbus on Main Street between Grand and Washington Avenues. As Columbus grew one thousand aces along the Olentangy River between Fifth and King Avenues, part of the “Hamlet of Marble Cliff” became known as Sellsville. This is were the circus moved to for the winter. In 1882 Allen Sells left the three brothers to run the circus for the next several years. In 1891 the circus moved to Australia for a year. Several of the animals died on the trip over seas. There was a man named Adam Forepaugh who competed with PT Barnum and Ringling Brothers in operating circus shows. After he died James A. Bailey bought Mr. Forepaugh’s show. In 1896 Mr. Bailey “partnered” with the Sells brothers. 

We are having chicken stir fry for dinner tonight. 

Joy

 May 8, 2022 a thought for today, The trees want to remain quiet, but the wind will not stop. Chinese Proverb

I expected more people at church today. I think we had even less than in the past few weeks. The message was good and passing of the peace was like sunshine today, more people went from pew to pew to welcome others. 

The photo a day for May the 7th was “a view from here”. I was waiting for lunch when this arrangement of shapes and colors drew my eye. 

I think everyone was taking their mothers to McDonalds and White Castle at noon today. Bob picked me up at church. We were going to stop at either one but both had lines around the building so we decided to try Wendy’s....success. 

I took the first steps to putting my house plants out for the spring and summer. I went to the garage to find the shelf I put them on for the “vacation”. Got it set up. It will take a couple of days of so to move every thing out. 

Think I’ll take the rest of the day off and just enjoy the sunshine. 

The photo a day for today is “love”. This one always fits that title easily. 

The word today is time. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it, Leonardo da Vinci.  Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer. Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely, Walt Whitman.  An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them, Seneca the Younger.  How noiseless falls the foot of time! William Spencer.  You may ask me for anything you like except time, Napoleon Bonaparte. Patience and time do more than strength or passion, Jean de La Fontaine. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to, Lao Tzu. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth, Francois Rabelais. There is more time than life, Mexican Proverb.  Time is the wisest counselor of all, Pericles. The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own, Charles Caleb Colton. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity, Henry David Thoreau.  Time, the devourer of everything, Ovid. Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves, Blaise Pascal. Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot, Seneca The Younger. 

One of the groups I belong to has taken a hiatus from the photo a day challenges but is still accepts photos from members of the group. This one was taken along with the one above. I added a textured overlay. 

Ohio has offered much to the history of this country. Here is a story about the wives of presidents from Ohio. “Ohio, sometimes known as “The Mother of Presidents.”  It is also the birthplace of six presidential wives. And here they are: Caroline (Scott) Harrison was born in 1832 and was born in Southwestern Ohio. She attended school in Oxford Ohio at an institution called Oxford Female Institute. After she married President Harrison they moved to North Bend Indiana. She died in 1892. Next is Helen Herron Taft. She was born in Cincinnati in 1861. She was called Nellie and suffered a stroke early in President Taft’s term. She is known for leading the drive to plant the famous Japanese cherry trees in Washington DC. Lusretia Rudolph Garfield was born in 1832 in Portage County. She was first lady for six months until President Garfield’s death in September 1881 after being assassinated. Lucy Webb Hayes was born in 1931 in Chillicothe. Her home is a historical site and is a museum. She is the first of the wives to earn a college degree.  She was considered an excellent hostess at the White House and served no alcohol. She died in 1889. Florence Kling Harding, born in 1860 in Marion, Ohio, was a devoted wife until Warren G. Harding died in office in 1923. She had been previously married. Ida Saxton McKinley was born in 1947 in Canton, Ohio. One of the Saxton-McKinley homes is a monument to all presidential wives. It is a seven-story “Richardson-Revival style”. The upper floors of the house are named for a first lady from Ohio. 

Maybe I will get to go out to dinner this mother’s day....maybe we will order in. 

Joy

in need of TLC

 

 

May 6, 2022 a thought for today, The tongue is soft but constantly remains; the teeth are hard yet they fall out. Chinese Proverb

It’s another misty/rainy day in Columbus. The temperature is good though. The week end is supposed to get better. Next week, still better. 

The photo a day for yesterday was “mirrors”. I have used several mirrors in my house already then I remembered this one that my sister mounted on the front porch. 

Lowell picked me up to take me to the lab for some blood work that I needed to get done before a check up next week. I don’t think I have gotten in and out of the lab so quickly before. There was only one person ahead of me. I was back home in less than an hour.

The printing went great yesterday. Chris picked me up. I got the work done in short time and then he brought me home. I hope I am able to get a decent car before Chris and Bob and Lowell get tired to taking me all the places I need to be. It’s nice to have them here and ready. But I hate taking up their time. 

After I got home from the lab, I did some more searching for possible cars that I would want to check out. My problem is when I see something I don’t have a way to get wherever it is that I need to go. There are always lessons to be learned. I can see more clearly how people feel when they don’t always have control over their tending to daily needs on their own power. 

I had a second photo a day for yesterday. This one was titled “a sit com title”. I used Parks and Recreation for my title. 

I was able to get some more tidying up done in the kitchen between searing for cars and typing. 

The word today is thanks. To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do, Victor Hugo.  I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks, William Shakespeare. No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you. Joseph Addison.  When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself, Tecumseh. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher.  Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Thomas Carlyle. Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare, James Russell Lowell. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues, Cicero. I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence, Henry David Thoreau. Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way, Native American Saying.  Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well, Voltaire.  Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a , guide from beyond, Rumi. It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. Charlotte Bronte.

The photo a day for today is “leaf”. There aren’t many single leaves on the ground right now so I pulled this one from my archives. 

Here is a story apart from some sort of history article. This one is about a nature subject.... mushrooms in Ohio. The story begins with research on trees in Canada in the 1990s. One species of tree led to the destruction of another. In checking out the soil it was found that there was a “network of pale, macroscopic fungal threads expending in all directions”. They were “pathways for nutrients” among the trees. And it happened it nourished mushrooms that were found sprouting there too. Mushrooms have always been “forest’s connectors”. Two friends went mushroom hunting here in Ohio for a magazine assignment. One of the hiker/hunters was a photographer. The photographer noted a tiny red mushroom “the size of a pencil eraser” and how it pictured against a brown log. They spotted a “shelf fungus” at the base of an oak tree. Near by were “coral mushrooms” shaped like corals on the sea reefs. They found “oyster mushrooms–edible-growing on a tree trunk” and surrounded by poison ivy. I learned from the article that only about 3 percent of wild mushrooms are poisonous. A couple of facts mentioned are they can heal as known for thousands of years; they connect a single tree to the rest of the forest. The article shared that mushrooms have their place in forest ecology, medicine, and art. Interestingly, they aren’t plants, they aren’t animals they are fungi. There are 2,000 different kinds of mushrooms in Ohio. Some can be a big as a small human. Some glow in the dark. One mushroom collector “rinses the mushroom at his home, then tosses the water into his yard”. (Later mushrooms pop up.) Here’s another thing I learned, an oak tree doing well, 50 yards away another not doing so well. The mushrooms need the sad tree too so it, the mushroom, “will play Robin Hood” taking some of the nutrients form the healthy tree to give to the other. 

Pizza!

Joy 

need a little bit of a face lift

 

May 4, 2022 a thought for today, The man who comes with a talk about others has himself an ax to grind. Chinese Proverb

I am caught up with my print material for tomorrow so now I am making an early start on the newsletter. It isn’t due for a couple of weeks but it never hurts to get ahead of things when I have the time.

The photo of the day for yesterday is “free choice”. This is a neighbor’s porch. I love the colors and the lines and shapes along with the relaxing feelings. 

Another update on the car search saga, I seem to be making small steps. I have tried to reach the insurance company again and am waiting for some kind of response that may never come. I have checked on some financing options. All of that while I am still searching every day. I think I have missed two that would have suited me fine. One seemed to be too expensive for my pocketbook. I missed the other because I didn’t have a way to get to the dealer to take a personal look at it. I saw it listed on one day but didn’t have a ride that day, checked the next day and it was gone. I will keep looking. 

The weather is on the “sad” side, overcast. But the trees are coming alive and flowers are dotting spots in the yard, even violets among the dandelions. 

I put ground beef out to make meatballs for Sweet Peas treats. Then while I was searching in the freezer for the vegetables I use in them I found a container that I had missed. I have to go on making the meat balls anyway since the meat is thawed. 

The word today is teach. Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad, Thomas Paine. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau.  Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon.   Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus. The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three, Confucius. To teach is to learn twice over, Joseph Joubert. Teaching is the highest form of understanding, Aristotle.  Teaching is of more importance than urging, Martin Luther. None can teach admirably if not loving his task, Amos Bronson Alcott.  Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress, Maimonides.  Those who don't know must learn from those who do,  Plato. 

The photo of the day for today is “ trees”. I have many images of trees especially at the Westgate Park near my house. But I like the configuration of these outside my front door. 

More history about Columbus. This one is about the river that flowed through. It has changed its route. Parts of it were moved when Route 315 was built. It was rerouted at the I-270 Interchange south of the Antrim Park somewhere around the 1960s. A map was found that shows that the just below the Antrim Park the Olentangy turns west then south and then east before moving on the southerly course. Another map from 1902 shows there is a difference. Through some investigation that there is a photographer who canoes along that area, has for thirty years and is familiar with it. He said "Right there where 315 comes in, just south of Antrim Park, that part of the river, I would strongly suspect, was either straightened out or moved over to put in 315." At the time the change was made several acres of wetlands were filled in to make 315. The bend that was in the river is gone along with another farther north. In some of the old maps it shows that the interchange that was taken out at 270 there was a horseshoe or a bend that has been straightened out on the old maps. Further research at the Ohio State University’s architecture library confirmed that nearly twenty two acres of wetland were lost and the river was shortened from 2,300 feet “of natural channel” to 1,600 feet “of man-made channel”. 

We are having baked spaghetti and corn casserole for dinner tonight. 

Joy

signs of wear and tear

 

 May 2, 2022 a thought for today, The lotus root may be severed, but its fibered threads are still connected. Chinese Proverb

I got the outside of the bulletin done so that I have a start on it. The rest of the information that I need will come via email today or tomorrow morning I hope. 

My  photo of the day challenge for yesterday was “this is me”. I was glancing upward when I created the selfie. I am not a fan of photos of myself so I wanted to make it a little different. 

The church service yesterday was not uplifting for me as it usually is, so it didn’t help start the week off with a restorative feeling. The pastor is a very nice person but, for me and in my opinion, very unimaginative, if I may, in presentation. I need something more to lift in spirit. A lesson in how our lives can and should parallel the real purposes of living as they were two thousand years ago even with the differences we have been given to live with. I can’t grasp how the message helps us when it comes based solely in that period in time and not connecting it with the thousand of years that have passed. 

To keep you up to date I am still begging rides, my wonderful friends and family haven’t gotten tired of me yet, at least they haven’t shown it yet. 

I need to spend some time in the kitchen today before Lowell picks me up. We are going on another visit to see what we can do about a car. 

My photo a day activities have taken a bit of a turn....one of the clubs is taking a hiatus from the daily challenges until the fall. So I will be seeking photos for one group rather than two for now. 

The word today is sun.  Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth...? Seek out the source which shines forever. Rumi.  Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight, Benjamin Franklin. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson. Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Robert Green Ingersoll. The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money, Plautus. Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering, Victor Hugo. Now is the time to unite the soul and the   world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows, Rumi. In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promise, Charles Spurgeon.  In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine, Socrates.

The photo a day theme for today is “good morning”. Just opening the door and taking a peak outside starts the day. This one was clear and quite belied by the soft shadows, blue sky and newly "born" green leaves...perfect spring morning.

This is a little history about our zip codes, according to a group here in Columbus called “Curious Cbus”. There are some interesting fact and history found in these stories. This one is about how Ohio State got the zip code 43210. “Is it used for marketing campaigns....or coincidental”. After some research it was learned that it is not a coincident. It is a countdown. Now comes a little history. Zip (Zone Improvement Plan) codes came about in the US in 1963. Many cities had “two-digit codes that correlated to different parts of the cities”. Further in the article it was mentioned that zone codes were first introduced in 1943".  The problem was to people sorting the mail “ Birmingham 11 and Burlington 11 probably looked a little too similar”. Adding a “formulaic five-digit zip code improved accuracy of mail sorting and....greatly improved the speed of delivery”. Now some explanations, the first digit in a zip code is the regional number, 0-9 moving East to West. The number 4 is Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Indiana. After that Ohio was assigned a two-number code, 3, 4, or 5.Columbus was 32. Before zip codes there were zone codes, downtown Columbus was 15. The zone code for Ohio State’s post office was 10...hence 4 is for Ohio. 32 is for Columbus. 10 is for the zone code of the university. 43210.

I have a busy afternoon so it may be each of us on our own for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

Ouch

 April 30, 2022 a thought for today, The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other. Chinese Proverb

Another Saturday has rolled around. Time for a grocery curbside pick up. I placed the order yesterday and one for Sue at the same time for pick up today. Bob and I took off for the pickup in time to make a stop at the vets office to pickup heart worm meds for Sweet Pea. 

The first photo for yesterday was “utensil”. I couldn’t think of a creative way to set up a single utensil. So I just took a snap of a collection of several after I took them out of my dish washer. 

I had to go into the store to pick up a prescription (which wasn’t ready yet even though I had a call from the store saying it was ready). On my way into the store I dropped of a few envelopes of church and family mail at the mail box outside the door. I am learning to combine errands into one trip out since I have to depend on others to get me where I need to go. 

The second photo a day for yesterday was “mirror”. There are several mirrors around the house. This one was close by and handy. I also liked the accompanying textures and lines. 

I have been doing some further research on the idea of using a golf cart to get around in lieu of a car (as mentioned in one of my recent letters/blogs). I am finding that that is probably not a promising solution. For one thing they cost almost as much money as a used car. So I will keep searching for options and solutions to my transportation dilemma. I am finding that it’s true what some say about learning more from negative happenings in life as compared to happy times. In my search about insurances and in looking for transportation I have already gathered (and saved) a wealth of knowledge and experience and it keeps coming. 

The first photo of the day for today is “in my bowl”. I decided to use in my cocktail glass instead since it was full The word today is success. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius.  Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles.  To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. Benjamin Franklin. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin. The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. Aesop. Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott. That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. Robert Louis Stevenson. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have, Thomas Jefferson.  It's never too late to be who you were meant to be, George Eliot.  We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success, Henry David Thoreau.  Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed, Abraham Lincoln.  Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it, Henry David Thoreau.  

The first photo for today is “garden” . This is more like a patio garden in containers. 

Here’s some more history about another neighbor of Columbus. This article tells how New Albany have grown. It grew from what the article titled “little more than a mill town”. In 2020 it was ranked as one of the 50 best US cities to live in. It was “has cultivated a thriving business community over the past few decades largely due to coordinated ....strategic planning”. New Albany was founded in 1837. In the 1960s and ‘70s people from Bexley and Northland began moving into the farming community. The article said that before that the only reason most folks went into Ne Albany was to buy supplies for the farms. The New Albany Mill produced feed for live stock. The beginning of new growth came from Les Wexner and Jack Kessler “created a vision for an upscale community taking root”. Land and new housing with property was a factor in its growth. In 1992 the New Albany Country club became a focal point in the lives of the residents. Soon the New Albany International Business Park was established. Aetna and Discover were the first companies to build at the park. According to the article there are now around 11,000 residents in about 3,738 homes. Over the next “two decades” Abercrombie & Fitch came, American Electric Power, Bath & Body Work, Amazon Web, Facebook and Google move into the business park. The city’s master plan led to the development of the Village Center. Walkability was a major factor. Its chamber of commerce opened in 1997. The article said that it is one of the largest chambers in Ohio and has more than 400 members. The city “made national headlines......in January after it was announced that semiconductor giant Intel is planning a $20 billion production facility in New Albany”. It is said to be the largest “economic-development project in Ohio’s history”. There is also a multinational firm in the midst of making a $365 million investment in the city. 

The second photo for today is "in my bowl".  I decided to use "in my cocktail glass" instead since it was full of cherries and more photographic than any other bowls I have handy right now. 

I think I am making taco salad for dinner. 

Joy

this is the last of the month so I am including my two photo a day composites for April 2022

One of my photo groups that offers a challenge a day is taking the summer off so I will entering for just one until fall.