October 9, 2022 a thought for today, God protect us from him who has read but one book. Italian Proverb

One of the uploads yesterday was “purple”. I was able to find, with my son’s help, several items along the way that were a shade of purple. Most of them were doors. But I couldn’t pass this one of the whole house. Kind of pretty.

We are having another beautiful Sunday. Our message today was given by a member of our Saturday evening mission project. It was a worthy message and would be nice to hear from him again. After church we had our usual monthly fellowship. I needed the togetherness, the refresh, and renewal more than some days today. I took one of the members home, he was going to take a bus but I don’t live far from him so I told him come along. 

After dropping off my friend and on my way home I was on the alert for some photos for today and for the archives.

My second upload yesterday was another from my collection. This is Zoe. Here memories and some photos are all we have left of her, except for the toy that is in her mouth. We still have that. 

Yesterday and the day before were our annual fall sale to support the church and at the same time serve the community. I am not a “working” part of the event but I help in small ways with some printing and contacts. All of the workers, volunteers, put forth a lot of effort and are probably exhausted and ready for a day or so rest. 

The rest of the day will be for relaxation, restoration and preparation for the week ahead. 

My first upload for today is “aqua”. I get the color aqua mixed up with the color turquoise. Again, I saw several items of aqua, mostly doors again but this bird bath in that color caught my eye. 

The word is memory.  Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving. Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Thomas Fuller. Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. Thomas Moore.  It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll. Observation is an old man's memory. Jonathan Swift. Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus. Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. Charlotte Bronte.  History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die, Thomas Campbell. Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember, Seneca the Younger. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal, Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume, Stanislas de Boufflers.  

My second upload to day was once again from the archives. I use a lot from those files but at the same time I add to those files almost every day. This one is of an area park that is  not the one close to my home that I usually offer. 

I think that the things the students in this article will be learning can be used by any and all gardeners.  As the title noted they will be learning “boosts academic achievement and improves quality of life”. One test proved that elementary aged students scored “significantly higher on science achievement tests”. These same tests noted that the students experienced enhanced academic performance, physical activity and healthy eating habits. Further in the article it was mentioned that school gardening affected the amount and variety of vegetables the middle school students ate. Because of these kinds of tests Columbus schools are looking to develop and/or expand school gardening programs. There are programs like these in sixty-four school buildings in the district and plans for twenty more this fall.  Here are some of the benefits of gardening in schools: Positive impact on student achievement and behavior;  appreciation and respect for nature that lasts into adulthood; interactions with plants influence their attitudes and actions; communicating their knowledge about the world to others; conveying emotions, and  developing important skills that will help them be more successful in school. They gather knowledge in planting, harvesting, cooking and more. They learn about the diversity that a garden has to offer, including animals and insects in the garden. There has even been positive changes in BMI, and several dietary behaviors. 

It’s a take out night for dinner. 

Joy

            hydrant with a hat (Halloween costume?)

 October 7, 2022 a thought for today, Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. American Native Lumbee  Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “blue”. Most colors are fairly easy to find. Blue for me is one of the easiest. At seems very eye catching when whole structures or even on full wall is one striking color as this building is. 

For me each day of the week (for a retired person) seems to have something unique about it. Sunday a day of renewal and relaxation, Monday a day open and time to begin the pages of a new chapter, Tuesday a day to gather and attend to a to-do list, Wednesday a continuation of the Tuesday to-do list, Thursday a culmination of the to-do list and time to take a deep breath, Friday a time to look at and catch up comfortably on a back-burner-list, Saturday the household grocery business, then back to Sunday; all with necessary adjustments and patches. 

The second upload for yesterday is free choice. This is where another from the archives pulls my attention. The seating and part of a table in a diner. The lines, shapes and colors call attention. 

Today was the first day of the annual two-day fall sale at my church. Since my sister is more the shopper than I am I thought she would enjoy a stop and visit there. So we went early. She seemed to enjoy herself and I took some photos for our newsletter. On the way home Sue helped me look for one of my photo of the day images. It’s nice to have another set of eyes and tastes helping me in the search. 

The autumn days begin with a chill in the air now. The leaves are changing and beginning to fall. The football games are in full swing. This the best part of autumn days before the really cold weather settles in. 

My first upload for today is “yellow”. At this time of year colors offer a big selection. As I was driving through the neighborhood I was on the alert for finding a image with yellow along with other pleasing features. 

The word today is make. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us, Henri Frederic Amiel. Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau. Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero. The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tzu.  Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. Robert Browning. Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. Saint Francis de Sales. 

This second upload for today is another from my growing collections and fits nicely with this time of year. 

This article is about one of the most famous things Columbus has to offer....the OSU football stadium...the Horseshoe. The article starts out by saying that the stadium actually came about from an after thought of Charles “Chic” Harley. In 1916 “the Buckeyes became a major attraction and Big Ten champions for the first time”. The place was called the “Ohio Field” at the time. At that time “clamoring for a stadium” started. In 1919 a spot east of the Olentangy River was picked for the stadium. All eighty-eight Ohio counties were asked to help raise one million dollars. There were some “cost overloads” from that but it was a beginning. The design for the new stadium was to hold sixty-six thousand people. The horseshoe idea was “inspired by stadiums at Yale and Harvard”. The description in the article said “Ohio Stadium was the first double-deck, poured-concrete (around steel wires) stadium in the country, and the largest of any type west of the Appalachian Mountains.” Another figure that came into the mind of the designer was the Colosseum and Pantheon in Rome. That’s where the arches, domes, and half-dome came from. One statement was that the “architectural marvel...was ahead of its time”. However, from 1922 to 1935 the team was not in the superb winning nature that they finally became. Since attendance “lagged” there were only about thirty thousand fanes in five home games. The stadium became known “Smith’s Folly”. Things turned around and they became a consistent winner in college football. The article mentioned an interesting thought about that was it a bit of the chicken before the egg kind of happening, success because of the stadium or the stadium because of the winning. There have been renovations over time. The most recent addition was a permanent section in the south stands. It “does not touch the rest of the stadium” so that the structure remains a horseshoe. The horseshoe feature is a distinctive feature that needs to be kept in tact, one of the few unique venues in college football. The article appropriately mentioned that with the maintenance that has been kept up and when other stadiums often only a generation the horse shoe has withstood the test of time.  

Pizza night is here again!

Joy

                           chained for safety (what is it?)

  

 October 5, 2022 a thought for today, What was written by a pen, cannot be taken out with an axe. Russian Proverb

For the first upload for October 4 the “assignment title” was “red”. I saw all kinds of reds today and captured several on digital “film”. I was sitting in the McDonald drive thru and glanced in my side rear view mirror. I couldn’t resist the bright red car waiting behind me. 

Sue and I got short shopping errands out of the way Monday and yesterday so today I had all daylight hours to work on other things. I finished the bulletin and sent it out. Then finished an order for my great granddaughter. She is a new girl scout and is raising money for her troop. I also had a couple of on line things to get done. 

The second upload was from my now “well visited” archives. This was taken in my daughter-in-law’s house a couple of years ago. I liked the juxtaposition of sunlight and shadow as well as the forms and shapes. 

I have three photo a day shots to find and process. I think I have two of them at hand so I will go in search for the other outside near the house. That won’t be such a hard task since the sun is shining. I think there is a bit of a nip in the air but it’s a typical fall day.

It’s been relatively quiet around here today so I have gotten most of what was on the agenda done so I am going to play around with getting the air fryer idea working. I need to do some reading and then some practice. 

One of the upload titles for today is “orange”. I ventured into the back yard today to get this shot of my fire thorn bush. It is wicked. It has some dangerous thorns covering it’s branches. I’m not positive but I think it’s roots have become entangled with those of my lilac and hibiscus plant directly on the other side of the fence and seems to be winning over their existence. 

The word for today is listen.  Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch. A person hears only what they understand, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Listen with your heart, you will understand, Pocahontas. The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust, Josh Billings. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word, Ralph Waldo Emerson. If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. Jean de La Fontaine.  Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him? Hafez.  No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Charles Spurgeon.  One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much, Philippe de Commines. At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated, Gautama Buddha.  Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed, Laozi.

This second upload for today is another from the archives and another from my son and daughters-in-law home. I love the vintage feel and memory of such a school desk from years gone by.   

It’s that time of years. In this article we learn about some near by haunting. From what I have read there are a few places in our community that are supposedly “haunted”. This article is telling about the one at the Kelton House Museum where it states that “encounters have been occurring on the regular for nearly 50 years”. The museum is located in Old Town East and was once a family mansion. This structure was built in the Victorian style. There people can learn about history. In 1976 the Junior League of Columbus bought the property and began restoration. One of the first things they did was install alarm systems with motion sensors. Since there are many expensive things in the house the fire department recommended that all door interior and exterior be closed at night. As the story goes on every night at about midnight, the motion detectors sent signals. Those who responded found the doors open and no evidence of any kind of entry. One of the stories is that there is a little girl in wedding attire, there had never been a wedding there where a child was on the guest list. To further this story there was a report that on one fall day near 1960 there were children near the house. One child asked if she could play with another’s doll. But the girl didn’t seem to want to play with the others. Later is was discovered that the girl with the doll had died the previous day. Here’s another happening...some visitors were chatting one saw the others hair move slightly, “oh your air conditioning must have just kicked on”......the air conditioner in the house is “notoriously noisy, and the house remained silent”. Another reported incident...a woman was holding a piece of paper which, while she was talking, folded in half by itself. Then, in the article, the subject of deaths came up. In early years, at the time fo the Civil War, there was an accident at the house where a man had vertigo and fell into an alley from a two-story window and broken a femur. It took six men to carry him upstairs when he was returned from the hospital. Within three days he died. After that time “a number of neighbors have seen a man in the yard dressed in a Civil War uniform”, some of the neighbors even asked if there was a re-enactment going on. The article went on to tell of staff members have seen shadows of people walking on the steps. There was a red stain seen forming on a white couch, there was the smell of cigarettes when there was none being used. According to the article visitors relate of non-threatening encounters. 

This is another of those days when I have a third photo of the day “assignment”. This one is “in the style of Ansel Adams” (one of my “hero's”). A Google answer “in the style of Ansel Adams. It's grand landscapes, iconic natural landmarks, front to back pinpoint sharpness and dramatic skies” and in black and white. I may fall short in the “pinpoint sharpness and dramatic”. I am still a “practicing professional (amateur) photographer”.

I think I may try the air fryer tonight. I may try fried chicken cutlets, maybe. 

Joy

                               A peak into today’s world

 October 3, 2022 a thought for today, There will come a time when the seed will sprout. Russian Proverb

I received some photos from my daughter-in-law of my great grand children having a wonderful time with their grandparents. Half of them are just now getting serious one-on-one time to bond with their grandparents. It does my heart good. Now, I hope and pray, it will be smooth sailing for all of their, my four great grandchildren and their grandma and grandpa, to continue to bond and celebrate each others lives. For their early and formative years there was a little “hick up” in the normal progress of that path. I think it’s fixed now, mostly. 

The first photo upload for yesterday was “black” (we are doing a different color each day). This image is of the front end of a truck, a bright yellow truck. I managed to separate the image I shot to include only the black portion of the truck. 

Sue and I had a few short errands day. We each had stops at each other’s banks, a stop at Kroger for forgotten items and one last stop for Sue. In one of the stops I had a surprise meeting. One of the ladies from church, who is making a major change in her life, was at the bank and had one of the tellers catch me before I left and missed her. It was a short but nice visit.

My second up load for yesterday was pulled from my trusty archives. This was taken in a flower shop of one of the many prepared arrangement to be sent to someone special.  

I found that one of the house plants I brought in may be having a problem so I took it back out side and used a homemade spray (cooking oil, mint leaf, garlic, onion, hot pepper sauce, dawn and water) to try to protect it. I have used this concoction for a few years, it seems to have worked well. I sprayed the plant yesterday but found a couple of spots I missed so sprayed it again today. I also noticed that one of the Christmas plants had a tiny little bud. It seemed to remind me that it needs twelve hours of complete darkness for a month to set the blooms so I started taking it out from under the plant lights at five o’clock to put in a closet. I take it out and back to the plant lights at about seven o’clock the next morning. 

I got some basic work done on the bulletin before Sue and I left earlier this morning. 

The upload for today is “green”. I tried to tone down the bright blue sky to put more emphasis on the green leaves of several different trees. 

The word for today is light.  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato. Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay. Light tomorrow with today! Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal. Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus.  Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte. Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will. Francis of Assisi. To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. Robert Schumann. The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. Saint Augustine. The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. John Milton.  Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. Thomas Moore.  Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri Frederic Amiel. 

Another photo from the archives is of this friendly fellow. It was taken on a trip to the zoo a couple of years ago. 

I don’t like roundabouts. That being said, I am willing to visit the idea that they may make things safer. I feel it makes for confusion. I am a product of a past and simpler era. The article says there is increasing support for their use. These circles in the road “have spiraled in the past two decades”. Franklin and Delaware counties “are now home to more than 100 traffic circles-ten times higher than 2004”. According to the article they are a low-tech way to safety. Apparently Delaware County considers a roundabout when an intersection needs repair. The definition of a roundabout “is a circle at the intersection to two or more roads with no traffic signals or stop signs. Drivers entering the circle must yield to cars on the inside”. The article went on to state that a single land roundabout has only eight conflict points conspired to thirty-two at a red light intersection. The circle causes traffic to slow down. They reportedly shorten commutes since people don’t have to stop as often and save on gas money. They say that roundabouts are not necessary for most intersections. Traffic lights are better for 

heavily traveled roads. 

I think we will be having spaghetti for dinner. 

Joy

                    one day at a time

 October 1, 2022 a thought for today, Take care of your dress from when it's new and your honor from your youth. Russian Proverb

The first photo a day up load for yesterday was “sentimental”.

I felt this one gave a feeling of sentimentality, a young person’s hand in an adult hand. 

This is grocery pick-up day. I forgot to put some melon on the order so I had to go into the store before our order was ready to came out. 

I have been hearing about how a lot of people are enjoying air fryers so I have decided to buy one for our house. It’s another new device improving in technology. Sometimes the ways of doing things are best in the nature of the “good ol’ days” but why not try the new and live in the age that’s here.....that’s ours to experience. 

My second upload for yesterday as one from my stand by collection. This tree is in my neighbor’s yard and in full autumn show. 

I got the frig and sink cleaned out and ran the dish washer yesterday so that is one task off the today’s list. 

I have family in Florida and family in North Carolina so, like many people, I have been watching the path of Ian. It’s been two days now since it hit Florida and I haven’t heard from anyone there. It is about to hit North Carolina. 

The skies are getting a bit cloudy. We are supposed to get a bit of the rain Ian is spreading around later today. Hopefully the Ohio State game will be ok. 

My first upload for today, the beginning of a new month of theme photos. This one is “white”. This month will be a month of colors. I just got home from grocery shopping and had all these white pick-up bags from Kroger. 

The word today is life. The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss, Thomas Carlyle.  He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind, Leonardo da Vinci.  The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth.  We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens. For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life, William Blake.  How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning. The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over, Aesop. Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo. Every moment of light and dark is a miracle, Walt Whitman. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves, Victor Hugo.  With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things, William Wordsworth. The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead, Aristotle.

My second upload is from one of the gardens I visited on a photo search a couple of years ago.

It seems this is an event that make Ohio a place to visit....the Circleville Pumpkin Show. In 1903 the Mayor of Circleville shared his thoughts of a small exhibit in front of his business on West Main Street. He imagined corn fodder and pumpkins, some as Jack-O-Laterns, as the “principal decorations. It was called “the pumpkin show”. The next year several other “enterprising neighborhood merchants” joined him and the exhibition grew. In 1905 a merry-go-round was set up. Over the years as interest grew a permanent organization was formed of volunteers who vowed to hold an annual Pumpkin Show on the streets of Circleville. The goal was to promote and maintain friendly relationships with patrons and visitors of the community. The thinking was to continue to promote agricultural interests. It allowed for displays of grain, fruits and vegetables, school displays. All this promoted interests in Circleville and Pickaway County. The article passed on that the desire of the event is to “to keep the Pumpkin Show fair, clean and above reproach in every respect”. It has become the sixth largest festival in the United States. In the four day event over 300,000 persons visit the festivities. There is no admission charge or entry fee. The Pumpkin Show receives no subsidy or support and operates on income and donations and even reimbursing the City of Circleville for additional expenses such as extra police duty and other efforts of the city.  

I am thinking I am going to try a ground beef beef stew for dinner, maybe over biscuits. 

Joy

The next two and last images in this message are my composites for the photo a day for two of the three clubs I work with each month. 

Sudbury Photography Club

                        Fat Mum Slim Photo a Day Challenge

 September 29, 2022 a thought for today, Many people who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. Russian Proverb

The printing is done for another week. I was hoping to be able to chat with Chris but he didn’t come while I was there. I answered a call while I was there. One of the ladies who has been a long time member of the church has had some health problems and is now ready to move into a senior citizens facility. I think she was a little sad about leaving her home so I tried to give her some encouragement. 

On September 28 my first upload was supposed to be “my culture”. That one gave me a bit of a problem trying to decided what to consider "culture”, there could be several ways to consider that. After some thought I felt it fit the definition of culture. This is one of my peer volunteers preparing to serve our community by helping to make free food available to those in need. 

On the way home from the printing at church, I looked for some photo ops. I found a couple that will go into the archives. I made a drive by the park where I can usually pick up some nice images most times but two of the parking lots that I use a lot were full. There must have been something going on at the closed shelter house. 

My archives get a lot of use. I take photos on a daily basis and add them to an extensive set of archives. This one was taken as I was walking in the alley behind my house looking for moments in time to capture and to share. This little guy wanted so much to get a closer look at me. This is my second upload for September 28, 2022. 

When I got home, I spent some time cleaning up the area where the house plants were “vacationing”. I couldn’t get the key to the garage to work so I left them outside the door.  Bob will have to help me move all the odds and ends into the garage when he gets home this evening. 

I also spent some time looking for some winter slacks along with a prop for one of my photos of the day inside draws where I have winter or little used cloths kept.

With all the extra walking today my legs will be screaming this evening and tomorrow. But....hey....it comes with age. The plus side is that I will get the 2000 steps. 

The first upload assignment for today is “not my style”. There is a need to “dress up” on occasions in life but for everyday living sequins and fancy high heel sandals are not my style. 

The word for today is leaves. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo. To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson.  Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. Henry David Thoreau. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Thomas Moore. The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them. Saint Francis de Sales. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind, Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. William Allingham. The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. William Wordsworth. Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Here’s another from my archives for my second upload today. These are instruments found in the choir room at my church. We make beautiful music sometimes with and sometimes without them.

I don’t remember experiencing a street car but they have interested me along with what I have seen in movies, the cable cars in San Francisco. This article is about the “horse powered street cars” in Columbus in 1863 to 1892. The beginning of the article says that the first line ran from the Columbus Union Depot on North High Street past the State House at Broad and High then to Mound Street and South High Streets. That was a one and half mile trip. Horsecars. as the horse drawn transportation seem to have been called, began to go out of style in 1888 as “electrification” began. In 1892 the horsecar line at Oak Street was changed to electrified streetcars. Columbus population grew from 18,000 to 90,000 during the twenty-nine years of the horsecar travel. During that period walking from the central area of shopping and business on High Street led to the need of travel between suburbs and down town. So streetcar routes were formed. In 1863 there were two streetcar companies that covered several routes for a total of 34.5 miles. The electric cars followed a basic layout that the horsecar lines used. The electric street car system lasted from 1888-1948. This system completely replaced the horsecars in 1892. The benefits of the electric system to the horsecar system was speed, cleanliness, capacity and economy. When the change took place there were two systems supplying the electric cars..The Columbus Consolidated Street Railway Company and the Glenwood & Greenlawn Railroad Company. The second one mentioned ran the West Broad Street and Greenlawn cemetery lines. In 1893 the street car and electric light business came together as the Columbus Railway & Light Company and became the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company in 1937. Streetcars ended in 1948.

I haven’t decided on dinner yet, something simple and quick. 

Joy

                                needs attention

 September 27, 2022 a thought for today, Beware: some liars tell the truth. Arabic Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “moon”. I looked for a moon last night but there was none to be seen so I pulled this one from my growing archives. 

We started the morning early with the cleaning lady. She likes to get an early start just like I do. When she left I still had some time before I needed to get ready for food pantry. So I started bringing in the house plants. I will feel so much better now that they are in and I don’t have to worry about the temps going too low. Most of them are sub-tropical plants, they like warm temps. I have five more to bring in but they are of a larger variety so I am going to need Bob’s help. 

.....We had another busy day at food pantry. This makes the third day we have gone over what, for quite a while, has been an average of about twelve families. Today we had twenty-two. 

The second upload was also from my archives. This one was for the photography club I belong to in Canada. 

It always feels good to be working with friends at the pantry. We usually have some time for getting to know each other a little better and/or keep in touch. 

While we were working in the pantry someone said we had a touch of sleet, getting my plants in today seemed in the nick of time. 

Today’s upload is “open door”. I took all kinds of shots of open doors today. I finally decided this on of my open refrigerator door was the one I liked best. 

The word today is knowledge. Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own, Benjamin Franklin. Example is the best precept, Aesop. Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon. To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. Confucius. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. ......But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon. Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. Lao Tzu. What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of things, Benjamin Franklin. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato. Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato.  Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Leonardo da Vinci.

Today’s second upload, yet another from my archives. This one was taken when I was on a photo excursion during a stroll down the alley behind my house.

I learned something about Big Bear. The title to this article is “Weird Columbus history: The 1930s grocery store that kept a live bear inside of it”. In the 1930s a Big Bear grocery founder “Wayne Brown found a unique way to pack the customers in – by bringing along actual, live bears”. In 1934, during the Great Depression, an Ohio native opened his first grocery in a huge building that was once a skating rink, dance hall and had horse shows. It was located on Lane Avenue near the OSU. Hundreds of people came to see the bear in the Big Bear. The bear was kept in a special cage outside the entrance. According to the article the store’s janitor took care of the bear.  The article also mentioned a legend that if a stock boy made a mistake he had to take the bead down to the Olentangy River and give it a bath. In 1942 the original bead had out grown the cage so it was taken to the Columbus Zoo and a new home. Other bear followed for grand openings and such. These following bears became entertainment walking on a ‘high wire’, and even letting children take a ride on his back. Big Bear had a great following competitors threatened suppliers that they would pull their business if they sold to the Big Bear chain. So the Big Bear found other distributors. Eventually in 1989 Penn Traffic forced a buyout. In 2004 all the Big Bear stores closed for good.  

Left over meat loaf and mashed potatoes are on the menu tonight. 

Joy 

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