BEING USEFUL

    It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful.

                                                  Henry Ward Beecher

      Great sense in his one. We can sit around and think about things but that doesn't get anything done. 

GREAT FALL DAY

        Today was a great fall day. It was bright so the fall colors showed nicely. I finally got out to take some photos. I was able to show some harvesting that was complete. Then I was able to look out across the Red Deer valley. You can see some of the city in a couple of shots.

     I had actually gone out for lunch with some elderly colleagues. I'm the oldest. So while I was waiting for them, I took the photos.

RESULTS

     I've always believed that if you put in the work , the results will come.

                                                   Michael Jordan

  This would be a typical sports saying.

LIFE

              As you simplify life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

                                                   Henry David Thoreau

             I don't know what he's talking about here.

FALL COMES SILENTLY

      Fall sneaks in silently. One day it just  fall. Summer is over.

     One day there is a new pleasant odor. Photosynthesis has stopped.  Leaves have started their journey of breaking down. So  one day I suddenly say, hey it smells like fall.

    All of a sudden on one day you see that your plants don't need  water poured to them any more. They are finished. You look around and say when did these changes happen? Everything seemed to be like summer yesterday.

     Sunlight has changed a little in color. Sunlight has suddenly become a little weaker or fainter. It also  doesn't pack the heat it did a few days ago.

    Suddenly there is a dryness in the atmosphere. Plants are finished and less water enters the atmosphere.

   I like the pleasant atmosphere of fall. We can slow down. We know that many of our summer duties are over.

THINGS THAT COUNT

             What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

                                                          Albert Pike

          This guy makes perfect sense.

TROUBLE

                  If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing words instead of being pulled by them.

                                                                 Raymond Chandler

               Raymond Chandler knows something about himself.