Scripture and a Snapshot - You Are To Rest

"Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you are to rest ― even in plowing time and harvest season you are to rest."

~Exodus 34:21~

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Five Minute Friday - Behind

One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

getting behind

look behind you

left behind

running a bit behind

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It's been a really busy couple of weeks at work, partly because we had some tech problems that I had to work around, and partly because I took on some additional responsibilities and will have to figure out how to fit them into my routine. As a result, I feel like I'm a bit behind in my work. And between me getting home later than usual some evenings, and being very busy some evenings, I'm also behind in some housework and things I should be doing at home.

This isn't new for me, and I'm getting used to feeling like I'm running behind. Wishing I'd done something sooner, or planned better, or just that I could have a do-over. We seldom get do-overs though, so since we can't go back in time and fix mistakes we may have made, we need to move on and perhaps learn from those mistakes so we can do better in future.

I can think of a lot of things I might wish I'd done differently, or even appreciated more, but dwelling on regrets and all the things I miss or wish I still had can be counter-productive. It's pretty hard to be moving forward if you're focused on things that are in the rear view mirror.

Don't stumble over something behind you. ~Seneca the Younger

Personally, I do tend to focus on the present more often than the past or the future, but that doesn't mean that I never get stuck in a pattern of looking behind me. It's best to have a balanced view, learn from the past, and leave regrets behind in order to have a clear-eyed focus on where I'm going.

Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God's heavenly call in Christ Jesus.

~Philippians 3:12-14~

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Everyday Images #69

Welcome to another installment of my challenge and reminder to myself to take photos somewhat regularly. I'm not a photographer, but I enjoy taking everyday photos of things I find interesting or want to remember later, and I find that I notice interesting things when I'm intentionally watching for them. Having some prompts that are open to interpretation has helped me pay a little more attention to what's around me. Every two weeks I have a few words and phrases that I'm focusing on, and I try to find opportunities to take pictures of these things each week.

August Prompts - Everyday Images #69

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at home (monthly)

bright

town

miniature

empty and/or full

design

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at home (monthly)

bright - it's been cooler this week but when it was clear the sun was so bright!

town

miniature - miniature glass dogs, with their own miniatures!

empty and/or full

design - the iconic Coke bottle shape, but in gold!

And a few bonus photos:

We saw the glass dogs and the Coke bottle above at the Ohio Glass Museum in Lancaster, Ohio, along with a lot of other very interesting glassware and art glass.

I found out that Anchor Hocking Glass is made right here in Ohio. I hadn't made the connection before - you know, Hocking Hills, Hocking River, Hocking County . . . Anyway, Anchor Hocking and a lot of other glass was produced in Lancaster, Ohio. 

How neat would it be to get a pretty piece of glassware in your tin of breakfast oatmeal? Makes the prizes I found in my cereal box as a kid seem a bit tame in comparison. I didn't realize that humans were resistant to the idea of eating oats as recently as the 1920s and 1930s, because it was considered animal feed. It makes sense, I suppose! I guess this clever marketing scheme must have been successful in promoting oatmeal!

Remember uranium glass? So cool!

There's also art glass at the museum and a great gift shop. Stop by if you are in the area!

On our day in Lancaster, we ate dinner at O'Huids Gaelic Pub, where the black cherry cider was crisp and refreshing, the fish and chips were delicious, and where I finally tried mushy peas. Not just any mushy peas but Minty Mushy Peas. They were pretty good!

Went to the Bark Bash on Saturday, not because we have a dog, but because our granddaughter loves dogs and is on a mission to pet as many as possible. She got to take part in the performance dog show and loved it. 

This was my first attempt at the "town" photo, which was a runner-up for "bright" as well.

I am sharing my photos every other Thursday, along with my prompts for the next two weeks. You can use all or some of the prompts for your own photo posts, or none of the prompts and just link up a post featuring your photos. Simple rules: Your posts must be family-friendly; the photos must be your own; and the post must be mostly photos. If you do share I'd appreciate a mention and link to A Fresh Cup of Coffee on your post.

Everyday Images will continue in 2025, every other Thursday, and the link-up is open for two weeks. 

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August/September Prompts - Everyday Images #70

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nature

books

technology

monochrome

evening and/or morning

warning

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The Hodgepodge is Greek to Me

A hodgepodge is a jumble or assortment of things that might not appear to belong together. Joyce at From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly link-up called Wednesday Hodgepodge that is a little collection of questions for bloggers to answer just for fun and to get to know each other. I always look forward to chatting with friends over coffee, so pour a cup of your favorite and let's visit for a few minutes!

Here are this week's questions - and my answers - for this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge.

1.  When someone finds out what you do or where you're from, what's a question they always ask?

 

The first thing people usually ask when they find out we're not originally from here (Columbus, Ohio) is, "What brought you here?" When they find out we moved here from Maryland, they almost always ask what part of Maryland, which is fair. Because unless you're quite familiar with the state, you probably don't know a lot about the areas outside of the Baltimore-DC metro area or the Eastern shore, and we did not live in those parts of the state. When they find out we're originally from Canada, they especially want to know when and why we moved and what part of Canada we're from. Almost always, they'll mention a place in Canada that they have traveled to or know a little about, even if it's not anywhere near where we're from, and very often they'll ask a question related to what we think about Canadian politics or something in the news.  

 

2. Did you participate in 'Greek Life' when you were in college, or have children who did? If so what was your experience like? Taking another tack . . . have you ever been to Greece? If not, is that a destination on your bucket list?

'Greek Life' wasn't a thing at my college at all, so no, and my daughter didn't get involved in a sorrority or any 'Greek life' during her college years either. I haven't been to Greece, but I sure would like to go sometime! Whenever I finally get to go on the Mediterranean cruise I dream about, I will make sure Greece is one of the ports of call. 

 3. Do you like Greek food? If so what's your favorite dish?

I really like most Greek dishes I've tried, and always look forward to eating out at Greek restaurants. Baklava and Greek pastry desserts have been favorites for as long as I can remember. Pastitsio, spanakopita (or anything in phyllo, honestly), lamb kebabs, saganaki, dolmades, pitas and hummus,  . . . there's a lot! I don't like seafood or eggplant, so those are the types of Greek dishes I wouldn't eat, and I don't like Greek style salads. Also, I eat Greek-style yogurt almost every day, if that counts! 

We're actually planning on going to the Greek festival in Columbus this weekend. We went for the first time last year and it was so good!

4. What incredibly common thing have you never done?

 I've never had a manicure or pedicure at a salon. I've never had a pedicure at all.

5.  What is a telltale sign that you're upset?

 

If I'm upset as in anxious or stressed, my hands are itchy. If I realize I'm scratching obsessively on my hands and it's not because of an allergy or mosquito bites, that's my personal dead giveaway that I'm reaching overwhelmed status and stuffing down my anxiety about something. I think my usual sign of being angry upset is that I get very tight-lipped and don't say anything, but I'll start to get very, shall we say, "brisk" with my actions. Like shutting a cupboard door or drawer harder and snappier than necessary, not a full slam, but enough to make my point. My daughter used to ask me if I was "angry typing" and sometimes I was, like if someone was on my last nerve but I needed to respond to their email or message! Haha

6. Insert your own random thought here.

 

This made me laugh, and I don't even care if it's an AI-generated picture:

I finally got around to posting the photos from our visit to Polymath Park - A Polymath Park PhotoJournal. For more, I will have a new Everyday Images photo link-up here tomorrow (Thursday) with a new set of prompts. I've taken so few pictures the last week or so that it might be a challenge for me to find something for each of my current prompts!

Writing Letters is the theme of the current Wednesday Quotes link-up which you can find here: WQ - Writing Letters. Stop by and share a few thoughts and quotes!

What's your favorite Greek food? Leave a comment and let me know!

I'm sharing in this week's Wednesday Hodgepodge at From This Side of the Pond.

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A Polymath Park PhotoJournal

When I shared about our tour of Fallingwater recently, I promised another set of photos coming soon because we also visited Polymath Park on that trip. Polymath Park is about a half hour from Fallingwater, and about an hour from Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands. 

There were two homes originally on this site, both designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice and colleague named Peter Berndtson. These properties were eventually purchased by the Papinchak family with the intent of preserving the homes and eventually opening them to the public. In 2006 they purchased and relocated a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home, the Duncan House, which had originally been in Lisle, IL. And in 2019, the Wright-designed "Mäntylä" house was acquired and relocated from Cloquet. MN.

This is the Treetops Restaurant at the 'headquarters' of the site, which was originally the home of the Papinchaks:

Guests can tour all four houses or just the Wright houses. On our visit, we chose to visit just the two Wright houses.

The Duncan House was one of the prefabricated houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was interested in mass production of housing throughout his career, and in the 1950s he worked with builder Marshall Erdman was already offering prefab houses. Wright offered to design better homes for Erdman that would sell at even more modest prices. The Duncan House is an example of the Prefab #1 design - a single story, L-shaped home with a bedroom wing and a living and kitchen area wing all centered on a large fireplace. The design also included a storage shed connected to the house by a carport.

The R.W. Lindholm house, named Mäntylä, was designed in 1952 by Wright. The name is from a Finnish word meaning "of the pines" which was appropriate for its original location in the Minnesota forest. The house was in danger of demolition due to encroaching development, and in 2016 the house and furnishings were donated and the relocation project began. Mäntylä at Polymath Park opened for tours in 2019.

I loved both of these homes. As beautiful and innovative as I found the other Wright homes we've toured, they were all designed for very wealthy families with household servants and plenty of money for luxuries, and so there was a bit more of a museum quality to them. The houses at Polymath Park were designed for families that prepared their own meals and spent time in their own kitchens, and drove their own cars instead of having a chauffeur. Just the design of a kitchen that was part of the family's living space added a hominess that I really felt.

For more about Frank Lloyd Wright, visit  the original post at Homeschool Coffee Break, and the most recent post, A Fallingwater PhotoJournal. You can also check out some previous posts about Frank Lloyd Wright: A Kentuck Knob PhotoJournal; Frank Lloyd Wright - Blogging Through The Alphabet; A National Building Museum PhotoJournal

 

  

Thanks for joining me as I looked back on this tour, and I hope you enjoyed it! Have you visited any Frank Lloyd Wright buildings? Leave a comment and let me know!

This post is adapted from the original on Homeschool Coffee Break.

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