Lots of Fours

It is the 14th day of the 4th month and this is my 1400th blog post. So, naturally, I went in search of 1400 images. No, not one thousand and four hundred images!

Images of 1400. Like this one from the Woodend Fire Brigade in Woodend, Victoria, Australia used when they reached 1400 Likes on their Facebook page. It looks like they are a dedicated group of volunteers protecting and serving their neighbors.

And this attractive address signage for the 1400 Food Lab at 1400 Dublin Road in Columbus, Ohio. They are "an incubator for start up food businesses, a test kitchen for recipes and ideas and a food experience center for everyone". I wouldn't mind visiting there! Even their web page is interesting to visit.

With my love of maps, I had to find one from 1400. This one of the Mediterranean area has some familiar names, but also many I don't recognize.

There were a number of photos for a 1400 Fiat, but I picked this one for the license plate - the year of my first born's birth. Classy looking car, too.

April 14 is not only the 14th day of the 4th month, it is the 104th day of the year. So, what happened on this date?
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre.
1881: "Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight" in El Paso. Never heard of it.
1902: James Cash Penney opened his first store in Kemmerer, WY. Loved the Penney's department stores.
1935: The Black Sunday Dust Storm - one of the worst of the Dust Bowl storms.
1939: Four years later, John Steinbeck's novel about the Dust Bowl, The Grapes of Wrath, was published.

In 1999, actress Ellen Corby died. She was Grandma Esther on one of my all time favorite television shows, The Waltons.

How's this for coincidence - two of the actors from one of my all time favorite movies, Dr. Zhivago, share the same birthday. Rod Steiger, April 14, 1925 and Julie Christie, April 14, 1940. Hated him as Victor Komarovsky; loved her as Lara Antipova.

Finally, on this date six years ago, much closer to home, a tornado touched down along the north side of town. It struck the hospital, the college, the Y, a number of homes and apartment buildings and the AEA building pictured above.
We were under a tornado watch last evening, but while funnel clouds were sighted, none touched down. We are in that time of the year.

Okay, one more. From four years ago today. Guess our late spring this year is nothing new.

How appropriate these lyrics of Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago are today with snow in our forecast tonight:

Somewhere my love there will be songs to sing
Although the snow covers the hope of spring
Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold
And there are dreams, all that your heart can hold.