PICTURES IN GLASS ~ The stained-glass panel displayed in the bookshop window is the work of artist Harold Robertson.

A Myriad of Colours and Texture

Colorful works of art, ranging from one-dimension to full 3-D, adorn Harold's home.  Stained glass became a second profession for Harold after decades in the corporate world.  Enjoy this artist's gallery, visit PICTURES IN GLASS http://www.haroldrobertson.blogspot.com/
Harold's beautiful pieces are also available at Grindstone Creek Gallery on King Street, Cayuga (facing the gazebo)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~ In A Letter to Her Sisters after privately  marrying Robert Browning.

"Dearest Henrietta and Arabel, ~ how I suffered that day ~ that miserable Saturday. . when I had to act a part to you ~ how I suffered!
Papa thinks that I have sold my soul ~ for genius. . . mere genius." [ Mr. Barrett never forgave or reconciled with his daughter]
". . .[Robert] sate by me for hours, pouring out floods of tenderness and goodness, and promising to win back for me, with God's help, the affection of such of you as were angry.  And he loves me more and more. 'I kissed your feet, my Ba, before I married you ~ but now I would kiss the ground under your feet, I love you with a so much greater love.'  And this is true, I see and feel.  I feel to have the power of making him happy. . I feel to have it in my hands.  It is strange that anyone so brilliant should love me, ~ but true and strange it is."

~ E.B.B. English Poet (1806 - 1861)The WORLD'S GREAT LETTERS, Edited by M. L. Schuster, 1940.
Image:  Wikipedia

Saturday, June 23 ~ Day of A Thousand Canoes

2nd Annual Event on the Grand River, Haldimand.
Launching in Caledonia, paddling to Cayuga.
for more information visit http://www.1000canoes.com/

Photo:  Village of York ~ L. B. Walker

Day of A Thousand Canoes Coming Sat., June 23 ~

Day of 1000 Canoes ~ Watch for updates. http://www.1000canoes.com/

Photos:  Cayuga-on-the-Grand,  L. B. Walker

Robert Browning wrote about love and relationships.
Today we glance at the selected works of R.B. ("Stay a while; read a book!")


"...To-morrow we meet the same then, dearest?
May I take your hand in mine?
Mere friends are we,  well, friends the merest
Keep much that I resign:


For each glance of the eye so bright and black,
Though I keep with heart's endeavor, ~
Your voice, when you wish the snowdrops back,
Though it stay in my soul forever! ~


Yet I will but say what mere friends say,
Or only a thought stronger;
I will hold your hand but as long as all may,
Or so very little longer!"

~ from The Lost Mistress.

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.  Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.  They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them.  Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind."
~ Henry D. Thoreau, Walden, Life in The Woods.  American author, poet and philosopher (1817 - 1862)

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from reading a book?  The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.  The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.  These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.  Moreover, with wisdom we shall learn liberality."

~ Henry D. Thoreau (1817 - 1862) Walden, Life In The Woods, Ticknor & Fields,1854.

"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.  There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us." ~ H. D. T.
Photo:  Rock Glen Falls, Ausable Gorge, Ontario, L. B. Walker