Smile for Today ~

In the course of conversation at an American dinner party Einstein's neighbor, a young girl, asked the white-haired professor:  "What are you actually by profession?"  Einstein replied:  "I devote myself to the study of physics."
The girl looked at him in astonishment.  "You mean to say you study physics at your age?"  she exclaimed.  "I finished mine a year ago."

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, 1885.





Clearing the Ice

  Bitterly Chilly ~ Progress on the Bridge ~ Photos:  Tuesday March 5

Three Caissons




Construction of Caissons on South Side

 

Cayuga Mutual Overlooking The Grand River

Upon discovery of a valley and a beautiful stream, Alexander Graham Bell observed, "Now just think of that.  Here was a beautiful gorge, half a mile long, right on my own place, and coming at one point within fifty feet of a well-trodden road ~ and I never knew of its existence before!  We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut.  There are things all around us, and right at our very feet, that we have never seen:  because we have never really looked.
"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like a flock of sheep.  Leave the beaten track occasionally..."

~ GENIUS AT WORK Images of Alexander Graham Bell, Dorothy Harley Eber, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1982.

(Photos: Ouse Street ~ Around the corner from the bookshop)