Saturday, March 9, 2013


Day of 1000 Canoes 2012 York

Artists ~
An opportunity for artists to show their work while enjoying a day on the banks of the Grand.  Check it out.
www.riverwalkartshow.ca  also, find Day of 1000 Canoes on Facebook.

Photo: 2012 Day of 1000 Canoes, lbwalker.

Complimenting Samuel Johnson* on his great Dictionary of the English Language, two ladies praised his omission of all naughty words.  "What!  My dears!  Then you have been looking for them?"  exclaimed Johnson.  The ladies, deeply embarrassed, changed the subject.
[How times have changed! lbw]

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, 1985.

*English writer, essayist, moralist (1709 - 1784)