How Did You Spend Mother's Day?

In a little book, Precious Solitude, the author describes our inner sense of knowing what to do.

Affirmations that can change your life:

I deserve to take time for me today.
I have all the time I need to do the important things in my life and still have time for me.
I am worthy of my own special time to do in it whatever I wish.

~Ruth Fishel, Precious Solitude, Adams Media Corporation, 1999

Happy Mother's Day ~

"The heart hath its own memory,
like the mind,
and in it are enshrined
the precious keepsakes
into which is wrought
the giver's loving thought."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Photo:

Author Cheryl MacDonald. Compliments of Catherine Berry Stidsen, Cottonwood Mansion Victorian Book Fair 2011.

Signs of Spring Photo ~ taken May 5 ~ Lookout over The Grand River Cayuga

Your Community Calendar ~

May 7, Sat. Victorian Book Fair Cottonwood Mansion 1 - 4 p.m. (Reservations 905-772-3790 and $20 admission required for guest speaker MAUREEN JENNINGS, 2:00 p.m.) General admission: free. See you there. http://www.cottonwoodmansion.ca/

May 7, Sat. Ruthven Park Visit http://www.ruthvenpark.ca/ for numerous exciting May events including Mother's Day.

May 7, Sat. Lionesses' Spring Sale Scout Hall, Munsee St. (Hwy. 54.) Cayuga. 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

June 4, Sat. Evening of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem, Cottonwood Mansion. (Info: 905-776-5391)

June 4, Sat. Crash Scene Re-enactment, Cayuga Village Green, King St.

June 18, Sat. Street Jam By-The-Grand 3 on 3 Tournament Haldimand Huskies Basketball League. Location: King St. and Cayuga St.

June 18, Sat. Village-Wide Yard Sale (Participate! Here's your big chance! Contact The Cayuga and District Chamber of Commerce.)

June 25, Sat. Day of 1000 Canoes Go online http://www.1000canoes.com/ for information. Watch bookshop blog for more details.


June 25, Sat. Grindstone Creek Gallery ~ Pottery Studio & Gift Store An exciting new business opening on King St., downtown Cayuga. Watch for details.

(Photo of Grand River taken last spring)

"Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits

The Writer And The Reader ~ A Book of Literary Quotations, Blandford Press, 1984. Neil Ewart.

Photo Restoration ~

Contact us for Photo Restoration of old, worn and faded photos. Professional quality, high resolution photo prints. Check out our website for great photos and information http://www.suntoearthphotography.com/

Many of us have inappropriate storage boxes or old albums containing forgotten family photographs. In some cases, photos were proudly displayed with little concern for fading. Often precious ancestral portraits were damaged over the years. Our experience is that when care is taken to restore these treasures, they become meaningful gifts for mothers, fathers, grandparents, even siblings and friends!

Come by the bookshop. Bring some artifacts with you or contact Scott personally
email: suntoearthphotography@gmail.com

"In a well-furnished library, we possess the power to call upon the minds of the greatest men who ever existed. We can question Xenophon and Caesar on their campaigns, make Demosthenes and Cicero plead before us, join in the audiences of Socrates and Plato and receive demonstrations from Euclid, Shakespeare and Newton. In books we have the choicest thoughts of the ablest men in their best dress."

~ Alfred Montapert, Author, Business Executive