Harold Robertson proudly shows us his latest stained-glass piece before he packages and ships it to a client. Laid off from a corporation during a down-turn, Harold took up an art which provides enjoyment and satisfaction. Meticulouly constructed, each piece of glass is chosen for its effect in the completed work. Colour, texture, variation, degree of clarity or opaqueness are considered.
For a glimpse into PICTURES IN GLASS visit http://www.haroldrobertson.blogspot.com/ The Neat Little Bookshop is pleased to display one of the artist's pieces available for purchase in our bookshop window.

". . . I'm going to imagine that I'm the wind that is blowing up there in those tree-tops. When I get tired of the trees I'll imagine I'm gently waving down here in the ferns ~ and then I'll fly over to Mrs. Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing ~ and then I'll go with one great swoop over the clover field ~ and then I'll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves. Oh, there's so much scope for imagination in a wind!"

Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. L. M. Montgomery, 1908

"Every day is a new beginning,
Every morn' is the world born new."
~ L. M . Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 1908
L . C. Page & Company Inc.

What drives entrepreneur Richard Branson?

". . . being in a position to change things, to keep learning and to be in a position to make a difference. Throughout my life I've been trying to get into that position, and now I'm in that position. I don't waste a minute of it. But I also have an attitude in life that however hard I'm working and however tired I am, you know, to make sure I just enjoy every single second of my life, and, you know, if you just make sure you enjoy every person you're with and every second of your life, the pleasure you're going to get out of life ~ and the pleasure you're going to give other people ~ is enormous."

~ The Optimist, One Man's Search For The Brighter Side of Life, p. 185, Lawrence Shorter, 2009 Doubleday Canada

Workshops Grindstone Creek Gallery ~ 16 King Street, downtown Cayuga

Two evenings of making your own pottery. For details and to register, visit http://www.grindstonecreekgallery.com/

Adults & childrens' classes. Includes clay, glaze, bisque and glaze firing.

Mondays Oct. 24 & Nov. 7 or

Wednesdays Nov. 9 & 16

7 - 9 p.m.

Instructor: Deb McBride

The Man Booker Prize for 2011 will be announced tonight. The six short-listed titles are:

The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes

Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch

The Sister's Brothers, Patrich deWitt

Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan

Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman

Snowdrops, A. D. Miller

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
Two Canadian authors made the list: Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan

Two first-time novelists made the list: Stephen Kelman and A. D. Miller

And the winner is: Julian Barnes ~ The Sense of An Ending

Graphics ~ The Sachem, Caledonia, Ontario

www.sachem.ca