If I should stay, I would only be in your way
So I 'll go but I know I'll think of you every step of the way.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You my darling, you ~ mhhh.
Better sweet memories,
That is all I'm taking with me.
So goodbye, please don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
~ Interlude ~
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you dreamed of.
And I'm wishing you joy and happiness,
But above all this, I wish you love.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you
I will always love you
I will always love you
You, Darling. I'll always, I'll always love you.

~ written by Dolly Parton , Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard (1992)
Postcard Collection Courtesy John Walker

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 historic 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.