Friends ~
"What do we affect during our lifetime?
What, ultimately, is our legacy?
I believe, in most cases, our legacy is our friends.

We write our history onto them, and they walk with us
Though our days like time capsules, filled with our
mutual past, the fragments of our hearts and our minds.

Our friends get our uncensored questions
and our yet-to-be reasoned opinions.  Our friends grant
us the chance to make our grand, embarrassing, contradictory pronouncements about the world.

They get the very best, and are struck with the absolute
worst, we have to offer.  Our friends get our rough drafts.
Over time, they both open our eyes and break our hearts."
~Author Unknown

Dedicated to our dear friend and mentor, Dorothy, with gratitude and love.  Best Wishes, Dorothy.

Gram's Books ~

Dorothy's Collectibles

The saying goes something like this, "The road to a friend's is a short one."  There are special folks with whom one looks forward to spending time.  Today we spent part of the morning with one special lady.

Dorothy has owned a bookshop for over thirty years, having started out small, we presume ~ it was before our time ~ and over the years built up a circle of friends and thousands of books.  Probably just as many friends.

Dorothy, we wish you health.  Take precious care of yourself.  We will see you again soon.

Buckingham Palace posted on Twitter, "And We're Off! The #diamondjubilee weekend begins."  (That says it all in fewer than 140 characters!)

It was 1953.  The fashion magazines were featuring the new rayon fabric.  A British expedition under Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest.  An armistice was signed in the Korean War. Winston Churchill was preparing his Coronation speech.

~ Long Live The Queen! Britain in 1953, Peter Street, Sutton Publishing, 2003.

Annual Dog Show ~



Must be something in This For Me . . .



Caledonia, Ontario

Alice Guthrie of Hagersville, Ontario

The Red & White Irish Setter

Visit http://www.newhopecrossfire.com/
Wayne and Alice Guthrie, Haldimand, Ontario


Photos:  lbwalker

Thought for Today ~

"Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of."

~ Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909) American writer

Thought for Today ~


"I reckon I need:  a cook-housekeeper, a daily woman twice a week for cleaning, and a gardener, all loyal unpaid slaves.  However, in their absence, I try to juggle all these things with a minimum of time and effort ... Also, I would like a secretary to cope with all my business letters.  The only writers I've ever heard of who had all these various helpmates were invariable members of the Eng upper classes.  We soldier on, cussing somewhat.
"All well here, really.  Odd, though.  I love this place. . ."  ~ Margaret Laurence

A Very Large Soul, Selected letters from Margaret Laurence, edited by J.A. Wainwright, Cormorant Books,1995.

"No Time to Stand and Stare. . ."

"What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep and cows?"

~ Wm. Henry Davies, "Leisure" (1871 - 1940)  Welsh poet and writer

Photo:  Riverside Park, Cayuga.  lbwalker