Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Available at The Neat L'l Bookshop

Grand Valley Trails Celebrated 40 years.
Visit www.gvta.on.ca

From Rock Point Provincial Park to Alton, ON (near Orangeville) hikers have helped establish a popular trail focused on the Heritage Grand River.

Village of York on The Grand



Tuesday, May 21, 2013

All Your Gardening Needs
Cayuga and District Chamber of Commerce ~

has a new President, John Edelman, owner of Haldimand Motors.  A whole new movement is afoot!  Cayuga businesses are actively participating in a cooperative media blitz to show the wonderful services available in our district.

Many of you already have a Facebook profile.  Good or bad ~ is it any different than most things?  Facebook is a powerful tool when one wants to reach potential customers.  Facebook is even holding tutoring classes on Parliament Hill for members of Parliament.  There's gotta be something to this.

Check out Cayuga-on-the-Grand, Haldimand Motors, Grand Attractions, etc. and be amazed at the opportunities right here in our community.

Monday, May 20, 2013


Remnants of Pioneer Days ~ Haldimand County
Pierre Berton ~  "I had always seen this quartet of books ~ The National Dream, The Last Spike, Klondike, and now The Promised Land ~ as an epic story that began with John A. Macdonald's dream of a continental railway."

Describing the Winnipeg railway platform, "a gateway to the West" Berton calls it a "symbol for those two formative decades in the country's history...The platform had known the tread of many feet....a springboard for settlement."

Let us forever keep Victoria Day honouring the history of our Canada

* Pierre Berton (1920 - 2004) Non-fiction Canadian Author, best known for his Canadiana and Canadian history.  The Joy of Writing, Doubleday Canada, 2003.






Bring me the sunset in a cup,
     Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew ;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
     Who spun the breadths of blue !

Write me how many notes there be
In the new robin's ecstasy
     Among astonished boughs ;
How many trips the tortoise makes,
How many cups the bee partakes, ~
     The debauchee of dews !

PROBLEMS by Emily Dickenson

Photo:  Mount Olivet, Haldimand County

Sunday, May 19, 2013


by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

IF I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

American poet (Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886)

Photo:  Mount Olivet, Haldimand County, May 2013. lbw



These beautiful pictures of Mount Olivet are courtesy of Kimberly Jeffrey of Grindstone Creek Gallery.  Taken on her iPad Mini, May18, 2013.

Mount Olivet Rd., Haldimand



Saturday, May 18, 2013

All is Quiet
The New Bridge?

All is Quiet on the Waterfront ~ Some wonder what is happening with construction of the new bridge...

(Photos:  Friday, May 17, lbw)