PICTURES IN GLASS by Harold Robertson

When he retired, Harold Robertson took a year and a half to decide what he was going to do with his time.  After working seven days a week, sitting around with his coffee and playing with the cats was not going to do it for him.
The art of stained glass takes skill, an artist's eye for colour and design, definitely patience and perseverance and most important a love of the work.  He has never looked back.
Thank you, Harold for sharing your techniques, your craftsmanship with us today.
Photographs cannot do justice to Harold's stained-glass art;  as the morning sun changes to afternoon and evening a stunning new picture appears.  Depending on glass carefully chosen for its qualities from the wide selection available, an artist's work becomes unique.  To view some of this artist's work visit www.haroldrobertson.blogspot.com 

Smile for Today ~

Mark Twain said, "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

~ letter to Mrs. Foote, 2 December 1887, in B. DeCasseres When Huck Finn Went Highbrow (1934)



Chandelier from Mark Twain's home

 [Correction:  Walt Witman may have been a man of contradiction but the only contradiction here is our error in identifying the chandelier.  It belonged to Mark Twain, not Whitman.  Our thanks to Jeremy Henatyzen who made the correction.]

Mark Twain said, "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes.  Or needs to."


Mark Twain's chandelier hanging in The Powerhouse, Stoney Creek, Ontario, is one of many items collected by the restaurant's original owner.

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
~ Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) American poet, 'Song of Myself' (written 1855) pt. 51.
www.thepowerhouse.ca  Photo: lbw

Thought for Today ~

"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."

~ Ray Kroc (1905 - 1984) American Businessman, best known for establishing McDonald's Corp.

Dustin Vallier & Josh Cannon

For Josh and Dustin a few additions to the village skate-board pad is foremost in their minds today.  We found them in a serious discussion sitting side-by-side on the concrete ~ discussing fund-raising.  A lofty goal for a seventeen and eighteen year old.  It seems that if they could rebuild the Plexiglas ramps that some thoughtless individual or individuals burned and replace the missing wooden ramps with steel, they would be able to do the regular jumps and grinds.  Ideally, they would like to be able to do "peg stalls ~ turn back into the quarter."  [I think we have that right.  Josh tries to demonstrate but without a rail . . .]

For now they ride around in a few circles and sit down again.  The village doesn't have a lot for an eighteen year old to do.

Happy Father's Day

Father of Leonard Bernstein, the great U.S. composer, conductor and pianist, when criticized for not having given his talented son more encouragement when he was a child, said, "How was I to know he would grow up to be Leonard Bernstein?"

Happy Father's Day

~THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes,  Clifton Fadiman General Editor, 1985.
(Photo: family files lbw)
Read more. . . YOUR NAME ~ You got it from your father...

Thought for Today ~

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American author,  Life's Little Instruction Book


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