Thursday, February 6, 2014


Remember:  St. Valentine's Day is Friday 14th.

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Looking West

Bridge Over the Grand ~ Progress

[Photos: Monday, Feb. 3/14 lbw]

Looking North-West Upstream
 
The New/Real Bridge Built Side-by-Side w/the Old
 
 
Ice and Snow is the Reality
[Please Note:  We have overcome a myriad of technical difficulties to finally bring you new photos of our bridge. For larger image, click on photo.]
 
 

Monday, February 3, 2014

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

~ Virginia Woolf (Jan. 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) British writer




"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (Nov. 30, 1874 - Jan. 24, 1965) Former Prime Minister United Kingdom.




Sunday, February 2, 2014


On learning of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor Jim Carrey said, "...for the most sensitive among us ~ the noise can be too much."

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967 - 2014)


[Think Spring! lbw]

Jane Austen ~ "lived through an eventful period in English andEuropean history, and her own life was also eventful and resonant with the interaction of personalities within and without her own family circle.  For her, people mattered more than art, family more than literature.
When a friend whom she was to visit asked her what books she was going to bring with her, she received the following typical retort:

You distress me cruelly by your request about books;  I cannot think of any to bring with me, nor have I any idea of our wanting them.  I come to you to be talked to, not to read or hear reading.  I can do that at home;..."

[Letter to Martha Lloyd, 12 November 1800]

~ Jane Austen, Brian Wilks, Galley Press, 1988.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) English novelist.

Saturday, February 1, 2014


Handsome gentleman Zeus
regularly visits the Neat L'l Bookshop.
(He brings his owner, Chris.)