Smile for Today ~

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill found a fascination in books as material objects and expressed a sentiment familiar to many book lovers:

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them ~ peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are.  Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances."

~ Churchill and Chartwell

"Pulling for Krista" ~ get well xo

Kids ~ Stay awhile ~ Read a book

We now have sidewalks!  We have two-hour parking spaces on Talbot Street!

Vehicles Parked for Long Durations (i.e. several days) Get Ticketed...

Highway Traffic

We maintain the "Quiet Little Cayuga Corner" inside!

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.

And sweetest in the gale is heard,
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

~ Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) American poet

Pretty Little Village

...now if we could just get a public parking lot

[Photos: Monday, July 27  lbw]

View From Bookshop Window ~ Overflow from Wrecking Yard

Adjacent Business Occupying two of three Parking Spaces

PUBLIC PARKING LOT FOR CAYUGA ?

Yes, it is called "shaming" ~ we have appealed to our representatives.  We will continue to make folks aware of the on-going issue of the lack of public parking in Cayuga.  The county included in the official "Streetscape Plan" drawings and description of parking lots - all privately owned, privately maintained.  And ~ the county collects business taxes from the very "property owners" that they identify as parking areas.  We are requesting a public parking lot close to the downtown businesses.  "Haldimand County Streetscape Plan" identifies the downtown as "historic" and a tourist area.

We will continue to post updates on Facebook.  Downtown has lost several tourist- friendly businesses and whether the county addresses the problem of parking will determine the future of remaining businesses, including the bookshop.

[photos: lbw]