Smile for Today:

"Find your own quiet centre of life, and write from that to the world."

~ Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist and short story writer (1849 - 1909).

Thought for Today:

"You must have a room, or a certain hour of the day or so when you do not know what was in the morning paper...a place where you can simply experience and bring for what you are, and what you might be."

~ Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987), American writer, recognized for his work in mythology and comparative religions.

Jane Austen ~ Haldimand County Museum

Haldimand County Museum & Archives Invites you to Attend a "DINNER WITH JANE AUSTEN."

Thursday April 22, 2010. Social: 6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner 6:30. Catered by The Gingerbread House and Flyer's Cafe. Cost $25 per person.

Tickets available at the Haldimand County Museum, 8 Echo St., Cayuga, ON (behind the Administration Building). Reservations and information: 905-772-5880.

To view larger image, click on poster.

nichegallery.co.uk: Visit of Queen Mary II to South Queensferry

There is a blog coming out of Edinburgh, Scotland, that we follow.

For those with a piece of their heart in Scotland, this blog is like a visit to the isle. Thank you to the staff of this small shop (it may be larger than we envision) close to the Firth of Forth. The photos that the proprietor shares on-line are reminiscent of our visits to the Borders, one-time home of our Turnbull family.

Check it out. The Niche Gallery has on-line shopping.


nichegallery.co.uk: Visit of Queen Mary II to South Queensferry

Photo: one of our favourites from Niche Gallery, First blog post January 2, 2010.

"Reflections of An Amber Moon"

Another beautiful landscape ~ available at the Neat Little Bookshop,

Scott C. Walker

(Framed or unframed)

Your Smile for Today:

"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."

Samuel Johnson, English Author (1709 - 1784)
Leo Rosten's Carnival of Wit, Plume/Penguin Books, 1994

Caw-Caw Ballads

"Readers who have contacted the genius of Wilson MacDonald through the heroic splendor of his Out of the Wilderness -- a book which has caused critics on both sides of the Atlantic to herald the arrival of a new Whitman on the North American Continent -- will rejoice in the quick, sharp satire of "Caw-Caw Ballads..." *

We leave it up to You, the Reader:

The Pepless Crow
A bearded old crow,
Who had lost his pep,
Said: "Clothes for crows
Is a very wise step."

So "Clothes for Crows"
Was the slogan planned
By the pepless birds
Of Caw-Caw land.

And they passed a bill
That was circumspec',
And ordered all crows
To be dressed to the neck.

And then, when a crow
Went bathing in her skin,
Ten young men crows
Came peeping in.

But the law was repealed
One September morn
For too many little
Black crows were born.

CAW-CAW BALLADS by Wilson MacDonald, (1880 - 1967)The Broadway Press, Buffalo, N.Y., 1930.
*Quotation from dustcover CAW-CAW BALLADS