Visit Marg's website http://www.seekingspirit.ca/  We are looking forward to the author's visit this Saturday, 1:00 p.m., May 12.

Please join us.  "Coffee and tea pot's Always On"



Ed Sullivan of Grand River Kayak

 http://www.southcoastpaddlesports.ca/ 

Treks in The Wild



Andy & Valerie Tonkin and Sons ~A Perfect Day for kayaking/ canoeing on The Grand.  http://www.treksinthewild.com/

First Arrivals ~ Sunday Morning Grand Island BBQ Dunnville  ~ Village-on-the-Grand

1st. Annual "Southcoast Paddlesports Symposium"




Laura Secord's Homestead, Queenston, Ontario

 
On the evening of June 21,1813, Canadian Laura Secord set out on a treacherous journey on foot from Queenston to  St. Catharines to warn the British that the Americans were planning an attack on Beaver Dams near Thorold. 


Preserved & in the Safekeeping of The Niagara Parks Commission

 

A generous grant by Laura Secord Inc. made possible the preservation of this historic site. North-west corner of Queen and Partition streets.
Photos: lbwalker M

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  They are but trifles, to be sure, but, scattered along life's pathways, the good they do is inconceivable."

~ Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English essayist, poet.

View from Our Window ~  If you've been to the bookshop this week you have seen the pet-shop sign.

Playing in the hobby of nostalgic paper as we do, old periodicals show up.  This one, "Sunshine Magazine" from 1970, caught my eye I suppose because of the word SUNSHINE on a particularly dreary day.

"A wise man goeth forth cheerily, through fair weather and through foul.  He knoweth his journey must be sped, so he carrieth his sunshine with him." is the magazine's tag line.

The real focus of my attention was this quaint ad for PenDelfins.  Are these not the cute little figures that bring astonishingly high prices today?

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."



~George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) Scottish author