Smile for Today ~

"I start every morning with the New York Times.  The first thing I do when I get up is read the obituary column.  If my names isn't in it, I get dressed."
~ Alan King (1927 - 2004) American actor, comedian.

"Do you know the first thing I do every day?  I read the New York Times obituary page, because maybe a pianist has died somewhere."
~ Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)  Noted Polish-American pianist.

"I always turn to the sports page first.  The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page nothing but man's failure."
~ Earl Warren (1891 - 1974) 14th Chief Justice of U.S.A.

~ True Confessions, Compiled by Jon Winokur, Penguin Books, 1992.



The Morning Sun

 Photography is sometimes a funny coincidence.

Smile for Today ~

In the course of conversation at an American dinner party Einstein's neighbor, a young girl, asked the white-haired professor:  "What are you actually by profession?"  Einstein replied:  "I devote myself to the study of physics."
The girl looked at him in astonishment.  "You mean to say you study physics at your age?"  she exclaimed.  "I finished mine a year ago."

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, 1885.





Clearing the Ice

  Bitterly Chilly ~ Progress on the Bridge ~ Photos:  Tuesday March 5

Three Caissons




Construction of Caissons on South Side

 

Cayuga Mutual Overlooking The Grand River

Upon discovery of a valley and a beautiful stream, Alexander Graham Bell observed, "Now just think of that.  Here was a beautiful gorge, half a mile long, right on my own place, and coming at one point within fifty feet of a well-trodden road ~ and I never knew of its existence before!  We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut.  There are things all around us, and right at our very feet, that we have never seen:  because we have never really looked.
"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone, and following one after the other like a flock of sheep.  Leave the beaten track occasionally..."

~ GENIUS AT WORK Images of Alexander Graham Bell, Dorothy Harley Eber, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1982.

(Photos: Ouse Street ~ Around the corner from the bookshop)



Early Telephone Operator, Brantford



BIRTHDAY OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ~  March 3, 1847

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland March 3, 1847.  Bell eventually held three citizenships:  U.K., Canadian and U.S.A.

Bell Homestead ~ Brantford Ontario

"Some of the old people thought the man was foolish to spend so much time flying kites. 'It seems like a damn fool thing to do,' they'd say.  And I can hear Dr. Bell laugh yet when he heard that.  He'd throw back his head and his whiskers would bounce.  'They think I'm some kind of nut,' he'd say.  'You're a useful nut,' I'd tell him.  They'd classified him as one." ~ Mayme Morrison Brown, neighbour.

Born in Edinburgh Scotland, the innovator, inventor, teacher eventually held three citizenships:  U.K., Canadian and U.S.A.  Bell died in Nova Scotia, Canada, August 2, 1922 at the age of seventy-five.

www.bellhomestead.ca

~ Genius At Work Images of Alexander Graham Bell, Dorothy Harley Eber, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1982.
(Photos:  Summer 2012 lbw. Click on photo for larger image.)

IMPORTANT

The Council in Committee meeting re:  SUNDAY GUN HUNTING in Haldimand County has been postponed.  We will post future date as soon as available.