St. Williams Forestry Norfolk Today

"The phough is seldom put into the land before the third or fourth year, nor is it required; the general plan of cropping the first fallow with wheat or oats, and sowing grass-seeds with the grain to make pastures, renders the plough unnecessary till such time as the grass-lands require to be broken up.  This method is pursued by most settlers while they are clearing bush-lands; always chopping and burning enough to keep a regular succession of wheat and spring crops, while the former clearings are allowed to remain in grass." ~ Catharine Parr Traill (1802, 1899)

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/moodie-traill/027013-3000-e.html

"For myself, though I can easily enter into the feelings of the poet and the enthusiastic lover of the wild and the wonderful of historic lore, I can yet make myself very happy and contented in this country.  If its volume of history is yet a blank, that of Nature is open, and eloquently marked by the finger of God; and from its pages I can extract a thousand sources of amusement and interest when ever I take my walks in the forest or by the borders of the lakes."

~ The Backwoods of Canada Catharine Parr Traill Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, McClelland & Stewart, Limited, 1929.

Smile for Today ~

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight:  always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

~ Sir James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) Scottish author, creator of Peter Pan.

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Andy Warhol August 6, 1986 Birthday

"All day people just whispered Happy Birthday, they didn't say it out loud.  Paige was getting together an advertising dinner for that night, which I was afraid was just going to be a birthday dinner disguised, so I told her she'd better have at least four advertisers there or there'd be trouble.
"...Got to Caffe Roma at 8:00...And there was a Polaroid guy there, and I finally told him that if Polaroid didn't advertise at this point, I was never going to use their name again in my life, and he said, 'Oh don't say that, don't let it mean we can't be friends.'  And he gave me something he said was very meaningful to him (laughs) ~ it was a Polaroid.  Of a sunset."

~ The ANDY WARHOL DIARIES edited by Pat Hackett, Warner Books, Copyright 1989 Estate of Andy Warhol.

(Note:  There is a webcam of Andy Warhol's gravesite today.)



Aug.6/28 - Feb.22/87

(Portrait by J. Mitchell, Source Wikipedia)

Poison Ivy n. a N. American climbing plant, Rhus radicans, secreting an irritant oil from its leaves.

Harvest

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