Found: LOOKING FOR OLD ONTARIO

It is worth quoting from our missing book by Thomas F. McIlwraith *

"Roadside trees are as much a human-made element of rural Ontario as the ditch in front, the fence beneath, or the farmstead behind.  They give articulation to a landscape where the next-highest field feature may be the fence post.  Roadside trees are not remnants of clearing but were consciously reintroduced after that era [the culvert/ditches initiative] amid the widespread belief that trees 'for shade and ornament' contributed to the virtue of country life.  Poets were aroused by the frightening prospect of a treeless landscape, and Arbor Day plantings became regular spring events at country schools late in the nineteenth century."

Turnbull Road

Trees contribute to "the virtue of country life."

Tomorrow: [If we can hang onto the book...] The value of trees and local efforts to educate.
Photos:  Haldimand County

* University of Toronto Press Incorporated 1997.

If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done
   And counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard ~
   One glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine where it went
Then you may count that day well spent.

~ Mary Ann Evans, pen name: George Eliot  (1819 - 1889) English novelist.

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (18-3 - 1882)  American essayist, poet.


~ To See a World in a Grain of Sand, Caesar Johnson, C. R. Gibson Company.

[To "The Other Maria,"  Miss you. Please write!]



  

Waiting For Business

Bookshop Closed Today ~ Reopening on Wednesday

Located on Hwy 3 & Cayuga Street, The Neat L'l Bookshop is affected by the exciting revitalization of the village.  The streets and sidewalks are torn up to the extent that customer parking is difficult if not impossible.  Yesterday the long-awaited bridge opened; however, with only one lane using STOP and SLOW sign-crew,  traffic, including trucks, transports, large industrial equipment, farming equipment and every imaginable thing on wheels, there was a constant back-up at the traffic light at our corner.  Traffic merged from Cayuga Street, the business section. 
Travellers ~ most ~ were understanding; however, it was easy to see from our window that one traffic officer at the light could have kept traffic flowing comfortably ~ preventing the  jammed conditions on Hwy 3.  Eastbound vehicles crossing the new-bridge after being stopped for Westbound traffic, eventually rushed over the new bridge only to be stopped abruptly again at the light ~ most times unnecessarily.

Good luck, Cayuga, today.  Welcome visitors.  We will reopen on Wednesday, June 25.  Thank you for your understanding. ~ John & Lorna

 

 

Counting the Moments to Opening One Lane of the Long-Awaited New Bridge

 



 

 

 

 

Brendon Keeping Cayuga Beautiful

The Bridge

Nearing Completion