Denise Hart & Dan Romanoski

Love Trees?  Contact any of the dedicated stewards in your area.

Denise Hart of Haldimand Stewardship Council

www.hnstewardshipcouncils.org 

Greg Greer, Field Adviser with Trees Ontario ~ one of several guest speakers at PLANT TREES

Getting ready for PLANT TREES workshop are Stephan Prior, Chair of Land Care Niagara; Michelle Martin, LCN staff and Denise Hart, Resource Manager HNStewardship Council

Stephan Prior, Michelle Martin & Denise Hart

Smile for Today ~

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." ~ Ernest Hemingway

"I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller."
~ Michael Palin (b. 1965) English actor, writer, known for Monty Python.  (b. 1965).

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable.  It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
~ Clifton Fadiman, (1904 - 1999) American writer, author, T.V. & radio personality. [Opinion:  Can we post this in every airport? lbw]

"Our desire to find or create the perfect home can be sentimental or practical; aesthetic, or deeply emotional.  The compulsion is often fierce, obsessive, even reckless.  The longing emerges out of a private mythology, formed from dreams dreamt long ago in childhood, from images found in children's books, and in reveries of the past.  "Home" takes imaginary form as a place where people are kind, where children flourish, where profound ceremonies are celebrated.  At home there is warmth, light, and comfort.  There is food in abundance; full tables give shape to our idea of holidays.  To these quiet, essential human imaginings, the paintings of Canadian artists offer their own special tribute."

~ Joan Murray, Oshawa, Ontario.  CELEBRATING HOME ~ A Collection of Canada's Best-Loved Painters, Prospero Books, 2008.

Journals can be as sophisticated or as simple as the writer chooses.  In Sophia MacNab's journal she wrote, "I have now finished writing this book through and it has taken me nearly seven months.  I am twenty one.  My dear Momma told me to keep one always and if I keep it until I am twenty one I will have written thirteen volumes.  I only hope that I may have the perseverance to continue it," Sophia wrote on July 8th., 1846.

Some of us may feel like Sophia did on one particular day:

"I think is would do almost as well to write one day and copy all the next from it, there is so little variety....it is useless to give such a long detail of each day, so I am merely going to put that we went through the usual 'routine'."

THE DIARY of SOPHIE MACNAB, written at Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, 1846 age 13.  W.L. Griffi Printing, 1968.

Study in Gardens

"I run back into the woods with their serene perplexities, their fathomless deeps and singing fresh green tips.  These days when the sun is bright they just chuckle with glory and joy."

"There are themes everywhere, something sublime, something ridiculous, or joyous, or calm, or mysterious.  Tender youthfulness laughing at gnarled oldness.  Moss and ferns, and leaves and twigs, but only apparently tied up in stillness and silence.  You must be still in order to hear and see."

~ Emily Carr, HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS.

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"Oh to be still enough to hear and see and know the glory of the sky and earth and sea!" ~ Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands

~ Emily Carr, EMILY CARR COUNTRY, Portrayed by Courtney Milne, 2001.McClelland & Stewart Ltd.