"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness!  come."  

~ James Thomson (1700 - 1748) Scottish poet. 
The Seasons, Spring, Line 1

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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I~
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference/

~ Robert Frost

Talbot St. Looking West

View Through Our Dusty Window

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it." ~ Jules Renard (1864 - 1910) French author

Talbot St Looking East

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From Our Window

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Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed

Their snow-white blossoms on my head,

With brightest sunshine round me spread

Of Spring's unclouded weather

In this sequestered nook how sweet

To sit upon my orchard seat,

And birds and flowers once more to greet,

My last year's friends together.

~ William Wordsworth

~ Wm. Wordsworth, English Romantic Poet (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850)

"..above everything else, Emily Carr was a truly great Canadian.  Her devotion to her own land marked everything she did.  She approached no subject in writing or painting with any condescension of purely artistic self-consciousness.  She was driven always by a passion to make her own experience in the place in which life had set her vivid and real for the onlooker or the reader and to do this with dignity and distinction.  She found life in her part of Canada often hard and baffling but always rich and full.  It was her single purpose to share through the medium of her art and in as memorable a fashion as possible the experiences of her life."  ~ Ira Dilworth


~ Emily Carr (1871 - 1945) Canadian artist, author. The Emily Carr COLLECTION.  Four Complete and Unabridged Canadian Classics.Prospero Books.  www.keyporter.com 2002

Emily Carr Exhibition, "From the Forest to The Sea" April 11 - August 9, 2015, AGO Toronto, ON