PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER

SUMMER fading, winter comes ~
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books.

Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story-books.

All the pretty things put by,
Wait upon the children's eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
In the picture story-books.

We may see how all things are,
Seas and cities, near and far,
And the flying fairies' looks,
In the picture story-books.

How am I to sing your praise,
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
Reading picture story-books.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson (Nov. 13, 1850 - Dec. 3, 1894)  Scottish novelist, poet.

"Do you know what it is to be a child?  It is to be something very different from the man of today.  It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of life;   it is to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief;  it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness and nothing into everything...for each child has a fairy godmother in its soul."
 
~ Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) English poet, writer.
 

Familiar?  Came From Niagara Falls

Over the Bridge Find RIVER 3 FAMILY RESTAURANT

The Famous Mountie Stands Guard at RIVER 3

We voted.  NOW CAN WE GET THE BRIDGE FIXED?

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Benches Downtown

 

 

 

The Reality ~

 

Construction on the new bridge came to an abrupt stop last fall when members of the Haudenosaunee Development Institute - representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council - claimed they had not been consulted.

 

[Photos: October 2015 lbw]

 

 



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