Notes From My Easel

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Archive for June, 2007

Thunderstorms

Posted: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 @ 9:15 pm in Thoughts | No Comments »

Another birthday has passed and although weather-wise the day was typically perfect, I can’t help feeling that it should have been today instead.
Some of the most important occasions in my life have been marked with the onset of a thunderstorm; in fact, I was born during one.  Today there was an incredible storm that brought half of a chestnut [...]

City Hall landscaping – some solutions (part two)

Posted: Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 @ 11:44 am in My City | No Comments »

I don’t want to complain about the disgraceful state of City Hall’s public square without offering some partial solutions to the Mayor’s ‘eyesore of concrete’ in front of Hamilton’s City Hall.
Realizing that there is a city union and also paid suppliers of plants and flowers for the city, I would like to propose the utilization [...]

City Hall landscaping – the problem (part one)

Posted: Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 @ 6:53 pm in My City | No Comments »

I noticed the article on the eyesore of concrete in front of the City Hall in the Hamilton Spectator today www.thespec.com.  While I am not as old as the Mayor, I do remember there always being a lot of concrete.  It was, however, broken up by the array of ornate flower beds, topiary and beautiful fountains that surged [...]

The calm ‘during’ the storm

Posted: Friday, June 8th, 2007 @ 6:11 pm in Thoughts | No Comments »

I ended up driving home today during rush hour just as a flash, summer storm hit.  Now that James Street South is two-way instead of one, rush hour is as bad as you would expect it to be.  Today it was made so much worse by the fact that the storm knocked out all of [...]

My corner of the world

Posted: Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 @ 7:42 pm in My City | No Comments »

Some cities have very distinct neighborhoods.  I live in one of those cities.  Century-old chestnuts line a street of Brownstones, apartments, stately, old homes and what once were the 19th. century mansions of Hamilton’s elite.  My neighborhood, on first glance, could be one of the older areas of New York, or Toronto, or any other [...]

Welcome to the web log of Hamilton artist Kathryn Smith

Posted: Friday, June 1st, 2007 @ 2:25 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Welcome to my Hamilton Blog site.  It will be starting soon.
For those of you who would like to know, my web mistress is Marie.  www.successfulalternatives.biz
Kathryn