Sepia Lighthouse

This week's Sepia Saturday theme peripherally involves a lighthouse on an antique postcard... and I just happen to have a fitting entry in my collection, sent to my paternal grandmother seven years before my father was born.

Family historian though I am, I have no idea who cousin Camilla was. She must have been related to Jessie Bentley's relatives on the Daniels or Orr sides.

This park, and specifically the presumably decorative lighthouse, prove to have been popular postcard fodder.  Here's a bit more information about the park from another card...

And lastly, from Ebay, here's another copy of the card at the top of this page, sent a few years later to a Miss Vanderhoff at the Shredded Wheat Company in Niagara Falls!

Wasted Space?

There's an attitude prevalent among some in our city that a park is not fulfilling its purpose if it's not stuffed with people (such as soccer players) at all times, and therefore we ought to install artificial turf playing fields to increase usage.

Our neighborhood, Newport Hills, has a single 4-acre park under this threat (under the guise of being an improvement). One of the many, many things the plan fails to take into account, not the least of which is the toxic qualities of the stuff, is that the elderly, the very young, the handicapped, and the large population of citizens who are not sports players not only do not benefit from an artificial turf field but are deprived of their grassy landscape which they can walk or roll around on, smell, and not least of all simply enjoy the restful nature of. Operative word, "nature."

The following are scenes of "fallow" parkland. Should they be ripped up because no one is currently there?