The Kingston experience



Kingston





80 acres pano-view


Prelude



'Freedom lies in being bold.'

 -Robert Frost



80 acres
Hope and Sandy



'What lies behind us and what lies before us 
are tiny mattlers compared to what lies within us.'

-Ralph Waldo Emerson









A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever
-Keats






The gorgeous pastoral Milliken Farm


Grass Creek Park
Kingston



'The best and most beautiful things in the
world cannot be seen or even touched - they
must be felt with the heart.'

-Helen Keller


The sheep arrive
Alf sets the course



Very pampered happy sheep












     The shepherd drives the wolf from the 
sheep for which the sheep thank the shepherd
as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.  Plainly,
the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a 
definition of liberty.

-Abraham Lincoln


The canvas being painted
by Dorey



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Turning the lower post with Feist

Feist at home on
the banks of the
Saint Lawrence River








Finale of the Finale


'The woods are lovely, dark and deep.  But I
have promises to keep, and miles to go
before I sleep.'

-Robert Frost



'Poetry is when an emotion has
found its thought and the thought has found words.'

 Robert Frost


Feist/Mary Kingston SDT



'A poem begins in delight and
ends in wisdom'
-Robert Frost

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