The birth of a New Year is a time of reflection, bringing with it an opportunity for change….for developing a greater appreciation of what is most important in life. ~Victoria magazine
We can take delight entering into this New Year of 2017 with Anne’s words of hope……
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… Yet.”
~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
I hope you are having a wonderful start to your New Year!!
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it”
It was NOVEMBER ~ the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. ~ LM Montegomery – Anne of Green Gables
Crimson sunsets…..
Parting birds
Good bye November
“It’s not what the world for you. It’s what you bring to it.”
– LM Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
November sea
I love sitting on the rock and listening to the …..Hymns of the Sea
I love the sad songs of the sea. The roaring sounds of the waves hitting the rocks splashing into the air are breath – takingly beautiful !!!
Whispering pines along Lovers Lane……
“It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other
~” LM Montgomery.
Isn’t it lovely the peace that nature can bring to us, if we just take the time to stop listen and take in the beauty and calm even in among turbulence – that’s the wonder of nature and friendship – love!
I hope you have had a wonderful November and a very Blessed Happy Thanksgiving.
~Melissa
P.S. If you are in need of a delicious pumpkin pie recipe – stop by T.T. & family site where they are sharing a recipe from their family cookbook.
“God’s in his Heaven all’s right with the world” ~ Anne of Green Gables, L.M.M.
P.E.I. has many delightful light houses. You are able to climb to the top in many of them. I do so enjoy the view from up there – a little closer to heaven!!
The world certainly does seem a lot calmer when we slow down and take in the tranquil beauty around us. (stop thinking quite so hard, or just take a break for a little while!)
Take Joy ~ Melissa
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“After all, the only real roses are pink ones. They are the flowers of love and faith.” ~ Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is beautiful….
It is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face……
Every fair sky….
Every fair flower.
….of Love and Faith!
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” Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it” ~ LMM
Dan and I ~just having a little fun around P.E.I.
A Beautiful mermaid sand sculpture.
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion….. but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with the perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Girl welcoming you to Prince Edward Island. And wishing my red-head girl ~ a very happy birthday – tomorrow. I hope you have a very lovely day ~ Chrissy!
Melissa of Green Gables 😉
Dan of Green Gables ;-0
Ceramic Dolls…Marilla and Anne ~ waiting to be painted!
Welcome back to our Sunday ” Tea with Anne”. During today’s tea let’s take a visit to the real “White Sands Hotel” ~ Dalvay By The Sea! But first to help get us in the “kindred Spirit” mood let us watch and listen to ~ Anne reciting “The Highwayman” at “The White Sands Hotel” as in the Anne of Green Gables movie by Sullivan entertainment.
Here is the sections Anne recited:
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding–
Riding–riding–
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize tonight,
But I shall [return] with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.”
Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky,
With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.
Blood-red were his spurs in the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat;
When they shot him down on the highway.
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat.
Looks like a nice cozy spot for a cup of Tea.
As Tasha Tudor would say “If you took some chamomile tea and spent more time rocking on the porch in the evening, listening to the liquid song of the hermit thrush. you might enjoy life more. Joy is there for the taking.”
Amelia Evans Recitation at the White Sand concert: The Wreak of the Hesperus ~ Ho! ho! the breakers roared At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! [God] save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman’s Woe! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lines 76-78
Can you see Anne up there on the top of the red cliff …….working on her novel….
Where is sleep?” “Over the mountains of the moon. Down the valley of the shadow. Beneath the waves of the deep gulf stream,” replied the handsome duke in dark languid tones… In dark languid tones…… In dark foreboding, foreboding tones.
He fervently stroked her alabaster brow. She fell under his cloak of darkness.
….just someone hopping by!
The name of the hotel used to portray Avonlea’s famed White Sands Hotel is actually Dalvay By-The-Sea and it lies approximately 25 minutes North East of Charlottetown, P.E.I. Dalvay’s first appearance as The White Sands came in Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel when the wind sends the pages of Anne Shirley’s novel blowing across the sand. As the sheets of paper flutter into the air, a beautiful seaside hotel can be seen in the distance. From that moment on The White Sands Hotel and Dalvay by the Sea became one and the same. After Anne: The sequel, Dalvay by the Sea once again became The White Sands Hotel on Sullivan’s Road to Avonlea. Over the course of seven seasons, The White Sands appeared in so many episodes it became almost a character unto itself. Countless memorable scenes including both the regular cast and guest stars alike took place in the White Sands Dining Room, Kitchen, corridors and rooms.
The Historically Speaking……
The house was originally built in 1895 by Alexander MacDonald, who was a successful businessman and former president of Standard Oil Company with John D. Rockefeller. Having left his native home of Scotland to seek his fortune, MacDonald traveled a great deal for business before eventually marrying his wife Laura Palmer in 1862. After losing their first born and only son, the pair decided to take a long extended vacation and decided to visit Prince Edward Island. They brought their young daughter Laura with them.
MacDonald became enraptured by the Island, and quickly decided to purchase 120 acres of land on the north shore. Building began in 1895 and was complete four years later. He decided to name the property “Dalvay By-The-Sea” after his boyhood home in Scotland. The family spent summers in their childhood home, spending upwards of $10,000 a year on operation fees (butlers, servant, housemaids, cooks, caretakers,etc.).
During his last visit in 1909, Alexander was not well. When he had to leave at the end of summer and return for business to America, he requested that the horses stop for a moment. He stood alone for a while quietly gazing at his beloved house. He said quietly, “Good-bye Dalvay.” Several months later, he died in 1910 in Long Beach, California and never was able to return. The family turned over the rights of the property to PEI Parks Canada in the 1950s, and since it has become a historic property operated now under DP Murphy Hotels & Resorts.
The MacDonald Family
I do hope you have enjoyed our visit to ” The White Sands Hotel” as much as I have. Thank you for joining me and please do stop by for our next Tea with Anne on Prince Edward Island. Have a wonderful day or evening!!
“After all, the only real roses are pink ones. They are the flowers of love and faith.” ~ Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables
Do you hear them calling you in ~ for a heavenly ~ sniff?
I think the lovely Wild Roses on Prince Edward Island have such a lovely aroma. As you walk near a rose-bush the romantic aroma draws you closer and closer until you have a your nose embed in one ~ you just can not resist!! And adding to their romantic beauty ~ is that you find these lovely rose bushes growing by the sea!!
“Isn’t it lovely? Don’t you think it must be glad to be a rose? Wouldn’t it be nice if roses could talk? I’m sure they could tell us such lovely things. And isn’t pink the most bewitching color in the world?” ~ Anne of Green Gables
Not only are roses lovely to look at ~ have such a heavenly scent ~ they also hold many health benefits . Do every have delicious tasting you use tea that contain some rosehips? I do I love the romantic red color they add to the tea! I It lends a lovely shade of pinkish red when infused in some honey ~ to add to your Tea or a little rose hip marmalade, for your Tea Time scones. Have you ever made your own rose-water from the beautiful petals of the wild rose? You can use the water in baking or in your home-made cosmetics.
I like to call this lighthouse ~ The Wild Rose Lighthouse ~ although I have seen many wild rose-bushes and lighthouse on P.E.I. 😉 I hope your having a Lovely Day!
For Today Tea Time with Anne, we will visit the Lower Bedeque School, where Lucy Maud Montgomery taught. The schoolhouse has a nice, kinda of romantic past. The schoolhouse was very dilapidated, when the community decided to restore it ~ what an under taking, but I’m so glade they did it. There are many replicas in the schoolhouse a long with a couple of dresses donated from the musical productions of ~ Anne and Gilbert. So pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy the schoolhouse. I’ll share the love story / affair at the end.
Restoration of the school house…
Pictures of the Schoolhouse restorations.
The beautiful shores around lovely Bedeuque
Prince Edward Island boast many beautiful lighthouse!
The train station where a red-headed orphan, awaited Matthews arrival
The Love Story ~ Affair, as shared with us on our visit to the Museum. While teaching at the Schoolhouse, Lucy Maud Montgomery~( Author of the Anne of Green Gables Books), boarded with a neighboring family, which was the custom long ago. While boarding there ~ Lucy fell in love with the family’s son, but he was a farmer and her maternal grandmother did not think he was good enough for Maud (as they called her) ~ so Maud ended the relationship!! I do believe she later regretted this!
“Gods in His Heaven all’s right with the world ” Anne Shirley
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Welcome back, to our Anne of Green Gables Tea Time tour of P.E.I. Please do pour yourself a cup of tea and join me, as we take a stroll down Lover’s Lane.
‘Dear old world….
‘Dear old world….
You are very lovely,
And I am glad to be
ALIVE in you!”
~ Anne of Green Gables
A stroll down lovers lane…
What a Splendid Day!!
~ Anne of Green Gables
“Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this”
~ Anne of Green Gables
Lover’s Lane P.E.I.
“Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover’s Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was.” ~ Anne of Green Gables – LMM
Lover’s Lane Willowmere at Green Gables on P.E.I.
” Maples are such sociable trees,” said Anne; “they’re always rustling and whispering to you”
~ Anne of Green Gables
I agree with Anne, I love listening to the rustling whisper of the trees!
But the Birch Path is one of the prettiest places in the world, Marilla.” It was……
But the Birch Path is one of the prettiest places in the world, Marilla.”
It was. Other people besides Anne thought so when they stumbled on it. It was a little narrow, twisting path, winding down over a long hill straight through Mr. Bell’s woods, where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond. It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead. Now and then you might see a rabbit skipping across the road if you were quiet–which, with Anne and Diana, happened about once in a blue moon. Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up the spruce hill to the school.
“It has always seemed to me, ever since childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, I was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite inside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond – only a glimpse – but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.” ~ LMM
I hope you enjoyed our little stroll through Lover’s Lane. Please do stop by and join me for our next Tea Time with Anne on Prince Edward Island.
Welcome ~ Thank you for dropping by , on this lovely June Day. Pour a cup of tea and join me on our next stop on Prince Edward Island! Pictured above ~ a lovely porcelain ~ Anne doll, she stands about 5 inches ~ please join our future Tea Times, because Anne may have guest stop by!! Then we have, my very pretty, bone china tea-cup, made in England. It depicts a lovely view of Green Gables. I purchased this cup, in one (yes, there is more than one), of the Green Gables museums. My cup is from the second museum, we will visit there on a future visit. I purchased my Anne Doll from the Silver Bush Green Gables Museum. The book is from the Ingleside Museum~ the museum / home of L.M. Montgomery’s father and Grandfather. We will also visit there, on a future tea time with Anne. There is a great story related to our purchase of my Anne of Green gables book~ from the 1940’s, with a special inscription!! So make sure to follow my blog ,so you do not miss any of our Tea with Anne ~ visits to P.E.I.
On our visit today, we are going to stop by the Anne Of Green Gables, Silver Bush Museum at Park Corner. All photo’s are from our visit to this beautiful museum, Anne Of Green Gables at silver Bush, Park Corner, P.E.I. ~
The Anne of Green Gables Museum at Silver Bush, Park Corner has a treasure around every corner. On this 110-acre property you will find a museum with beautiful flower gardens on the property, a view of the Lake of Shining Waters, Matthews Carriage Rides with some of the most beautiful scenery on Prince Edward Island.
This is Matthew and his carriage. Matthew, as we all know is a very quiet man, but very willing to answer any questions you may have about Anne and L.M.M.
Melissa, at the Lake at the lake of shining water. A lovely dream come true ~ standing by ‘The Lake of Shining Water’!!
Now, back in the carriage….
Winding through the lovely red roads, on Matthew’s carriage ride….
Matthew has taken us to the lovely red seashores of P.E.I. ……
…where we took a romantic stroll on the seashores of Green Gables!
…the smooth beauty of drift wood!
Oh, what treasures and memories, the seashore holds!!
The romantic seashores of Green Gables….
Taking in the beauty of the red cliffs, along the seashore….
Then back to Green Gables….. oh, what a magical ride!!
Once back in his barn, Matthew gets a little more chatty…If asked, he will tell you what he knows about the economics of the Island, the crops that are being grown that year~ this is actually, quite interesting, the whole Island works together on crop rotation. And Matthew is, naturally ~ a very good ~ caring horseman.
If you missed last Sundays Visit to P.E.I. you can view it here:
