everyone lived in a pretty how town
everyone in niagara on the lake lives in a pretty how town
How pretty?
Prettier than the word imagines. Beyond the prettiness of merely pretty. The very pretty, the prettiest as stated by the committee that picked it to be pretty. Pretty as in claims to be the prettiest town in canada. This claim is also shared by Goderich by Lake Huron and Hammerfest in BC. But we have not seen them nor been assured of the how they make their town pretty. In NOTL contests are said to be held monthly for the best mowed lawn, the most flowerlicious bed, the most shiny of windows, the best of the rest that makes this town the most the prettiest the oh so swissmiss scrumptious of historic towns this side of Galena.
How do you count the ways?
How do you make a town so that everyone will go, oh so pretty? Oh! Oh!
Picket fences as long as a golf course.
A golf course the oldest in North America.
Wrap around porches that go the distance of the picket fences.
Roses clambering up walls and peonies busting their heads open against the picket fences, white.
Roses and peonies and philadelphus scenting the streets.
Dark shutters wherever there are white framed windows.
A historic street buildings unchanged since the late nineteenth century.
Public outrage over the arrival of Tim Hortons.
Condos that never go up.
Niagara River gliding into Lake Ontario, held silver by the tongs of history: Fort Niagara on the American side, and Fort George on the Canadian site.
Greaves jams, a chocolatier and yummy scones.
No drug stores. No chain stores.
Every flower rubbing scents with every other flower.
Wineries tracking north and south around the town.
Well off people content to theatre and bed and breakfast at $200 a night.
Trees trees trees and picket fences minding the lawns that surround the flowerbeds.
Wrought iron chairs and tables waiting for the tea party.
How not?
anyone who lives in this pretty and how town, why would they want to go anywhere but back to their home to mow its lawn again?
How pretty?
Prettier than the word imagines. Beyond the prettiness of merely pretty. The very pretty, the prettiest as stated by the committee that picked it to be pretty. Pretty as in claims to be the prettiest town in canada. This claim is also shared by Goderich by Lake Huron and Hammerfest in BC. But we have not seen them nor been assured of the how they make their town pretty. In NOTL contests are said to be held monthly for the best mowed lawn, the most flowerlicious bed, the most shiny of windows, the best of the rest that makes this town the most the prettiest the oh so swissmiss scrumptious of historic towns this side of Galena.
How do you count the ways?
How do you make a town so that everyone will go, oh so pretty? Oh! Oh!
Picket fences as long as a golf course.
A golf course the oldest in North America.
Wrap around porches that go the distance of the picket fences.
Roses clambering up walls and peonies busting their heads open against the picket fences, white.
Roses and peonies and philadelphus scenting the streets.
Dark shutters wherever there are white framed windows.
A historic street buildings unchanged since the late nineteenth century.
Public outrage over the arrival of Tim Hortons.
Condos that never go up.
Niagara River gliding into Lake Ontario, held silver by the tongs of history: Fort Niagara on the American side, and Fort George on the Canadian site.
Greaves jams, a chocolatier and yummy scones.
No drug stores. No chain stores.
Every flower rubbing scents with every other flower.
Wineries tracking north and south around the town.
Well off people content to theatre and bed and breakfast at $200 a night.
Trees trees trees and picket fences minding the lawns that surround the flowerbeds.
Wrought iron chairs and tables waiting for the tea party.
How not?
anyone who lives in this pretty and how town, why would they want to go anywhere but back to their home to mow its lawn again?
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