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10 The Clarington Independent, Bowmanville, Saturday, October 29,1994 Work of Local Artist Displayed v .. '.x IH i I y 7 ' e ? Handling It... By Lloyd Scott While Todd Tremeer is in Florence to study and paint, his paintings paintings can be found on exhibit at the Clarington Municipal Building. His mother, Joan Tremeer, is pictured above with two examples of his work. Todd is a student at the Ontario College of Art. I grew up in Toronto and later attended attended and taught in universities in small cities in three states. I've lived in Montreal, Boston and New York City. Until 15 years ago, my personal identification was strongly with city living. My only country-living experience experience was family-cottage summers. So, I resisted vigorously when my present wife, who's from New York city and whom I met in Toronto 20 years ago, began campaigning for us to leave the city and move to the country. To my mind, the country was a pretty place to visit briefly and to view pleasurably, but certainly not a place to live. In the country, you couldn't step out your door, call a cab and go downtown for dinner «id theater. Country living simply didn't make sense. What would one do there? In 1979,1 agreed with my wife to try it. We moved, not to a small town or a village with stores, street lights and neighbors, but to the country of open landscapes, far horizons, big starlit skies and deafening quiet. I was certain that I wouldn't last. Fifteen years later, die siren call of the city's excitement has become remote, muted, almost silent. Instead of police sirens, traffic noises and things that go bump in the night, I hear the springtime peepers singing in local ponds, coyotes barking in the nearby valleys and the cry of a circling circling hawk reading the menu below. I've found that it took a long time to tune the city ear to listen for these sounds. Living in the country, I don't need to travel to the country to where the air is soft and sweet-smelling. Sitting on the verandah watching the hollyhocks hollyhocks grow, slows the heart-rate and washes the brain. Piling.firéwood is a peculiarly gratifying chore, especially especially if I've felled and cut up the trees myself. PRICES START AT The Deere are out in full force this winter From our lightweight, single-stage thrower to our heavy-duty, 8- and 10-hp models, John Deere has the snow removal equipment you need to get winter out of your way. NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE. FARM & GARDEN LTD. SALES & SERVICE The only authorized John Deere dealer In your area. (905) 983-9119 1-800-46I-2120 Taunton Rd., 2 miles west of Hwy. 115, Orono © In the country, you don't simply phone or knock on a neighbor's door for information or to borrow something. something. Tme country people expect you to pause and sample the tomatoes tomatoes from their garden and to have some plain, unguarded conversation about how things are going in your respective families. I've found that experience - not that city people don't do ti too - to be very gratifying in the country. Country living develops a calmer, steadier, less hurried focus of attention. attention. If I'm not travelling too fast internally internally to start with, I find it easier to pause and smell the roses. Workaholism may be an essentially essentially urban blight. Those seriously afflicted afflicted by exclusive, headlong atten tion to work develop blinders that curtail side vision. They miss a lot. Country living and long-time country people are a good antidote to this particular particular addiction. They help to soften that intensity, opening the senses to life being lived all around - in the present. The city now seems to me like a good place to visit occasionally. But I don't think I'd want to live there agam. Lloyd Scott is a marriage and family counsellor in private practice in Oshawa and in the Orono Medical Centre. He welcomes letters from readers. Write him in confidence at this newspaper, The Canadian Statesman, Statesman, P.O. Box 190, Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 3K9. Kamstra Flower & Garden Centre END OF SEASON SALE BEGINS OCT. 26 PRICE SAVINGS ON Shrubs, Evergreens, Lawn Ornaments and Planters Protect your shrubs, roses, trees with our Shredded Cedar Mulch or Cocoa Bean Shells 3 bags $19.95 Planting Soil 5 bags for $ 10.00 Manure 5 bags for $ 10.00 1460 Taunton Rd. E. Phone 579-3395 The Alt Canadian Garden Centre with the Dutch Touch. We Deliver. We are now closed Sundays. © NEWCASTLE VETERINARY ^ CLINIC y nk Saturday, October 29th 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 108 King St. W. Newcastle 987-3816 Everyone is invited to attend. Displays and activities for all ages! . ©