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{S.*. u .1 VA a panorama as wouldbe hard to find elsewhere. The hurrying river sparkles on sunny days, and creates a mood of gentle srlendour on moonlit nights. Always there is the harmony of sound made by the current carrying the water over a few big stones, thus causing rippling wavelets. Blue iris and tall srikes ofilgose- strife line its banks. Birds such as gulls, killdeer and red- winged blackbirds dart here and there, while the great blue heron stalks its nrey as it gracefully wades upstream. Much rarer vistors are the osorey, or fish hawk, which dives for a meal with great sneed from a considerable heig1t, and the white American egret similar to the blue heron but smaller. In the migratory seasons wild ducks occasionally srend a night in a quiet srot where the river widens out into a bay. Some neorle recall that to reach the fields beyoni the river there once was a rrivate bridge over the stream. The interior of the renOVated house is furnished in rart with family heirlooms including a melodeon which sounds like an organ. It has been in the family for four generations. The Bruce County Imrrovement contest run by the flowing Match committee in 1976; awarded first place in the Home 1m- rrovement division of Elderslie township to Maurice and Alice Dales for their above mentioned three-acre plot, severed from the farm in 1972. Landscaring since then inludes a circular drive with flowerbed in the centre, a broad exranse of lawn with rlantings of rine and cedar trees as well as fruit and vegetable gardds. First nrizc For the Most ImPFOVBd Farmstead went to Keith and Alice Newden who live near the west end of concession 6. Their lfilntad hnrnx 1nd modern rod trick Hinge 1 i ‘ _ are enhanced by "lowerbnga in :twvo ret'ihfi wells on the Front lawn and a role with Flu' Flut‘vyxnfi in 1MP fre. 3. Th€fifill qnfi ‘ L -\ - v gr. .. C” "E3 m“- wo‘ 'm‘trmmm; Hwy/1m