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WINTER SCENERY
Niagara Falls Village
[Welland Tribune, 28 January 1898]
A correspondent, who visited the Falls and village the other day, writes the TRIBUNE as follows:- “The scenery along the village avneues and grounds the past week has been unusually beautiful. The trees and shrubs have been decked with bridal costume in winter’s white array, lighted up with a bright sun. It is a magnificent scene, gorgeous, with snow-clad purity. It is like some fairy land described by writers of sentimental vision. But this is realistic, and wide-spread at the Falls. It is a scene typical of heavenly purity for whiteness of all outside things of nature.”
Our correspondent adds:- “ One other remarkable object at the Falls, looking at it from the village on the west, is the huge spray cloud constantly arising, dark unto blackness, except at its lofty edges. It is a cloud tipped “with silver brightness.” The brightness of the sun is quite obscured by the density of the spray during the morning hours, but meanwhile, the sun is rising in majesty asserting his power over misty clouds and shadows, and brightening all things alike at his noontide. In the afternoon the scene of splendor is changed; the sun from the west reflects its light directly upon the extending spray cloud. And a gracious rainbow, often a double rainbow, surrounds the great cataract, its ends lightly restng upon the two countries-Canada and New York State. We need say nothing more. All is beautiful; all is typical of greater things to be hereafter revealed. Let every mind learn to ponder over these things. Winter and summer at the Falls present their glorious forms to attract the visitor, and to teach men lessons of wisdom.
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