We found 8 Little Libraries from Grimsby to Hamilton.
Went to 2 coffee shops.
We survived Hamilton's one-way streets and we clocked 18000 steps, 12km on the fitbits.
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| A Victorian bird house to go with the sunflower house |
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This is the man, Ed, whose restored Painted Lady vision
has spread to the other houses in the area.
[Not my photo]
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| Our first Little Library visit. A perfect little Victorian library. |
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| We each took a local magazine and left our hygge booklet |
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| Tin roof. Scalloped details. A pitcher, teacup, pot lid, glass and ceramic steeple for the library. |
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| Coffee at Station 1 Coffeehouse in downtown Grimsby. It's use to be a firehall. We had lattes and a delicious coconut vegan macaroon each. [Not my photo. I forgot to take one.] |
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| From the coffeehouse we walked over to Murray Street to this pretty yellow house with matching little library. There's a pretty fish pond behind the fence. |
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| A big little library on Morrison in Grimsby |
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| I had seen these elephants on the web but had no idea where in southwestern Ontario they were, then lo and behold we drove down Watercress Drive in Stoney Creek and there they were. Serendipity. A family of elephants on a residential lawn. This is the second set of full size lawn elephants (well almost full size) we've seen on our Little Library hunting expeditions. |
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| Palacebeach Trail and Watershore Dr, Stoney Creek We didn't see a camera. The sign was likely used to prevent vandalism. |
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| Palacebeach Trail & Watershore Dr, Stoney Creek. Beautifully painted. |
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| This is an octagonal side table turned into a Little Library. On Brentwood Drive in Hamilton. |
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| Nice stuff inside. Besides the great books, there were handmade bookmarks. The owners had a guest book. I love guest books in little libraries. Signed it. :) |
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| We took one as a momento and left our booklet. |
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| We drove on to the Gage Park Delta West area, where we did most of our walking and visited 4 little libraries. This one was temporarily closed, despite books inside. We didn't open it or leave a booklet. |
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| Wexford S in Hamilton Our first newspaper box little library find. Nice friendly family lives here. |
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| Some cool cruise ships on this veranda. |
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| There's supposed to be a Little Library at 81 Graham Ave. S, but there is no 81 Graham. There's 79 on the left and 83 on the right. Where's house #81? Why is 81 missing? We continued down the street and saw.... |
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| 85 Graham Ave South There was a box on the porch step and it turned out to be a little library. But it turned out not to be the one that was supposed to be at #81. We lucked out to find a little library on this street, but still....what happened to both a house and a LFL that are supposed to be between house #79 and #83???? |
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| A cute schoolhouse little library on Grosvenor South. The double doors have tiny little door latches. |
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| Before heading home we decided to stop for coffee. We battled the streets of Hamilton and almost gave up. But we managed to make it to the Locke Street area and someone was leaving a parking space so we took it and headed over to Finch Coffee. Nice little coffeehouse. We sat out on the back patio and drank lavendar lattes (and I munched on chives growing in the herb garden that was right next to where we sat). P.S. Someone needs to make "I survived Hamilton's one-way streets" t-shirts. |
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| Finch Coffee on Locke Street |
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| We spotted this Little Library on Poulette Street while driving over to Locke Street, it ended up being close to where we parked, so after coffee it was our last Little Free Library visit before heading home. |
