Bruce Shanks (1908-1980)

[inscription reads] " The effect is that everything and everybody are beautiful to me. I find the most esthetic thought in simply looking at a tree, a glittering breeze playing in its sun-flecked foliage; and in watching the smoky distances. I do not see the meanness or the failure in people’s faces. / Sunset a coppery yellow ochre, a strong but mellow color that filled the whole sky and air, saturating the trees. / J.R.B. reports a scarcity of squirrels north of the city. This may mean an actual scarcity or perhaps the "