This book includes the Paintings of Stanley John James, a Welsh/Canadian Artist and Poet born in the mining community of Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales who moved to Canada in 1973. The paintings of John James are often populated with figures that animate the gullies (back alleys) and mountain paths of Wales or a quiet moment along the Bruce Trail in the Niagara Region. His paintings invoke a simpler life and nostalgia for another period.