Ducklings!
Spotted on May 27: Ten downy ducklings under the watchful eye of their American Black Duck mother.
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Maypole Dance at South Shore Waldorf School
It’s the only Waldorf school in Nova Scotia, and every year it hosts a Mayfair – a one-day event to celebrate the coming of spring. Naturally, a maypole dance is part of the festivities. This year, the students, grade 1-6, actually learned a maypole dance, creating quite a different spectacle from the usual [...]
Fire on Oak Island
The was a brush fire on Oak Island today with fire departments from half a dozen communities responding. We couldn’t see the fire from the causeway, just the helicopter scooping up and dropping seawater on it. No serious damage, just lots of excitement, and a traffic jam of firetrucks making their way over the [...]
Annapolis Valley Panoramas
I was in the Annapolis Valley last week on a beautiful spring day, and have added some panoramas to the Photo Album.
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Chainsaw carvings
We had an adventure ramble in the woods during a kid’s birthday party in Chester Basin. A neighbour had carved animals out of tree stumps and we had to discover them all. We never did find the bear – maybe it was hibernating.
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Songs and poems about the ocean
My husband has just posted a video list of his favourite music and poetry about the sea on his French sailing blog, “Voile pour tous”. The videos are in both French and English, but his introduction is in French. Here’s my translation:
Sea, winds and boats weave a symphony of poems, music and popular song
Here is [...]
Ruby Throated Hummingbirds have arrived
Dennis writes, from the Valley: “The first one arrived yesterday, buzzed right up to my face and looked in the window as if to say, ‘Where is the feeder?’ Within 10 minutes it was prepped and hanging outside the door. By 6 p.m. one male was giving another a feisty seminar on real [...]
Spring Leaf-out in the Annapolis Valley
I had the pleasure of going to the Annapolis Valley yesterday on business. The leaves are not really much further along there than here on the South Shore, depending where you are. I noticed a familiar Valley odour, too – a combination of green growing things and the smelly stuff that helps them grow. No [...]
Beautiful morning
I wish I could post the perfumed air that caressed my nostrils when I opened the door this morning so that you could smell it too. These guys on the right may have contributed to it, but the main source is probably all the dandelions that suddenly opened up this morning.
This is my favourite [...]
