It’s finished. Spearheaded by students from Chester Middle School, looking for ways to create more cool activities to keep kids out of trouble and promote an active lifestyle, and several years in the making, the concrete Skate Park is now a very impressive reality. I bet that the successful organizing effort has yielded as many [...]
I’ve just added 5 new Nova Scotia panoramas to the Photo Album, as well as a few pictures in the Mahone Bay, South Shore, Fundy Shore and Blomidon sections. More pictures are on their way. I think I’ll break out a new section on the LaHave River and Islands, and create another just for islands, [...]
The things you notice with sunglasses on. This time it was the surprising red colour of a newborn tamarack cone. Even without sunglasses, they’re a beautiful red. Ever since attending a concert by the Nova Scotian children’s entertainers The Wilderbeats, described in Rural Delivery magazine as “Madcap oracles of nature’s voice for a new generation,” [...]
I consider myself a novice gardener with a strong inclination – even compulsion – to dig and plant. It’s got to be genetic. Both my grandfathers grew things for a living. They were European immigrants to Canada in the 1920s, and, well, that’s what you did in those days. One died too soon from the [...]
Tuesday, June 9, Nova Scotians go to the polls again. I have intentionally avoided discussing politics in this blog. But today I overheard a comment that revealed why so many people do not vote. Referring to political candidates of all parties, this man said, “They’re all the same. They’re in it to get what they [...]
