Storms don’t always coincide with high tides, but today’s nor’easter did. Tide was 2.2m (7.2 ft) late this morning (see this link for tide chart), and near the causeway to Oak Island the road was covered with several inches of water. In 8 years of watching storms here, this was the highest storm surge we’ve [...]
I always thought of Staghorn Sumac as a bush, not a tree – until we moved to our present house, where two gorgeous Staghorn Sumac trees grace our yard. They are particularly beautiful in autumn. The house is about 23 years old, and I presume the sumacs are around the same age. Sumacs generally sucker [...]
My friend grew up in Ontario, but has lived in Nova Scotia for 10 years. “I miss summer!” she said. “Where’s the heat?” I thought about it, then laughed. “I grew up in Nova Scotia,” I said, “and to me, summer is when you don’t have to put a coat on to go outside. When [...]
It’s one of the South Shore’s favourite beaches, and it was a hit with our visitors from Ontario. The water was cold – but no matter. We had great fun body surfing. In August, the sand is deep enough to bury a treasure. But come back in October, and you’ll find just rocks where there [...]
Before the official end of winter yesterday, the snow in the Annapolis Valley and the South Shore had mostly melted. A layer of ice, the remnant of sunny days and cold nights, was the last thing to leave our lawn; it took days to melt. We enjoyed a March Break trip to the Valley, and [...]
Late February: the best part of winter. The sun is shining straight through my office window in the semi-basement. How pleasant. Meanwhile, outside, all is white, hard and frozen. Last weekend, a couple of anglers walked about three hundred meters over the frozen sea in front of our house, carrying two chairs, a pack of [...]
Two snow days in a row! The kids are happy. We have about 35cm/14″ of fluffy stuff on the ground. We’re glad we stayed on top of it yesterday during the storm, plowing the driveway twice, clearing the entrance after the snowplow went by, and keeping the car near the road and shoveled out, ready [...]
The storm predicted by the red sunrise in my last post has passed, leaving the world cleansed and transformed. And so the shoveling begins. We have about 3-4 inches of very dense snow here near Western Shore on the shore of Mahone Bay. A friend near New Germany, inland, reports at least a foot and [...]
Another storm is on its way. This one is the kind of blizzard you’d expect in January, with 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 inches) of snow. Atlantic Canada has been in the news lately with a series of storms in December, one week after another. If you just watched the weather channel you [...]
Many people were without power for a day or two due to trees and branches falling on power lines.
