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 [...]
When I was little, we lived in Valley, near Truro. We made frequent trips to town, and on the way home, my sister and I would beg whichever parent was driving to take us over the “Big Big Bridge, please!” We often got our way, because there were several routes home and this particular route [...]
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 [...]
Looking for a New Year’s gift? (That excuse will buy you an extra week.) I’ve put together a calendar of photos from the South Shore of Nova Scotia. You’ll find it in my CaféPress Shop. Price is $19.99 USD. Yes, it’s printed in the US on demand by CaféPress and ships from the US. Your [...]
I just added a few pictures to the Panoramas section of the Nova Scotia Photo Album. You’ll find the new ones at the beginning. The Panoramas are perhaps the most distinctive feature of this website. They are seamlessly knit together from as many as 6 or 7 photos. How do I do it? There are [...]
Around noon, it brightened up, the wind died down and then shifted, and blue sky started to move in. We weren’t expecting a well-defined eye, but when we saw blue sky, we got excited. Was it really the eye? Perhaps it was just the sky just clearing after the brunt of the rain had passed, [...]
We woke early to the sound of the wind, and the news that Hurricane Earl is tracking more easterly than predicted last night, and should pass us directly overhead. Right now it is just south of Yarmouth and has not made landfall yet. Environment Canada calls it a marginal category 1 hurricane, though some other [...]
The Mahone Bay Classic Boat Festival, formerly known as the Mahone Bay Wooden Boat Festival, isn’t happening this year, but a new group has come together to present the Mahone Bay Regatta on the same weekend. So if you’re used to making a trip to one of Nova Scotia’s most scenic towns at that point [...]
We get a lot of wildlife where we live, but this was our first sighting of a fox. It came down the road, crossed our front yard and disappeared into the woods. I was lucky to get a photo at all. My husband saw it later the same morning, going the other way.
If you’ve ever clicked on “Gift Shop” at the top, you’ll know that I’ve set up a CafePress shop with Nova Scotia gifts. I’ve ordered products from the shop myself, and have generally been pleased with the quality. My favourite item is the rectangle fridge magnets. I just had a bunch made up with a [...]
