tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71244599506602509602024-02-07T02:34:28.446-05:00Enchanted Blue PlanetArt JournalEnchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.comBlogger518125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-71626410113576634532017-12-31T11:30:00.000-05:002018-01-01T13:38:08.160-05:00a new year soon upon us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"a blog is an excellent way to help see the beauty, passion and interconnection all around us." </span><a href="https://windsweptadventure.blogspot.ca/"><span style="color: #990000;">https://windsweptadventure.blogspot.ca/</span></a></div>
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And so it is. <br />
Welcome to my 100th post this year, the most I've made in one year since starting this blog in 2010.<br />
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"I ask you to consider the evidence. I'm a cat in need of love."</div>
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Sometimes I wander down a path that quite surprises me, something I never would have dreamed of doing initially, but this format is pretty wide for the wandering mind. For instance, barring multi country automated bots that have played havoc with my statistics, I happen to know that my most popular post of all time, that has drawn real viewers from all over the world, is:<br />
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So you can see how this blog has given me a focus when my own was skewed or off altogether. I have reconnected with my creativity in ways I couldn't imagine until they were made manifest, with the impetus of a viewing audience with whom to share. There were days when I felt quite alone and felt all the better for knowing someone out there cared to see what I was up to, and even comment encouragingly. What surprised me even more is that I made friends.<br />
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As a parting gesture of thanks for this truly remarkable year I am introducing collections of my works over the last 3 years to save you searching through my densely populated posts. You may see them in a new section I'm introducing in the section below the title banner. To return to the main page, simply tap on Home.<br />
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I thank you most humbly for your kindness throughout these years. It has surprised me with the depth of sincerity that I didn't think possible on the internet.<br />
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Christmas Eve. Does it seem a little dusty already?<br />
Such an unusual phenomenon this anticipation, the Day itself, followed by the all-too-soon but inevitable return to reality. We don't seem to have as many crescendos in our lives these days as when we were young, but I remember this feeling of ho-hum all too well. Wally is back at work, the wicked wind has died down and the snow that came on Christmas Day has settled in with temperatures around this morning -12C ( 11F ). My friend in Saskatchewan reported temperatures of -28C. Is that even possible!?!?!<br />
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Around the internet, people are "setting their intentions", making their resolutions, planning for a wonderful new year to come. One youtube series I watch regularly is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtyandme/videos?disable_polymer=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Sixty and Me</span></a> hosted by Margaret Manning. Recently she talked about picking a word to set the tone for the new year:<br />
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On Christmas Eve we did our yearly cruise through various neighbourhoods to view the Christmas Lights. </div>
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It helps that the architecture is so pretty.</div>
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That's one massive wreath they hung in the middle, spotlighting it and the house.</div>
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Many houses ran the usual string of lights along the eaves or the front porch.</div>
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just fling the string of lights up as high as it will go and trail what you've got left. </div>
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Wally told me that the lore is that the original owner who started this display died and the new owners took up his mantle and continued to add on each year. </div>
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Many houses this year had those simple candelabras with their orangey vermillion bulbs in the windows. Many more houses remained dark as if they didn't want any trick-or-treaters coming to the door. I always wonder how folks are managing at this highly emotional time of the year. It's easy to succumb to sad memories or failed dreams or just plain fear which is usually bound up with one's <i>feelings</i> about the future. But that's what this moment, this PRESENT, is for: to draw us up into what really IS. Invariably there is a gem waiting inside of it, the miracle, the <i>light</i>. </div>
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We need to be gentle on ourselves, on our limitations of ourselves and others. We live in a flawed world. And yet every little change affects something else. That is called "the butterfly effect". Staying present to what we can do in our little sphere has enormous consequences. If we owe anybody anything it is to keep our consciousness of our value intact. You are an important player in this game of life. </div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-49677280450859849862017-12-26T00:51:00.001-05:002017-12-26T00:51:06.473-05:00Christmas tidings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, that was fun.<br />
Wally and I enjoyed a quiet Christmas.<br />
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I hope your holiday was just as sweetly spent.</div>
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With a bad back this month and a cold that seemed to come on like a shadow,leaving me quite weary, I let a lot slide this year.<u></u></div>
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Fortunately, Wally picked up the slack and between the two of us, we pulled together a festive holiday for two.</div>
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Wherever you are in the world, in your life, I hope you remember that there is always someone who cares, even if you haven't met them yet. I don't mean a sweetheart per se, but just someone who really gets you and knows your true heart and loves you just the way you are. Along the way, we learn that being that someone is often how we create that reality for ourselves.</div>
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Now take Muji for example, or, as I sometimes call him, "nudje-y" (noodge is Yiddish for pestering)</div>
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loving to a fault, he is SO sweet, that I've often wondered how he would ever make it in the "real world", the one where he'd have to fend for himself.</div>
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Well, in many ways, I identify with his confusion.</div>
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By the way, that isn't Muji's cigar case on the table, nor is it Wally's, but a co-worker of Wally's who is saving them for him ( for me ) for art projects.</div>
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(Geez, I suppose only my generation knows what that means, LOL. It's like translating another language just to talk the way I always have. Part of the slide into redundancy I suppose. Did I ever tell you about the time I made a reference to Katherine Hepburn to a bright looking young woman? She said she didn't know her- as if she was a local woman. Oh please don't tell me you don't either. Well, that's what I mean about redundancy. sigh )</div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-72347435354870704902017-12-23T14:30:00.000-05:002017-12-23T14:30:36.342-05:00Christmas decorations and cats<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With Christmas almost upon us, I thought I 'd share some of our decorations for the holiday.<br />
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This is the beat up lid of an old Blue Bird Toffee Tin from England that I found several years ago that I find so charming with its red thatched roofed cottages and blacksmith scene.</div>
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A cousin of mine gave me first dibs on a blind pick from a bag of gifts she'd brought to one of our family parties. I picked this old embroidered lion that is probably from India I think.</div>
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And yes, we decided to get an artificial tree a few years ago.</div>
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Every year there is always something that captures my imagination. Last year it was this tin house...</div>
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and this one.</div>
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Oh, and I also got a set of paper ornaments from India.</div>
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This old glass ornament was a secondhand store coup.</div>
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And there's another tin ornament, shaped like a tag, that I got last year, inscribed with an old Deco style script that I love so much.</div>
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Quite a while back I found this glass Santa Bear ornament.</div>
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There's Muji at my feet watching every move that I make.</div>
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This is the only ornament I was tempted to get this year.</div>
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It actually does say Reindeer food. Very Cute.</div>
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Another of the old glass ornaments. I was tickled to get the original packaging too.</div>
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Two Cats and a Shoe.</div>
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Babu and Muji awake in the morning. A rare sight.</div>
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I must pass a gauntlet of cats to colour correct these photos.</div>
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Keeping it light.</div>
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Remembering the Peace, Love and Joy that is the Christmas message</div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-85417684571124133962017-12-22T13:52:00.000-05:002017-12-22T13:52:07.199-05:00winter evening drive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There's always a heightened sense of anticipation as Christmas nears. Sometimes it takes an extra effort as one gets older to keep the spirit of Christmas intact. It's been a discouraging year in many ways, but there have been <i>wonderful</i> highlights that have rekindled my faith in human nature and reassured me that good prevails.<br />
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Wally had a day off on Wednesday and unearthed me to go to Greenwood to top up our health food supplements, most importantly magnesium which we all, cats included, take. A trip like that would leave us free to enjoy Wally's coming 4 days off.<br />
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I really mean it when I say "unearthed" as we left quite late in the afternoon.</div>
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I didn't find out til later that evening that the reason I was feeling so sluggish was because I was fighting a low grade cold. Still I enjoyed having some clear weather for this trip - a change, as it always seems to be crummy weather on the Saturdays that we've gone.</div>
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Clear weather aside, the light was already getting low and I lost quite a few shots taken from our moving car. This is a little farmhouse scene with a barn in the back that has a roof so low it appears to touch the ground as the property dips downhill also indicated by the addition on the garage in the foreground.</div>
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This was a sad little blue house that sat for sale since before we moved here over 5 years ago.</div>
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This summer new owners repainted it and put new windows and a driveway in. The wind has clearly played havoc with their Christmas decorations, but it's nice to see the house being cared for again.</div>
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This has been a treacherous week for ice with some awful accidents on the highway. I nearly fell a few times myself. Wally slowed here as he negotiated this icy on-ramp where one is normally obliged to speed up. This is the highway on which he might normally come home on a good day, but he always takes the slow and easy route, knowing what goes on out there.</div>
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The early evening light (it was almost 4:30pm) made even this industrial area not so bad. You can see the range of the north mountain (beyond which is the Bay of Fundy) in the background.</div>
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Heading northwest here, you may be able to see all the black specks in the sky, a small indication of the thousands of crows that do an evening migration around here.</div>
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Dressed in peaches and mauvey violets, the clouds were almost iridescent.</div>
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more crows flying over this snowy cornfield.</div>
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I was lucky, for all the shots I lost, to have a few decent ones of the sun setting over the farmfields.</div>
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the clouds backlit in mauve in a peachy sky</div>
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You may remember this wonderful farm scene with the 3 silos from past trips.</div>
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Though blurry, the colour is so painterly that I had to share it with you.</div>
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So many shots lost in a blur on the highway, I just barely caught this favourite house of mine as we slowly came to the corner in Kingston, Greenwood's sister town.</div>
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The eagle emblem over the door makes it look somewhat American.</div>
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breathing gently into this moment</div>
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remembering that the best present is presence</div>
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Finally finally some sun. It rained last night, but not enough to erase our snow. It did make it treacherous though with spots of black ice. That didn't keep us from getting out.<br />
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I found this charming, Christmasy coloured book at a local secondhand store.</div>
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The spine is even prettier with its gold leafed title and daffodils.</div>
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The dedication is pretty too with its flourished script in pencil</div>
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These coloured glass "friendship balls" by Simon Bisley hang in our kitchen window all year, as has the silver plastic Christmas ball that I liked too well to take down. Besides it has a little light in it that glows at night. The temperature has been reading well below freezing which actually makes the house cozier because the oil furnace comes on to supplement our heat pump; the latter does an adequate job but leaves me a little chilled when it hits the freezing mark outside.</div>
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The kitschy tinsel Christmas bells are hanging from a Santa stocking hook that hangs over the basement door.</div>
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Muji has claimed one of the pink chairs that Wally moved from the window to make room for the Christmas tree. We decorated the tree a week ago Sunday, together for the first time as Wally usually leaves me to do it alone. My bad back may have had something to do with it</div>
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(good for something LOL)</div>
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Precious Muji, truly a prince with all his sensitivities,</div>
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a loving and benign dictator, amidst his daylong nap.</div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-47472256760230969752017-12-18T14:34:00.000-05:002017-12-18T14:39:00.226-05:00random early winter snippets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, what do you know, I found some more November pictures on my camera.<br />
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Towards the end of the month, a blazing sunset.</div>
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If I had my car, I'd get myself to a better location than this view over our street, power lines and a cell tower, not to mention trees and branches blocking its radiance. This is the view out the kitchen window.</div>
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The next day Wally and I gave ourselves a holiday and hit the road.</div>
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I've regretted not recording the amazing carving up of this forest to make a cloverleaf access from the main highway to shopping in New Minas, our big box shopping area "for the Valley", that has lost so many of its businesses since this project was planned ten years ago making a mockery of "the horse designed by committee".</div>
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Our destination (yes again) Ikea for lunch. We can't really afford eating out, both financially and healthwise, but a late lunch at Ikea with most of the cafeteria to ourselves, was a rare treat. Could Wally look any happier with his "Naughty Meal".</div>
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Mine was barely healthier with its sauces and sugar and salt, etc. I opted for poached salmon with "vegetable patties" (mostly potato I think) and an appetizer for dessert: gravlax- more salmon.</div>
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I came home with a bad back that lasted for 2 weeks. I don't remember what would have caused it.</div>
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As usual Babu wanted to play. He has demanded I play with him after breakfast every day for a while now, but boy, it was hard to unbend myself. Still, it was good for me to get out of my chair.</div>
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I'm pretty much healed now with a little bit of stiffness.</div>
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One of our many first snows. I kept getting a chance to re-experience the magic.</div>
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Wally strung me out a heart in Christmas lights on the cabin doors.</div>
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I will try to get a photo with them on.</div>
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And a parting shot, as I have regrets about not having any new artwork of my own to show you.</div>
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I treated myself to this little collection of Patrick Mok's fantasy work several years ago.</div>
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Handmade out of stoneware clay, Patrick is an older man now, living in Toronto. Once a cartoonist, he changed his medium to clay. With an elfin sweetness about him,I wish I had got to know him better. Here is a <a href="http://www.matildaswansongallery.com/patrick-mok.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e06666;">link</span></a> to a gallery that carries his work to get a closer look.</div>
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(Oh yes, that's the first picture ever taken of Wally and me. We were picking raspberries with friends at the house we since sold, in Bracebridge.) </div>
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Now I will tell you a not so secret secret. This is post 94. (You can see that in the sidebar.) Because of all the posts I made this summer, these are the most posts I've made in a year since starting this blog. That is so cool for me who can get so discouraged at times by the lack of response and the crazy amount of "Bot" hits (automated views) that have made a mockery of my statistics. But I have made new friends through this blog, and that pleases me more than I can say.</div>
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The year is quickly winding down, but with 6 more posts, I can reach 100 altogether. With a little more time on my hands, I am aiming for that. So, once again, thank you dear viewers for dropping in and allowing me to share my little part of the universe with you.</div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-13473074082617619142017-12-14T07:30:00.000-05:002017-12-14T12:23:26.341-05:00first snow and a trip to Ikea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Still doing the last bit of November catch-up, including this:<br />
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It's unusual for us to see snow here in November, our 5th in Nova Scotia.</div>
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Usually we're lucky to get it by New Year's.</div>
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Our little Harelson Apple tree is still wrapped in netting to keep the birds off the apples.</div>
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But the apples were all wormy this year, and discouraged, we left the netting up and the apples as groundfall.</div>
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The trees and shrubbery still provide great pleasure, with the empty field beyond.</div>
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This sugary beauty all disappeared within a day however. Ho hum.</div>
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The following weekend was our 2nd since Connie had been gone and we were itching for some fun so we hit the road south to Dartmouth, passing the white cliffs of Gypsum Mines just beyond Windsor.</div>
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This rough terrain with its sheer bluffs are just further down the highway as we climb Mt. Uniak.</div>
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A rainy day, I still felt it was worth keeping some blurry highway shots of the kind of mixed landscape we see in the space of an hour, from farmland to these great boulders and rock cuts.</div>
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I love the lighting on this little forest pond.</div>
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and one, larger still.</div>
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In the grand foyer of our destination, Ikea,</div>
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this crisp bedroom was done up so that one could walk all around it.</div>
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Wally was quite taken with this display, wondering if we should put some more of the trendy brass into our décor. We already have a vintage lamp and some sculptures so that's probably enough for our little house.</div>
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That's the thing: our house is pretty full as it is though I love the eye candy of interior design.</div>
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There always seems to be an accessory here that we find to update the energy of our old house with its secondhand furniture.</div>
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I got that linen tea towel on a previous trip, but I do love the modern country style incorporating the black and white ticking for the duvet cover, and metal furniture.</div>
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Oh, I didn't do Wally justice taking our picture in this bathroom mirror. I probably saw him from a different angle, but it does show the teeny camera I've used all these years for the blog.</div>
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We spent a good little while inspecting this sophisticated "Besta" modular wall unit that we both liked for the living room as we, old fogies that we are, still have a LOT of videos that we'd like to store out of sight but handy. As it is, we keep them in the blanket box coffee table and baskets, scattered throughout the room, inconvenient to say the least. Since we didn't have a tape measure handy I asked Wally to "reach for the top" to help us estimate how this arrangement of modules would fit in our low-ceilinged room.</div>
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Well, I think that finally winds up November.</div>
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Thank you for coming along while I play catch-up to this present moment in time...</div>
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as if that's possible on the internet!</div>
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Still, it's good to have you along to share these experiences.</div>
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Hi again. Still culling photos from our quasi holiday with my friend Connie on her week's visit in early November. I say quasi because it really was a working holiday for Connie who had committed herself to helping us wade through old financial stuff that had paralyzed Wally and me.<br />
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One Sunday evening, we stole her away for a trip up over the North Mountain and down to Hall's Harbour, a trip that only takes us about 20 minutes.<br />
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The light was low, the tide was low, and the road was closed where we stopped on this quiet night.</div>
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A sailor's knot for a boat tied well below the pier.</div>
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We strike out across the pebbled inlet, Wally already walking back before I've begun to make it out.</div>
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Intrepid explorer that I am (ha ha) I wobble my way out along the shallow stream of outflowing tide, </div>
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Ahead of me, to the north across the bay is the other side of Nova Scotia.</div>
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To my right, some little houses lining the shore with their stairs to the beach.</div>
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Despite the brightening of this photo, it has become almost too dark to see, lights coming on automatically in the dusk. Connie and I head back up the shifting pebbles, careful not to fall. It's getting tricky.</div>
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A little boat on a trailer on the other pier that we cannot access tonight.</div>
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A parting shot of Connie on the curve down to the docks where the road was closed.</div>
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I think she enjoyed it though it was reminiscent of her world back in Ontario on Lake Huron.</div>
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Just as we were leaving, a little fishing boat was wending its way home.</div>
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And with that, my pictures of our first week of November are over. Connie left on the 7th, working up to the last minute to help us through a small mountain of paperwork, then gone like Santa Claus, into the dark Canadian sky. Of course we've talked many times since, but the visit, well, she was most welcome.</div>
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Friends. The embodiment of kindness.</div>
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Still, let us remember that the closest friend we have is ourselves, the one who keeps us on track.</div>
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Starting with that initiative we can make a better world for ourselves.</div>
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with peace in our hearts, releasing the troubles of the mind, we-</div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-57886445706427567542017-12-08T15:19:00.001-05:002017-12-08T23:36:34.982-05:00evening in peggy's cove<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"So Soon?" you ask. Well, this Peggy's Cove trip was a rare treat for us so of course I took scads of photographs. If I don't post them soon, they'll fall into the abyss of Never Was. So here we are again.<br />
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My last post watched the sun go down at the famous lighthouse. My friend, Connie, and I walked the short road down alongside the sheltered inlet.<br />
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Coming round the front of this same building, lobster traps in a row, </div>
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the natural breakwater at the front of the cove dark-rimmed to show the water line.</div>
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On the other side of the street are a few commercial spots now closed.</div>
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This one, with its rolled up awning and areas for sitting, seems to be a café of sorts.</div>
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the right side of that same building with the wild rose hips adorning the front view</div>
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looking back from whence we came as the road rises</div>
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a little further along we rise to an uninhabited stretch</div>
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its rocky barrens still beautiful in the evening light</div>
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another otherworldly stretch of rock covered in what may be low laying blueberry bushes</div>
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(After posting this earlier today, I received a message from my dear Saskatchewan friend, formerly a P.E.I girl, who advised me that this is most likely the Northern Bayberry. Deer and salt resistant, growing in poor but well-drained soils- even sand- they provide their own nitrogen/fertilizer. The leaves provide a pleasant scent, often used in candles, though repellent to insects. Thanks Jane!)</div>
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Turning once again from this new vantage to catch the waning light over Peggy's Cove.</div>
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Across the road is the once home, now gallery of William de Garthe, a Finnish born artist who, as a young man in 1930, left his job and art training in Montreal on a quest for "the most beautiful place on earth". Taking the train to Halifax to catch a boat for Brazil where an aunt lived, he was struck by the rugged beauty of the Atlantic coast, reminding him of the island home he grew up in on the Swedish border.</div>
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Painting commercially, then resuming fine art,</div>
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it wasn't until the early 1960's that de Garthe learned to sculpt.</div>
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In the late 1970's de Garthe decided to carve "a lasting monument to Nova Scotia fishermen".</div>
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On a 100 foot granite outcropping behind his home, the 10 year project was about 80% completed when he died in 1983.</div>
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At the far left end, St. Elmo, shelters the fishermen, women and children of the sea.</div>
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By way of interest, St. Elmo was originally Saint Erasmus, who may have become the patron of sailors because he is said to have continued preaching even after a thunderbolt struck the ground beside him. This prompted sailors, who were in danger from sudden storms and lightning, to claim his prayers. The electrical discharges at the mastheads of ships were read as a sign of his protection and came to be called "St. Elmo's Fire."<br />
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Another point of interest: besides being the guardian of all mariners, St. Elmo is the patron saint of children with colic,</div>
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More people of the sea memorialized by William de Garthe.</div>
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This work of art is a lasting memorial to the gallant men of</div>
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Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, whoharvest our oceas. The monument</div>
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We finally leave lovely Peggy's Cove but not without one more stop to capture the sun's fading glow over a group of fishing piers in another inlet on St. Margaret's Bay.</div>
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Another quintessential fishing dock scene</div>
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We were quite buzzed from this mini holiday and touched down at home long enough to feed the cats before heading out to a Mediterranean supper in Wolfville to polish off our Saturday night. </div>
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We haven't had so much fun for a long time. Did I mention we had a 1940's soundtrack on the last evening of our use of a brand new car, leased for our day out, with Sirius radio. </div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-35372821529129751172017-12-07T12:48:00.001-05:002017-12-07T13:04:32.575-05:00november evening in peggy's cove<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Peggy's Cove... a small fishing village located 26 miles to the southeast of Halifax on the east coast of St. Margaret's Bay, named by Samuel de Champlain for his mother Marguerite. The first recorded name of the cove was Eastern Point Harbour or Peggs Harbour in 1766. In 1811 the village was founded by 6 German families who fished but also raised cattle and farmed where the land was fertile. By the turn of that century the community had grown to 300 and supported a school, church, general store and lobster cannery.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">As better roads were made, tourism began to grow, the first public art gallery, tea-room, and gift shop opened in a shack in Peggy's Cove in 1937. The government stepped in to protect what it eventually designated as a heritage site. It is so popular today that there is even a themed resort in Thailand inspired by it.</span></span><br />
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Our trip started late on Saturday afternoon, taking the straightaway down our road to the south shore. Turning northeast, we followed the scenic #3 through villages with evocative names like Hubbards, Boutiliers Point, then turning south on Peggy's Point Road through Tantallon, Hacket's Cove and Indian Harbour as we travelled the east coast of St. Margaret's Bay.<br />
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As we drove the narrow road into town, I was relieved to find there was still enough daylight to capture the maritime romance of this...</div>
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incredibly quaint and charming sheltered inlet.</div>
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Lobster traps stacked neatly on the dock, it is clearly low tide, the breakwater showing beyond.</div>
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We travel the short length of road alongside the quiet cove.</div>
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The setting sun is beginning to show its colours in the radiating clouds.</div>
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Unaware, I also take my self-portrait in the rear view mirror.</div>
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First stop is the Sou'Wester Gift Shop and Restaurant (i.e. the washrooms)</div>
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Perhaps I should tell you that a "sou (south) wester" is the name of the oldtime fisherman's hat that channels water away from the face and down one's back. The worst storms seem to come from the southwest here as they do where we live in the Annapolis Valley, curving down from Canada, through the northeastern U.S. seaboard and up again towards us. I bought one of these hats as a souvenir when I first visited Peggy's Cove, and let me tell you, they work!</div>
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A quick survey of the art upstairs and down</div>
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and a portrait of dear Wally.</div>
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Right out the door, the famous Peggy's Cove Lighthouse</div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">More than 400 million years ago, in the Devonian Period, the plate tectonics movement of the Earth's crust allowed molten material to bubble up from the Earth's interior. The unique landscape of Peggy's Cove and surrounding areas was subsequently carved by the migration of glaciers and the ocean tides. About 20,000 years ago, an ice ridge moved south from Canada's Arctic region covering much of North America. Along with the ebb and flow of the glaciers, the ice ridge eventually melted and shifted and in the process scooped away and scoured large sections of rock, vegetation, and topsoil. As melted land glaciers flowed back to the oceans the changing tidal flows and rising sea levels filled the scarred areas with water, forming coves and inlets. Large boulders composed of 415-million-year-old Devonian granite were lifted by the ice and carried for long distances before being deposited upon the landscape as the ice receded, leaving rugged barrens. The movement of the glacial ice and rocks left scouring marks in the bedrock that are still visible.</span></div>
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If rock ever looked like it could breathe, this is it.</div>
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We follow the concrete path laid out for our safety,</div>
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the sky laid out for our beauty</div>
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To my left, the heaving rock</div>
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The same couple in this otherworldly plain</div>
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Connie and I made it to the top</div>
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taking a pose with the famous lighthouse</div>
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trying to capture the elusive colours from where I stood</div>
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and looking back towards the cove</div>
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aother view over the ancient rocks</div>
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A young family taking it all in, much closer than Wally will allow me to go.</div>
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My normally placid Wally gets quite livid when I venture too close.</div>
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He is afraid of the infamous "Rogue Wave".</div>
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Now that I've done some<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/33hj2p/death_at_peggys_cove/" target="_blank">research on the subject</a></span> I see that there are, in fact, numerous deaths here every year. Wow! There's so much one can learn "unofficially".</div>
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still determined to catch the colour with this little puddle competing with the sun for a focal point</div>
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the huge rocks, so difficult to capture for scale except for the gentle waves beyond them</div>
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Connie waves to me</div>
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It's great to see Wally looking so relaxed and happy.</div>
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My travelling companions by Peggy's Cove Lighthouse</div>
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Really, by height, the lighthouse is not that tall. It is its placement on the rocks that makes its light cast so far. And yet, in that link above, someone had said they had once seen the waves crash onto the road beyond it, by the gift store.</div>
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Each time I turn I catch a slightly different view of the sun setting over St. Margaret's Bay</div>
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the clouds casting long fingers into the darkening sky</div>
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The miraculousness of the evening's "sweet light" is finally lending a hand,</div>
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helping me to capture this glorious sunset</div>
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The waves are benign tonight, this early November evening</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Connie with Darlene and Crystal from the Sou'Wester gift shop,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Darlene holding the postcard that I mailed myself of these 3 buddies, oldtime fishermen.</span></div>
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Here we are in December of all places! So much for my trying to catch up with that first week of November, travels with Connie, within that same month. Our little trips were worth documenting (in my mind) so, with that, here are some vignettes of our<br />
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It's a straight trip down our road to the south shore. I had forgotten what a magical road the Lighthouse Route is as we usually take it home at the end of an outing, too dark to really see anything. After passing some wonderful landmarks I finally thought to pull out my camera, but the light and proximity of things from a moving car wasn't working for me.<br />
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After an hour or so, Wally found the somewhat secret entrance to a little public beach where we got out to stretch our legs.</div>
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The ocean tide gently washed the shore</div>
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The curl of the waves was benign.</div>
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I took off immediately from the car to gather myself from the car ride, unaware that Connie also had agenda: to wet her feet in the Atlantic Ocean. Let me tell you, it wasn't warm.</div>
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through towns with beautiful names, evocative of another time</div>
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and along somewhat lonely patches,</div>
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coming upon little fishing villages</div>
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There were many picturesque opportunities...</div>
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a pretty country home</div>
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a quaint country church</div>
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a rare old home in a grand style</div>
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another country church with a pyramid roofed house like ours in the foreground,</div>
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adorned with pumpkins</div>
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A quintessential old time fishing home</div>
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another fishing village</div>
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and someone who thought this inlet was photo-worthy</div>
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Now we are almost in Peggy's Cove, just past the memorial of the infamous Swissair crash of 1998.</div>
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The rocks themselves, left by ancient glaciers, almost seem like memorials themselves.</div>
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So much ancient history.</div>
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And here we are, our initial sighting of the famous lighthouse</div>
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I will never forget my first visit with Wally, when the waves crashed magnificently on the long spread of rock to the sea.</div>
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The rock really sets the scene here, long undulating stretches of it.</div>
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The vegetation is hardy, the trees are very old, bonsai in stature.</div>
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The red roof of the town church looms closer,</div>
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Hello again and welcome back to those of you who've come along with me on this jaunt through Lunenburg. Connie and I walked just one of the streets- the next one up from the sea- Montague- to get a feel for this amazingly well preserved world heritage fishing town.<br />
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An unusually subdued colour, No 9 has some remarkable mouldings that elevate its simple shape.</div>
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The crazy slope of the streets that go down to the sea are what kept us from venturing further by foot.</div>
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A kind stranger offered to take our picture. This young man from Halifax was touring with his wife and another couple. The wife of the other couple approached Connie and said, "I think I know you." Connie got the surprise of her life when this lovely young woman turned out to be someone she used to babysit back in mid-northern Ontario. I caught the excitement of this crazy stroke of serendipity and we marvelled over it long after. Of course pictures were taken and it wasn't long before Connie got a message from the young woman's mother as part of the celebration.</div>
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Connie poses for me outside the Dockside restaurant and inn.</div>
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more restaurants along this colourful street</div>
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an unusual assortment of windows on this grey clapboard</div>
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Here's a cobalt charmer with its plaque reading " Built for Eli Hopp 1868" </div>
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Upon closer inspection we see it also has a number plaque and a sweet little anchor for a door knocker. Fabulous door mouldings and sidelights make this little house so much grander.</div>
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Connie in purple poses with this house in purple</div>
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A skin care company Fiore Botanica has taken over this fabulous mansard roofed house at the corner of Cornwallis Street with a side patio for the husbands, I suppose, to wait.</div>
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Still on Montague, another charmer, set on the steep angle of Cornwallis Stree.</div>
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An eye-popper with a sandwich board outside that reads :</div>
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Our rented car was brand new, a real treat, and had Sirius radio in it which was tuned to 1940's music that went so well with this fun afternoon. Connie videoed our tour of the higher streets though I think she missed our squeals as we turned to go downhill at one point, sure that the car would roll over.</div>
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with gratitude for the myriad of good things that happen to us in a day</div>
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Well, how-d'ye-do! I'm back already.<br />
I knew I had a lot of pictures to process from our travels with Connie so I though I'd devote some hours to fixing up my pictures from November 3rd:<br />
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our trip through Mahone Bay to Lunenburg</div>
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We started out from a balmy day of summer weather and arrived on the south shore to the cool damp of the Atlantic. Across the bay to the village of Mahone Bay.</div>
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As soon as we got there I found my favourite picnic bench to eat our lunch. It was pleasant if you don't mind the salt spray of the fog rolling in in your face. Connie did, and turned her back to the wind. A dog walker found me changing my sandals over to socks and shoes and commented, " A little cold for a picnic." It was a funny understatement.</div>
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As we strolled along the docks we found real fishermen doing repairs</div>
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the Theresa E. Connor.</div>
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Connie found a whalebone on the dock; there were a few more laying about.</div>
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Quintessential Maritime colours of Adams & Knickle</div>
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Founded in 1897 by Harry W. Adams and Captain Alexander Knickle, the company quickly established its niche in the booming salt-fish trade. The company began as the partnership of Knickle & Co. and changed its name to Adams & Knickle Ltd. in 1907. On April 21, 1943, their fishing schooner, Flora Alberta,collided with the Fanad Head<i> </i>about 140 kilometers from Halifax. ThFlora Alberta sunk within a few minutes of the collision and twenty-one crew members died as a result. The company was incorporated on July 30, 1945 and continues under this name as of 2009. </div>
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During the early 1950s, the salt-fish trade began to dwindle, and a new scallop fishery emerged. In 1954, Adams & Knickle purchased Lunenburg’s first deep-sea scallop dragger, the Barbara Jo, and within the next five years, the company launched eight more wooden scallop vessels. By 1962, the offshore fleet had grown to 44 vessels, and to 77 by 1980. On July 31, 1980, their fishing trawler, Margaret Jane, collided with the Cape Beaver about six kilometers from Lunenburg. The Margaret Jane sunk within two minutes of the collision and four crew members died as a result.</div>
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I thought it was important to remember what a dangerous business the fishing trade can be as much a I enjoy the colourful beauty of this designated World Heritage fishing town. There is a memorial to fishermen on the Lunenburg docks.</div>
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snuggling in on a rainy afternoon here</div>
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And now it's officially the third week of November and I'm still playing catch-up from the first day when we went to pick my friend, Connie, up at the airport. After proceeding directly to Pier 21 in downtown Halifax, at Connie's request, Wally and I left her there to explore her past while we proceeded to Pleasant Point Park.<br />
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This pile of building blocks that houses P & H Milling Group dwarfs the train car below it.</div>
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This extensive walkway to the silos may also be a track. What do I know?</div>
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Four silos deep, this massive structure fascinates me.</div>
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The harbour is full of huge structures that I imagine have something to do with loading and unloading the containers to and from the trucks that bring them and/or carry them away.</div>
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I often forget that these containers that come overseas from all over the world are the very containers we see on trains and trucks. Just around this corner lays the prettiest park...</div>
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This is where we often come to eat our lunch as we did that day.</div>
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A buoy to the right of the island also marks the way.</div>
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Another container ship is leaving and will round that point and go out of sight before we leave this scenic vantage point.</div>
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After checking out some art galleries along the piers where Connie was, we picked her up and carried on to our rendezvous with a seaside restaurant</div>
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. Here we pass the old Alexander Keith's Brewery now turned offices for rent. What a fabulous old fortress of a building.</div>
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Just a little cool, it was a beautiful evening, a Wednesday, to walk along the boardwalk.</div>
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We found this fabulous Maud Lewis background for a portrait, Dartmouth across the bay.</div>
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starfish in the water!</div>
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Now we've come to that small ship(?) (I never know when they go from big boats to small ships)</div>
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This is the one you can see in that previous picture of Connie. Wally is in an excellent mood, finally on a mini holiday with the prospect of eating out.</div>
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Here a man is boarding the Acadia.</div>
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more reflections of a pier just beyond</div>
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These pigeons have found a safe place to roost.</div>
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This seagull sets up a warning cry.</div>
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"Get off my roof!" and he chases this pretty girl away.</div>
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What a lucky shot of these boys on a sculptural bump.</div>
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This handsome pigeon waits for a handout</div>
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We cross the road and find this outrageous construction site. I don't want to think about all the old buildings that had to come down to make way for it.</div>
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Looking through glass, please forgive the reflections.</div>
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About to turn into an old group of buildings turned shops, one last view of the street with restorations going on beyond. It is truly a lovely city.</div>
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Remember that buoy out in the harbour to the right of the lighthouse?</div>
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I'm sorry I didn't get Wally to stand beside this one to show you the scale; they're huge!</div>
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The ocean cold is gripping us here and even temperatures above draw the bitter damp right through you. But that's November.<br />
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On the first of the month we set off to the airport to gather up our honoured guest and old friend, Connie, who came for a week's visit. It was a gorgeous afternoon, not the rainy forecast we'd been expecting. But that's becoming normal, these false alarms.<br />
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It wasn't always easy to get a good exposure in the contrasting sunlight but I thought this fine old house was worth sharing with its 2 chimneys and 3 dormer windows, the middle one larger than those flanking it. Three is the magic number, used again in the covered porch with its 3 groups of 3 windows.</div>
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Falmouth, built on lowland, with the mountains rising in the distance</div>
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FYI: Gypsum is a soft mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, that is 2nd only to coal as a mineral resource in Nova Scotia, whose mines are the largest in Canada. Quarrying began in Nova Scotia in the 1770s, when farmers in Hants County first found gypsum deposits on their land and started exporting to the United States. By 1818 the industry employed over 150 men locally and 50,000 tons were being shipped annually. These early quarries were chiefly around Windsor, Falmouth and Hantsport. Subsequently, even larger mines were opened around the province. In 1953 the huge open-pit quarrying began at East Milford, Halifax County began and is the world's most productive mine of Gypsum to date. Originally used as a fertilizer and paint filler, Gypsum, is the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard chalk and wallboard, the latter commonly known as Gyproc.</div>
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First stop: Pier 21, landing place, gateway to Canada for one million immigrants between 1928 and 1971, of whom Connie was one at the age of 4 years old. </div>
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So much water under the bridge, so much catching up to do.<br />
I will start with the 2nd of our 3 trips to Ikea in October as we attempted to design, shop for and finish our new bathroom upstairs in honour of Connie's visit over this last week.<br />
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We made that 2nd trip on October 18th which proved to be a lovely autumn day.</div>
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Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Freddie, the oldest of 4 brothers, had complications at birth which left him with brain damage. From age 6 to 18, he attended a Truro training school for mentally challenged children and moved back home in 1973. It is around then that he started waving to vehicles from this overpass, living only a minute's walk away. He particularly loved eliciting honks from passersby, particularly the truckers. I can't remember seeing him in the 5 years that we've been here. He'd be 63 now.<br />
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I love this pasture amid the forest.</div>
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down to Falmouth with Mt. Uniak in the distance</div>
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The highway views start to blend for a while</div>
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coming into the Municipality of East Hants</div>
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Climbing Mt. Uniak, the light is getting low and I abandon my picture taking.</div>
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Wally out in the partking lot of the new Ikea at closing time with a stainless garbage bin for the new bathroom among other things. I couldn't capture the surreal enormity of that sign and the fact that we are planted on the edge of a cliff overlooking Dartmouth Crossing a wasteland of big box stores. Maybe another time.</div>
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As promised, I am sharing the new project I started in October, working in a Dylusions black "Journal". I had bought the book a few months earlier and cooked on how to use it over the late summer months.</div>
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As one opens it, there is an envelope on the left for clippings. The journal is a cardstock sewn book attached to the back of the black bookboard cover that enfolds it.</div>
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Knowing that I wanted to use this book for autumn themes but much aware that I was a novice at using both its dark background and the cardstock pages, I decided to experiment with an eye toward semi-finished pieces. I began with a product I had never used before: Ranger's white opaque pen, something like a gel pen. I started on the right page finding the ball of the pen scratchy and difficult to work with. A 2nd pen in the set of two was easier to "roll" with though I had to go slow to keep from skipping. Between the two pens I used an amount of ink amounting to one pen's worth on these two pages; a little pricey I'd say. Regardless, I had fun.</div>
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Well, as I said, I have some catching up to do, but I'm somewhat undone by the pace we went between sight-seeing and doing taxes. So I may take a little break before I return. Wally just called on his lunch break and encouraged me to take a nap. I never nap unless I'm unwell, but, geez, I'm tempted.</div>
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Late October Greetings dear viewers. Two and a half weeks away from my blog is something of a record for me. My dismay over already low view stats ( blog viewing seems to be replaced by Instagram and other less "wordy" social media) has been aggravated by rampant "bot" views (automated views that advertise or can even infect a blog); they have caused some technical glitches over the last 2 years. But that's not why I've been away. Wally and I have gone into overdrive preparing our home for another person, my old friend Connie, who will be coming to stay for a week in November. <br />
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It was Connie with whom I went to Costa Rica, our epic trip, in 2012.</div>
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Now she will be coming to help us with our messy bookkeeping. (She has an extensive history in banking which will help, both technically and with bedside manner.) We want to treat her to a fabulous Nova Scotia holiday in return. She's looking forward, foremost, to exploring her family's landing in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax back in the 1950's. A lobster dinner is also on the books. We've got all kinds of sea experiences lined up for her, from walking the sea bed at Blomidon to exploring the World Heritage town of Lunenburg. But I still think the cherry on top will be Peggy's Cove which will be nothing short of spectacular this time of year. We've never been there in November.</div>
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We were lucky to have good weather as we headed out with some lovely colour still left on the trees.</div>
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The Annapolis Valley is famous for its farming. Unfortunately I missed some prime shots of the apple orchards which once fed the world.</div>
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The country town sprawl of Falmouth</div>
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An exceptionally long factory building from another era that I suspect had something to do with housing animals as it is so near the fairgrounds and the railroad tracks.</div>
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The trees are mixed making for some beautiful palettes.</div>
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The hills begin to roll again, part of the old Appalachian system of mountains.</div>
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It's been hard to find the time to prep pictures for the blog, so this is all I have for today. One last little squeeze out of October. But there's more. That will have to wait til a little later next month. I'll have plenty of catch up to do if I take my camera on those touristy jaunts to come.</div>
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Many artist/illustrators have got on board with the practice called Inktober, honing their skills with ink for the month of October. I haven't got the discipline for such a long term commitment so</div>
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I just did this quick sketch with my Pitt brush pens and Crayola coloured pencils. </div>
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I recently bought some water soluble pastels called Gelatos. </div>
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I do have an October project I am working on. Perhaps I'll share some peeks into it next time.</div>
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Enchanted Blue Planethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197089660201534672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124459950660250960.post-61860013579793437152017-09-28T13:56:00.000-04:002017-09-28T13:56:39.628-04:00last days of september<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is a dark and gloomy day ...<br />
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but Boy! Is it welcome!</div>
It's been quite the drought these many weeks. I don't remember the last time it rained. July?<br />
The irony is not lost on me, considering the devastation that wind and rain have brought to so many this last month while we have waited longingly for a bit of that rain. Nature, for all her beauty, well, I have my reservations.<br />
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One can't help but admire her, keeping a huge amount of respect in reserve.</div>
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Here, one evening, we pass the Agricultural Centre on our way into town. This is where I saw a fox nosing around on the lawn a few weeks ago, oblivious to the cars; a rare sighting.</div>
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Since this is one of the few pictures that turned out on this balmy evening after the heat of day, I thought I'd share it, especially as the moon and the sweet light lend a beauty to almost anything.</div>
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A grand Victorian that stood on the market for quite a while</div>
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is most wonderful when it is decked out for Christmas. The rest of the time it is a little spooky as some Victorian houses are wont to be.</div>
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this one by a discreet professional.</div>
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I've been promising myself to remember to bring my camera when we go out in the evening as we see the most amazing sunsets across the wide expanse of parking lots, this one at the mall.</div>
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The primordial roar of triumph!</div>
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After Wally assembled the first wall unit, we searched for months for the dowels, bolts and brackets for the second one til Wally finally searched the hardware stores for the missing pieces, even travelling to Berwick for them. In the meantime, he stripped wallpaper, patched plaster cracks, sanded, primed and painted the room, researched the best way to preserve our vintage linoleum floor and proceeded to clean it as well. </div>
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Imagine his chagrin when he realized that he had assembled the first unit with a top part on its bottom and now had 2 bottom parts with which to assemble the second unit. Patient, dear Wally replaced one of the "tops" with a bottom on that first unit and proceeded to assemble the second unit with a proper top and bottom. Hence his out-of-character rejoicing! He holds my father's mallet that came in handy for pummelling the dowels into place.</div>
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This narrow room once was our guest room. Then it was where Wally set up oil painting. It began to fill with more and more random supplies til it was a holy mess. I measured the units, each 6 feet long to run the length of the room, but it only exaggerated its narrowness and created a corridor where a planned table is to go. It is actually an "L" where it turns to the left by the half revealed window and opens into a closet that creates the ceiling of the stair landing below. How to keep it open and welcoming, functional and cheerful, that's been the question. I'll show you what we come up with as it progresses. I have a feeling I won't love it so much as I do when it's empty.</div>
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Now we move onto my boys. Babu looking most fetching.</div>
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Babu on another day, licking his chops after breakfast</div>
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oh-oh, two little monkeys squaring off. These little tiffs don't last long and often break up with a licking session or just plain obliviousness. You know, the cat kind where "it never really happened".</div>
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I forget just how small he really is until I see him in context like this.</div>
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I've been pulling out my watercolours lately. This one embellished with white details with the uni-ball Signo and outlined with a fine Pitt pen in black india ink. The busyness of the washi tape border gives me a Persian miniature vibe that I really like.</div>
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Then, as often happens after I use a lot of colour, I turned to the monochromatic palette of a mechanical pencil, but ended up adding some paint pen because I can't help myself. It was interesting going over the bright pink roses in her dress with more graphite to help them recede.</div>
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Finally the wicked heat has lifted and the forecast promises rain though we've only had a trickle so far. Still, it makes for longer seasons here so that early autumn still has the flavour of late summer here in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.</div>
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On Saturday, Wally and I made a trip to Wolfville again, he for kerdi-board, "waterproof building panels allow for quick and easy installation and achieve flat, level, plumb and square tile substrates" for our bathroom reno and me for cut-rate veggies.</div>
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The short cut is actually a little longer but faster as we always seem to save these trips for after lunch and many shops close early around here, very much the world of my childhood - which always reminds me of the saying, "Be careful for what you ask for because you just might get it!"</div>
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The road leads to Port Williams, a small town that has grown substantially as a suburb to Wolfville which bustles with university life. There are new subdivisions built to mimic the old. They are rather well done except for their proximity to each other, the sad lack of mature trees and of course, their newness. This oldie, was once new of course , but it was built on a substantial plot with older trees.</div>
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The mature landscaping really makes a property homey.</div>
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Turning, we cross the Cornwallis River at high tide, meaning the Bay of Fundy hasn't sucked the water out from the river faster than it can flow out to sea, a fascinating phenomenon as it goes on for miles up river. These low laying farm fields are dyked to take advantage of the lovely silty earth.</div>
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I will close here today as I have to make lunch for the working man. Wally is plumbing the bathroom, on his day off, to accommodate a laundry room next to it in the little room at the top of the stairs. A little part of me wonders how wise this is as the future comes barreling down upon us. It means I'll have to get wet clothes down the stairs so that I can hang them outside on the line. I'm jockeying for a laundry chute.</div>
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Hello and welcome back, or just plain welcome to those of you who have never been to this site. It is a gorgeous day here in the Annapolis Valley after a post Hurricane Jose dreary start to this week that culminated in much needed rain on Wednesday. Wally told me that hurricanes start as thunderstorms in Africa and escalate as they move westward out to sea. The results here are generally benign though that can be a different case altogether on Nova Scotia's south shore. So far so good this year.<br />
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It has been super dry this last month. Though there is some colour change, the leaves on the trees are crispy and somewhat brown from dehydration so we're glad for a little rain. Today is the first day of Autumn and we're sure to see some change in the weather. Already the nights are cold, the days temperate, sometimes warm.<br />
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Last week we drove to Berwick to find some bits and pieces at a specialty nut and bolt shop to assemble a no longer made Ikea shelving unit that we'd like to put together alongside its twin that Wally already put together. I'm sure the package of elements will show up one day (we've looked for many months), but in the meantime we'd like to get on with it. So last Thursday, after quite a bit of paper sorting on my part and much painting and plumbing on Wally's part, we rewarded ourselves with an afternoon drive. These are my best shots from a moving car:<br />
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one of many apple orchards that line the drive home</div>
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another apple orchard with old apple wood stacked</div>
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an old country home tucked back from the road</div>
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an old barn turned garage, roadside</div>
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pride of ownership, an old home, landscaped and in good repair</div>
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a humble old country house</div>
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a corner house in Waterville looking quaint and somewhat European</div>
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the old Waterville Community Centre (I think)</div>
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evening country homestead</div>
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raised bungalow with a courtyard installation</div>
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Cambridge Baptist Church with a promise of "ham potato scallop bean supper" on September 30th</div>
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Muji in the vestibule after breakfast. I just missed him rolling around on his back which always means he's in a good mood.</div>
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Babu has taken to exploring under the rolling laundry cart which we use for a recycling divider.</div>
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Here he does the combat crawl. There's a conch shell in the stew can where I'm softening the periostracum outer layer to make it more presentable. I change the water every now and then; it sure smells like seawater. </div>
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Worked and reworked, I struggled with my propensity for muted colours, trying to bring the children (cut-outs from a Tim Holtz pack) into the foreground by colouring them with pigment markers. The muted washi tape colours didn't help, nor did the outer border in Winsor & Newton pigment markers and Gold Sharpie paint pen. Eventually I blacked and smudged an ink background over the original brown coloured pencil background which helped immensely, and added the quotation from who-I-don't-know in white Sharpie pen. It says:</div>
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"Do not let your fire go out spark by spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in the lonely frustration for the life you deserve and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It is real. It is possible. It is yours."</div>
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this mixed media piece is a mix of watercolour, coloured pencil, paint pen, ink, and a washi tape border. The chair is based on my 1930's pink chair in the living room.</div>
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Another mixed media piece starting with an inked circle for the face and coloured in watercolour with a little coloured pencil on her pathway and in her hair and dress. I used some white paint pen for details. The wing of this Flower Fairy is done with triangular points of colour cut from a magazine, the border done in various washi tapes. I felt the border was encroaching too much so I used some white China marker and white paint pen to enhance the separation between the picture and the border.<br />
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Late last night I completed this circle face group of a mother and her children.</div>
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There was no black outline for this watercolour but I felt it needed the distinction once again and added it afterward in fine-lined India ink with a Pitt pen . The little boy's hair and teddy bear are blacked with a Derwent Colorsoft pencil.</div>
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How much quicker time flies when one is being productive. I don't know; is that a good thing?<br />
You won't find me enjoying the run to stay in place. As I corrected these pictures I'm about to show you, my critical eye saw a dirty floor mat and windows that need cleaning, a hedge, bushes and a lawn that need trimming and artwork that could use a few tweaks.<br />
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In the meantime, Muji needs cuddles. Like, really! He needs them.</div>
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Some animals are much needier than others. Just like people. They suffer for not getting their daily requirement.</div>
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Babu loves his cuddles too, but he's very squirmy, the weight of his body pressing down on his little paws, so I put him on his back. Then he reaches up gently to my cheek like a baby, purring and grooving with the attention. Here he's doing his baby mewing, wanting some affection.</div>
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It's rather hot today. Too hot to open the windows. On the way to check the mail, I caught this vignette of an aluminum squirrel nutcracker, some seashells and pebbles plus a beautiful vase carved into stone by Nova Scotia artist John Hannah.</div>
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From the front ramp, the yard is looking that late summer scruffy. It needs a tune up.</div>
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I've been steadily exploring what those cheap Crayola coloured pencils can do. They are showing great promise, certainly equal to that of the much acclaimed new Jane Davenport "Magic Wands".</div>
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Disappointed with the eyes, I whited them out with Sharpie white paint pen and drew them again with extra fine black Pitt pen and a little brown pencil crayon.</div>
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It's funny what you see when you take a picture of your work. This squirrel turned out ok, done from memory, years of drawing them on pottery, but now I see that I forgot to colour in the nose and he could have used some shading where his feet touch the branch. Other tweaks would enhance this picture, but I'm done. I get like that.</div>
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Then I was scribbling, filling the page with Crayola coloured pencil layering, enjoying the mix of colours I might not normally put together. Some washi tape by Tim Holtz made a nice muted border for one of his cardstock cut outs that I got in a pack earlier this summer. </div>
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It has a bit of that "going back to school" vibe.</div>
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It's been so nice having Wally home, even though he's pre-occupied with his plumbing right now. He's ordered the fabulous dramatic tile we decided on after such a long while, but we won't have it for another week and a half. That's ok. There's so much else to do. Now I must make lunch.</div>
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sweet September energy to you dear viewers</div>
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Wally is home for a week and 2 days, attending to the house, painting, plumbing, and gardening on his agenda. I've got paperwork to do when I'm not on domestic duty or drawing in my sketchbook.<br />
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The cooler autumn weather has slowed the growth of things around here and our 10 cent red jewel cabbage that made it into an available pot has certainly grown larger than the seedlings behind it, but won't grow much more I suspect.</div>
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I would have shown you this picture first but I didn't want to shock you so soon with such a good close up of a hornet that sat on the uppermost leaves of the climbing hydrangea that still sits in its pot on the deck, propped near the door to prevent it from constantly falling over in the wind.<br />
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Hornets are notoriously aggressive, but I sensed this fellow was somewhat sleepy</div>
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from a rather cool night before.<br />
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As I stepped off the back deck, the vegetable garden is looking somewhat spent as most everything is ripening. The hydrangeas are looking tired too, bowed from the rain a few days before.</div>
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<u>I</u>nto the yard, I noticed lots of wild asters growing around the perimeter,</div>
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this one by Forget-Me-Not Cabin's old beat up garage doors that I painted in the spring, </div>
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The roses that Wally put into a new garden at one end of the cabin are budding profusely.</div>
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There are fading blooms on the other side of the same plant.</div>
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Lovely heirloom tomatoes are ripening.</div>
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and I'm overdue to pick some more green beans.</div>
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On his way to the garage, Wally catches sight of me.</div>
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"Hi honey."</div>
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I had to underexpose this daisy to pick up the detail in the petals</div>
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Beyond the rose garden is the rhubarb, then some wild asters, and the shipping pallet that Wally leaned in place to discourage the deer. Apparently they figured out a way in as the netting was pulled on our little peach tree, bending it over again, the remaining peaches gone</div>
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. At least we got some this year. Next year, a real fence!</div>
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There were more wild asters growing on the other side of the cabin</div>
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Turning, I look East by Southeast at the hayfield whose weedy clumps of goldenrod, milkweed, etc.</div>
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are growing faster than the grass.</div>
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The wild roses in our border have turned to rose hips.</div>
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I make my way over to the garage garden where, that huge plant with the funky yellow flowers, Ligularia Dentata, is still putting on a show. Wally wanted me to check out where he placed the silver pitcher that I didn't need but didn't want to give away.</div>
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We both got a kick out of seeing it in amongst the Sweet William.</div>
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Such an exquisite creature with its orange eyes.</div>
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Sweet peas are blooming on the other side of the composter.</div>
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Going back up the steps, I look into the composter which looks more like a flower box with its Echinacea, clematis and the wild asters poking up through the deck side</div>
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You may remember that I bought an extra cheap box of Crayola coloured pencils that have turned out to be of mixed quality, but fun nonetheless.</div>
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This piece done in Crayola coloured pencils as well,</div>
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I'm feeling a little impatient to finish this book that I am drawing these images in so that I can justify turning to better quality paper. I've got a history of not completing my sketchbooks. Better quality paper will actually enhance the appearance of these children's quality pencils, not to mention other media. Paper matters more than the materials sometimes, like the quality of a piano one plays on. Still, there is much to learn each time I set out to draw something. The beaver's face was a challenge with its unusual shape, certainly not bunny or squirrel like, but as you can see I gave up finishing this piece, a sign that something better is to come.</div>
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Thanks for visiting today. I hope your September is kind to you. It is something to be grateful for, a little bit of kindness.</div>
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blessings</div>
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This first week of September has been a busy one.<br />
On Sunday, before Labour Day, I suggested we get ourselves off to our favourite cut rate supermarket.<br />
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As usual, Wally took the "short cut", the backroad to Wolfville, a lovely scenic route.</div>
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Coming into Port Williams, there are many beautiful houses, and many shots I lost due to low light and shooting from a moving car, but this delightful scene of an old man on one of 8 seats on the front porch was a keeper.</div>
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As we came to our turn, we come to two storefronts in two very old buildings that probably once had something to do with fishing as we are about to cross the Cornwallis River quite close to the Bay of Fundy.</div>
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This is big time farm country. Here we see the back of a big operation, Noggins Corner Farms, in front of which we'll pass on the slower road home. (I'll show you later.)</div>
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Nearing the corner we pass by this discreet laneway into the farmland.</div>
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The garage has never been open in the 5 years we've been here and it is after hours at the vet's so it makes for a lonely shot.</div>
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Most of the homes are older. This one has a huge rhododendron bush to the right.</div>
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Another yellow house, twice as big.</div>
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This seems to be a humble 1940's interpretation of an Arts & Crafts style house that was most popular between 1910-1925, a favourite style of mine. This go at it has some of the generous proportions for such a little house and is built in the traditional but rare, for here, red brick. </div>
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I can always tell when we're in Wolfville by the grander homes, this one with an extended front porch and extensions out back as well.</div>
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This lovely Victorian on a corner lot is enhanced by lots of flowering shrubbery.</div>
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The Wolfville Nursing home is grandest by far.</div>
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The Wolfville Baptist Church is magnificent even by big city standards. To it's right is the Acadia University Gallery and behind that, classrooms and then the great library which a regular library card will grant us access to.</div>
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Kitty-corner to the church is the library pub. Down that side street is the library that I've shown you before, located in the old train station.</div>
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Past the library pub and a few more shops including the Harvest Art Gallery is Paddy's Pub that ekes into the street for outdoor seating.</div>
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This huge building houses Atlantic Lighting on the main floor</div>
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with incredible modern lighting choices.</div>
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Oh! My little camera is ready for the next building, the Bank of Montreal, or B-Mo as it is known.</div>
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Suddenly, in the middle of all this commercialism is a lovely patch</div>
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devoted to the Wolfville Post Office.</div>
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With its park like setting, its a wonder that there are not more visitors resting there- except that you would have to bring your own blanket.</div>
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Across the street is the Naked Crepe. It's amazing how many variations you can make with a crepe.</div>
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A few doors down from the post office is another eatery, the Pita House, and next to it Wild Lily.</div>
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Located in an old gas station and garage, Wild Lily is a delightful gift and women's clothing shop.</div>
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I got my spectacular whale and octopus glass Christmas ornaments there. And they pipe in the most delightful vintage music.</div>
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This is the corner we would turn to go into the Gaspereau Valley if we wanted to visit the wool shop.</div>
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But we turn instead toward the dykes at this corner of the Bay of Fundy to our destination, Cuts, where sweet potatoes sell for 28 cents a pound and sweet local corn for 15 cents each. I needed carrots which were fresh and bagged at $1.49 for 5 pounds.I always feel like quoting that IKEA commercial where the woman leaves the store wild-eyed, bags in hand, yelling to her husband,</div>
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"Start the car! Start the car!!"</div>
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Loaded up with fresh local produce, we head out of Wolfville past grand mansions.</div>
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Of course I'm getting better tree shots than houses because of the slow readings of my little camera.</div>
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Perhaps you remember this wonderful old saltbox house from past posts.</div>
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Now we are back in Greenwich passing this unusual pale pink roof with its old red roof.</div>
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Just try to find old red roof tiles these days; I couldn't.</div>
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This is prime farm market country but one rarely finds the little guys anymore.</div>
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More often it's these bigger operations like Noggins Corner Farm that seems to expand each year and hosts huge events like a corn maze that attracts thousands each fall.</div>
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I'm always delighted by this discreet country home each time we pass.</div>
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And this simple house comes alive with its magnificent landscape and red door and matching roof.</div>
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Doesn't the blue wheelbarrow set it all off!</div>
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Even this quaint sweetie has its charm.</div>
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Just beyond is Avery's a local chain that sells much local product.</div>
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We are coming into the land of subdivisions that is New Minas.</div>
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This is very typical of the kind of house I grew up in.</div>
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While our local Michaels gets much of Wally's hard-earned cash as it continues to provide us with much of the product you've seen me show in past posts, we're equally delighted with the vast sunsets we see from its parking lot. The treed hill will give you an idea of the abundance of fresh air we're privileged to have as well.</div>
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It is after hours at Canadian Tire that sits next door to the supermarket that we just dropped into to grab some pre Labour Day sales.</div>
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I still find some nostalgic charm to the old A&W design. Wally and I recalled how they used to bring a tray out to hang on your car window though neither of us recall the roller skating waitresses who once did, possibly before our time. Sounds dangerous anyway.</div>
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I really ought to show you some of the artwork I've been doing lately, but I'll have to save that for another day. In the meantime, I hope the weather has been kind to you in your part of the world. We're having some much needed rain.</div>
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