a Halls Harbour afternoon

A second installment today of some of the pretty sites we saw this past weekend.
Now it is Sunday's trip to Halls Harbour, a lobster town with a tourist trade and some delightful cottages. We had our picnic by the docks and watched the boats slowly raise with the incoming tide.

Looking Across the Bay of Fundy to Cape D'Or and Advocate Bay beyond.

 

Wally and I sat on the rocks above and watched a little girl intent on throwing

 stone after stone in the water

 

And there it goes!

 

Suddenly a bee landed at Wally's feet, heavy, almost drunk, with pollen,

before flying away

 

And here are a few of the lovely little cottages in the village of Halls Harbour:

Just big enough for two

 

Simplicity: an air in blue, green and lemon yellow

 

a fairy tale entrance through the hedge

 

a charming deck with the cliff that forms the harbour as a backdrop

 

some people know how to have fun!

 

But this is what it's all about

 

with just enough chairs for the 4 of us though we didn't dare

 

and off down the North Mountain on a winding trip back home

 

a romantic trailing rose bush and picket fence shadows of the late afternoon

 

this same house, a poem of olden days at the three corners in Centreville

 

a late September cornfield

 

Rolling clouds over a field of hay bales

 

angles going every which way

 

The sky continued to amaze me all the way home

 

Wally says this is the effect of the ocean which surrounds this lovely Nova Scotia

 

Today I tackle my studio in the pale greige of Painters White that I used on the upper cupboards in the kitchen. It's such a versatile colour and I have half a gallon of it left which is an amazing indication of how far it spreads when you consider I did 2 coats on both the interior and exterior of those cupboards.