parlour walls

What I did when I went home last weekend: I painted the parlour walls with "Lion's Mane", although it was pointed out by a dear friend that it was the same colour as the line down the centre of the road. It's rich. It's opulent. Just wait until I get the floor painted. That will be another picture.

Reversing Falls

I had a breakfast meeting this morning in Saint John at the Reversing Falls Resaurant. I don't know this city so I googled my way there - but there seems to be a Bridge Street and Bridge Road. I circled through parts of Saint John that are not meant for tourist consumption - but at last I did end up at the meeting and then I went out to see the Falls. The high tide comes up the river at the point where the water is flowing through a gorge and over rapids - so when the tide comes in and the river water flows out there is a convergence and the water flows up river. I am alays drawn to watching energy in water.

November Rudibeckia

I took this on November the First - still no frost at mt garden on the Bay. A friend and I were starting on a walk. She insisted that I take this picture. Here it is in November and the garden is filled with flowers and, of course, this giant chard. Where I live in Nova Scotia there are four very distinct seasons. The fall and spring linger for months. I love it!

fish shack

Here's one of the fish shacks down by the wharf. Sometimes you hear country music coming out of an empty shack - the radio keeps the rats out of the bait. Now wouldn't it be something if the computers could digitally reproduce smell? Then I could send you the full effect!

Cape Islanders

These are Cape Islanders tied up at our wharf in Hampton at high tide. At low tide they would be resting on the ocean floor. I took the picture yesterday when we went for a walk. It's lobster season, but it was too rough today to go out. The fisherman next door had gone down to the wharf at 4:30, but they decided to call it off. And it was windy on the road when I drove back today to Sussex - 500 kilometers - but if you look at the horizon you can see Saint Martin's - and I'm really just inland from there. I want wings, and a calm sea.

gone away

This hangs on my wall.

I learnt something this evening. I said that I would be going away for a few days. (I am heading back to Nova Scotia - which means that my computer access will be very limited.) In any case my statement met with laughter. I was puzzled. Then they explained. It seems that saying that someone has "gone away" here means that that person is dead. I am not dead, yet.

visible creek

Yesterday in the sunshine I looked out from my porch and saw the thin sliver of the creek, silver in the sun. I didn't know that it was so close. Before the leaves fell, I couldn't see it at all. But today after hours and hours of rain it is a broad expanse. So if I look over the railroad tracks and through the power lines, there is my water. I always want to be in sight of water.