Pickling and Autumn Yard Care

This morning, while darkness still blackened the world beyond my kitchen windows, I sliced cucumbers, onions, and a red pepper. I placed the veggies in a glass bowl, sprinkled pickling salt over them,...

Canoeing Nova Scotia’s Waugh River

Spurred on by our hiking adventure yesterday and loathe to devote this gloriously warm Thanksgiving Day to the mundane, Vilis and I hoisted a Grumman canoe atop our Ranger, dropped it off on the bank ...

Hiking Gully Lake Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia

Like royalty with the world at our feet, Vilis and I hiked for two hours through Nova Scotian hardwood forest this afternoon. We climbed hills, walked ridges, slopped through a meadow flooded as a res...

Bounty of a Nova Scotia Garden

Hope springs eternal in the gardener’s heart. At the end of June – a month later than I had planned, but delayed by weeks of cold, wet weather – I planted onions and potatoes held in cold st...