A Big Melt: January Thaw

Compare the two photographs below: A week of mild, wet, and frequently windy weather has transformed northern Nova Scotia from a winter wonderland to the next best thing to spring. In what is usually ...

Ice Storm Art and Hardship

During the past two weeks, five storms have brought nearly every imaginable form of precipitation – snow, rain, ice pellets, freezing rain – to northern Nova Scotia, leaving the landscape white an...

Wrinkled Ice for Christmas

Darkness looms black beyond my windows this Christmas Eve morning. Yet, I know that beyond that darkness, when light touches this magical day, are a thousand images of beauty in unexpected places. As ...

Beaver Engineering Inc.

During the summer, a pair of beavers set up home in a lodge they built against the bank of a small pond on our property. I would see them in late afternoon swimming in the pond or hunched amid the ald...