Nova Scotia was ablaze with autumn’s glorious hues this past Thanksgiving Weekend. To earn – and the next day, to wear off! – our Thanksgiving roast chicken dinner, Vilis and I hiked in the ...
Blue sky. White puffy clouds. Ice-covered bay. All these enticed me to walk a few kilometres of the Butter Trail on a late winter afternoon six days before the spring equinox. The Butter Trail is a se...
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...
As Sam Gamgee said on returning to Bag End, “I’m back!” Sorry for the lapse in posts. Summer flew by in a blur of gardening and writing and playing piano. But now, before autumn rele...