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...

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...

Cut to the Heart – by a Beaver

Taking a break from writing on a dreary afternoon, I photographed rain-wet trees chewed by beavers who have been decimating alders and pincherries near our bridge over Matheson Brook here in northern ...

Images of Autumn

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...