Butter Trail, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia: A Winter Walk

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...

The Owl with George Clooney Eyes: Barred Owl

Chocolate-brown eyes. Throaty voice. Handsome as all get-out. George Clooney, right? Undoubtedly, but the description fits a barred owl, tooooo. Vilis spotted the one in the photo at right while he an...

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...