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 ...

2013 Christmas Bird Count

Yesterday I joined ten other birders in a Christmas Bird Count in the Tatamagouche area of northern Nova Scotia. After a day of birding on the land and in residents’ yards, we accumulated sighti...

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 ...