Never More

There has been lots of talk about the demolition of St Pat's High School. The building has been empty for some time and the main entrance on Quinpool Road lost its sandstone cladding so long ago I'll bet you can't really remember what it looked like. With this post I just wanted to encourage you to pause and look at… Read More

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News is so slow in the summer.  Watching the news on TV at supper time I could feel the pain of reporters as they stretched non- existent stories by interviewing people who confirmed there was no story.  In the blog world,  my posts don't require much news and are often just  based around what  images I happen to find on my little… Read More

Valley Days

Every summer we book some time with our friends Doug and Joanne for Valley Days (sometimes written Valley Daze). D & J live above Canning and from there we venture out to sample the charms of the Annapolis Valley. This blog is a sampling of experiences and discoveries from last weekend. The Farmers' Market in Wolfville… Read More

Garlic

Every year at this time the cry goes out: what do you do with garlic scapes?  The cry is not so loud these days because over the last couple of years we have realized that pesto is a good solution, or we have stopped worrying so much and use the scapes in "flower" arrangements. In… Read More

An Abundant Supply of Strawberries and Cream

In Nova Scotia there is a long tradition of celebrating the arrival of strawberries with festivals and suppers in church halls and at community picnics. We do love our strawberries.  Even though they are now available year round from other parts, many choose to wait for the local crop the way we have always done. [caption id="attachment_3036"… Read More

I feel the earth move. . .

On the afternoon of Canada Day there was a small, 3.6-magnitude earthquake off Brier Island at the end of Digby Neck. In a Chronicle Herald story  a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada said "minor earthquakes aren’t uncommon in the area".  This made me remember that my grandmother had mentioned an earthquake  when she was a… Read More

Mills Remembered

It seems that lately we have been dealing with more disruptive change than usual. I'm dizzy. Today it was Mills closing after nearly a hundred years in business. I suppose what old folks remember as Mills Brothers closed quite a few years ago. This is a chance for me to drag out, again, a couple of… Read More

Fairview, a fair view

Fairview is poised to be a next big thing, I read that somewhere. So one early morning last week I took a short and quick walk along Dutch Village Road to gather some baseline data.  Really all I did was snap a few nugatory photographs . The Church of Scientology's Life Improvement Centre was on one side of the… Read More

Picking at the Linoleum

Last evening we sampled a couple of events. First was the first birthday for The Halifax Examiner. Many of my readers find this blog because Tim Bousquet has been very generous, including links on the Examiner site. If you are not a reader of his daily take on the news, you are missing a treat. And… Read More

Abandoned Buildings

Many folks have a fascination with derelict or abandoned buildings. They have the authenticity of a primary document. And the best examples have a delicious melancholy that is particularly tasty when you are young. In the 60s and 70s I would often stop at abandoned houses in the countryside. I was not a particularly bold adventurer but… Read More