Do you ever visit the Port Royal Habitation?  It was close to our  cottage in Bridgetown and as a child I was taken every summer and ran up and down stairs and hid in bunks and fired imaginary guns over the palisade.  But for the past few decades we have not made time for a… Read More

Alright, I know you're getting weary but just one more day of touring in Halifax with cousin Betty from Mexico City. The Public Gardens were of course on our list and if you know my interests you can imagine that we looked at cast iron:  fountains, benches and gates. Instead of heavy metal here are a couple… Read More

For the last couple of days we have been making little strategic forays onto the peninsula to show cousin Betty some attractions of Halifax.   Of course this means that we have visited some places we never visit (hear that Citadel) and some we keep close to (you're welcome Public Gardens). Monday we started in the Old Burying… Read More

Not much of a theme to this blog except a Saturday in July,  living  local and touring a cousin from away. We started at the old market to pick up  weekly fish from Off the Hook Community Supported Fishery.  We always enjoy a chat with our fisherman, Beau Gillis, from Freeport on Long Island. Beau was cutting… Read More

We were in the Wolfville area for a couple of days taking cousin Betty from Mexico City to sample our wares, including a walk on the Fundy floor, eating our crustaceans, sampling Tidal Bay wines, searching out art installations and visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site at Grand-Pré.  This post is about some things that attract my attention at the Parks… Read More

We have been exposing the cousin from Mexico to the charms of Nova Scotia which has provided me with a number of photo ops. As I reviewed images from the weekend there were a number of ironic building types that when grouped together give me joy.  Let's see what you think. A couple of the… Read More

We have been travelling and noticing so much I am nearly overwhelmed with visual riches.  First there were out of province experiences that involved collecting cousin Betty in Quebec and bringing her to Nova Scotia for the first time. We are now taking her places we like- she lives in Mexico City so it all is a… Read More

Lots of excitement (one way or another) about the Wonderland of construction cranes downtown. Development is a messy business and being a sensitive type I often wish there was a nicer edge between public space and the turmoil of building. So I was very pleased to read that there will be a wonder-wall built to… Read More

Last July I spent a joyful morning walking in downtown Dartmouth (maybe I'll show you more later).  Towards the end of my ramble I visited the World Peace Pavilion in Ferry Terminal Park (hope there wasn't a naming competition for the park). The Pavilion was created to house material collected from around the world by… Read More

My blogging colleagues the peripatetic Gillian and Drew have been joyfully sampling the Parrsboro shore.  Their enthusiasm made me revisit some photos from a very similar expedition Sheila and I took at this same time last year. We were based in Spencer's Island so we could go to the amazing Forager's Dinner at the Wild Caraway in Advocate.  There… Read More