Thursday Travels: Leaving Prince Edward Island
Posted: November 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Autumn, Earth, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: Anne of Green Gables, autumn, Canada, Greenwich, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Maritimes, moon, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Prince Edward Island, rain, travel, Van Morrison, water, weather 28 CommentsWell, here we are back on Prince Edward Island. It’s just about time to say goodbye. M and I had only one full day there, and we did as much as we could considering the weather.
Before I go on, is anyone else hating this new “Add Media” feature that WordPress has come up with? I’m sure I’ll love it as time goes on and I get used to it, but this change for the sake of change stuff always bothers me at first.
I suspect that means I’m getting old and set in my ways. That’s not good. Therefore, I am now delighting in what is new just for the sake of delighting in what is new.
The first three photos were taken after our hike in Greenwich. The rest were taken early the next morning when M and I went out for a last look at the dunes and beach.
Look at that sea, girls — all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.
~ L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul and spirit fly,
into the mystic…~ Van Morrison
The weather had not improved much overnight, but at least it wasn’t raining when we went to say goodbye to the red cliffs.
On our way back to the B&B to pick up our stuff, we explored a couple of the back roads.
Where I fell in love with these:
Aren’t they gorgeous? I had never seen lupines other than in photos prior to this trip. We saw them just about everywhere throughout the parts of the Canadian Maritimes we visited and in Maine.
That should do it for this edition of Thursday Travels. We’ll hop on the ferry to Nova Scotia next time.
Here in the Bogs, we’re having a lovely, sunny day. It’s still on the chilly side (high in the 40s), but the sun makes it feel warm.
Sunset last night was gorgeous. The moon-set this morning was gorgeous, too.
That’s about it from PEI and the Bogs for today. Thank you for dropping in.
Have a delightful day, evening, night… wherever and whenever you are on the spectrum of time.
P.S. I’m not minding the new “Add Media” change at all now. See? I told you I’d get used to it. 🙂
Beautiful photos, Robin. I love the brilliant colors of the lupines!
Thank you, Gracie. 🙂
PEI looks beautiful though cold and wet.
You got used to the new media feature so fast? Wow. I still don’t like it…
I wanted to post one photo at a time but it posted the whole lot at once, and all right on top of each other with no room for words…
It was cold and wet while we were there, Rosie, but I’ve heard and read that summers there are nice. My husband and I were there in early June. The summer season doesn’t really get started until sometime in July. It’s a short season.
I always upload my photos one at a time otherwise I get confused. That may be why I didn’t have any trouble with the media feature.
Takes too long to upload one at a time…
Good point, Rosie.
Lovely lupines – this time of year? Ours are spring flowers.
Great waves and verse to match.
The lupines are from spring, PhilosopherMouse. Just flashing back in time. Thanks for time traveling with me. 🙂
So many beautiful photos…and I love the lupines! Are you familiar with the children’s book, Miss Rumphius?…she plants lupine seeds along country roads (Maine) and makes the world a more beautiful place. I keep the book on the mantle, right near me…a true inspiration for me for the past 30 years. (http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Rumphius-Barbara-Cooney/dp/0140505393 …it’s a beautiful book!)
And the new media upload?… I can’t resize photos…I can only put them in as standard medium, full or large… no changing them once I’ve gotten them onto the composing page…. there must be a way?…I might just need to accept it though.
I am not familiar with it, Kathy (PP). Thank you! I’ll check it out.
I resize my photos before I upload them to WordPress. I started doing that when I was worried about people taking them. Now I do it to take up less space since I’m going to have to start paying for it soon. I haven’t really played around with the new media feature so I’m not sure what it can and can’t do. Hopefully WP will come out with a tutorial. (It would be really nice if they did that BEFORE they make changes.)
As much as I normally love huge rocks and crashing waves, standing on the stretch of sand near to the sea late on an afternoon in June was a wonderful thought, I believe I would have even taken my shoes off, thanks. 🙂
And then the pretty lupines popping up on the way back just finished the stroll off beautifully with a smile. 😀
Thank you, Sallyann. I’m glad you enjoyed them. Those lupines make me smile too. 🙂
Hi Robin. I am having a time learning the new media feature … it seems there is a lot more fiddling to get the size correct. Nevertheless, your photos are beautiful. I am glad to see so much vegetation on the dunes. I love the orange moon on the purple sky. Jane
Thank you, Jane. 🙂
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I haven’t done much with the new media feature yet. I do all my fiddling before I upload my photos (to save space). It’s easier for me that way.
These are stunning.
Thank you, Sarah! 🙂
Love your vibrant lupines, the back road and the sea pictures. Beautiful, atmospheric photos as always. 🙂
I too am HATING this new Add Media feature on WordPress. Especially if I have to drag and drop to put my pictures up in the order in which I uploaded them! Hopefully, they will fix that. The benefit I can see is that now you can feature individual pictures and then pick which pictures can go in a gallery. It used to be that the gallery automatically featured every picture you uploaded, even if you already featured the photo individually. Hopefully we will get used to it!
Thank you, Cathy. 🙂
I should probably spend some time with the new media feature and see what’s what. I noticed yesterday that all of the photos in this post are featured in a gallery, something I don’t find with previous posts. Honestly, I’m confused by the whole thing.
Yes, it’s very hard to figure it out, but it may turn out that I like it better. Time and experience will tell. I can see some benefits for sure.
Those full moon shots are daggone gorgeous.
Thank you, Terry. 🙂
I wish I’d known you were going to PEI last summer. One of my Internet mom friends, and a fellow blogger, Sock Girl, has lived there her whole life. Oh well, next time.
I didn’t realize Sock Girl lives on PEI, Alto2! I would love to have met her. As you say, next time. 🙂
Thank you for sharing the beautiful photos from your travels, Robin. Viewing your photos is probably the closest I will come to being there, which is okay too. 🙂
You’re welcome, Marianne. I’m glad you’re enjoying them. 🙂
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What a sweet lighthouse in the first picture! I’m definitely going to have to take a trip to the Maritime provinces. I wanted to before, but your Thursday Travels series is providing a weekly dose of motivation to make it happen (for real this time!) 🙂
It’s really beautiful there, Dana. Even in the rain. 🙂