Thursday Travels: Cape Breton sunrise
Posted: January 31, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Cape Breton Highlands, fog, Hiking, John Ruskin, MaidinSun Photography, Margaret Atwood, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, snow, spring, sunrise, sunset, Thursday Travels, travel, trees, water, weather, winter 39 Comments
South Harbor sunset. Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. (7 June 2012)
In the last edition of Thursday Travels, M and I had just arrived at the cabin we rented on South Harbor, not far from the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia. We got there just in time for sunset although we didn’t see the sun itself. Just a band of light on the horizon.
Pause
Posted: January 22, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Earth, endings, Fire, home, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, travel, water, winter | Tags: Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands, clouds, Howard Thurman, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Pause, Photography, reflections, Sebastian Vettel, spring, sunset, travel, trees, water, winter 26 Comments
South Harbor. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 7 June 2012.
Twilight — a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.
~ Howard Thurman
Thursday Travels: It took my breath away
Posted: January 17, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Cabot Trail, Canada, Canada Goose, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, duck, geese, John Cabot, MaidinSun Photography, Mallard, moose, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Rebecca Solnit, sunset, travel, water, weather, winter 24 Comments
The Cabot Trail (7 June 2012)
Last week we left off on the Cabot Trail, probably not far from MacKenzie Mountain, trying to get to the cabin before dark. We needn’t have worried. We were far enough north and close enough to the Summer Solstice that daylight lasted a good long while.
Thursday Travels: The Cabot Trail
Posted: January 10, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, Flashbacks, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather | Tags: Alexander Graham Bell, Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, clouds, fog, MaidinSun Photography, mountains, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, spring, travel, trees, water, weather 23 Comments
The shipwreck (on the right, in the water, in the distance).
I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian Rockies, the American Rockies, the Andes and the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland; but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
During the last Thursday Travels (A Friday edition of Thursday Travels: The Ceilidh Trail), we left off at the shipwreck, just after visiting the Glenora Distillery. It was shortly after this that we began our trek (okay, it was really a ride) on the Cabot Trail.
Busy playing in the snow
Posted: December 29, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, nature, Photography, snow, Spring, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Hiking, Holden Arboretum, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, snow, water, weather, winter 23 Comments
This morning by the pond
We’re getting more snow today. Yay! It is incredibly beautiful. I wish you could be here to see it.
A Friday edition of Thursday Travels: The Ceilidh Trail
Posted: December 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Daily Walk, Earth, exercise, health, hiking, holidaze, home, nature, Photography, snow, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Island, Ceilidh Trail, clouds, cross-country skiing, fog, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, snow, spring, Strait of Canso, Sunrise Trail, travel, trees, water, weather, winter 18 Comments
Fog and mist on the Sunrise Trail. Nova Scotia. June 2012.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Thursday Travels post. I know. It’s Friday, not Thursday. But I’m off skiing this afternoon and won’t have time to post the photos from that little adventure so you’re stuck with a scheduled post and some travel photos from Nova Scotia today. In my last Thursday Travels post (Ferries and boats and lighthouses, oh my), M and I had just landed in Nova Scotia. We left Caribou, Nova Scotia, and went east on the Sunrise Trail, making our way towards Cape Breton.
Thursday Travels: Ferries and boats and lighthouses, oh my
Posted: December 6, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Autumn, Earth, fall, home, music, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, water, weather | Tags: autumn, bowling, Canada, clouds, Ferry, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, Prince Edward Island, spring, travel, Voodoo Loons, water, weather, Wood Islands Prince Edward Island 26 Comments
Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island
Last week when we left off, M and I were getting ready to leave Prince Edward Island. After a quick visit to say goodbye to the beach, we made our way to Wood Islands, PEI to take the ferry to Caribou, Nova Scotia. (Side note: This must seem like it was the longest trip in the world, especially when you consider that this is only the half way point. We really did pack in a lot of activities each day.)
Life in the Bogs 