Thursday Travels: Picnic
Posted: March 14, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Daily Walk, Earth, Fire, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Coyote, Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, pond, Ralph Waldo Emerson, spring, travel, trees, water, weather, winter 14 Comments
A stop along the Cabot Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Nova Scotia. (8 June 2012)
Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.
‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
~ Enid Blyton, Five Go Off in a Caravan
It is not sunset, but it is time to stop for a picnic lunch and relax before our next hike. Although we weren’t able to complete the entire Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail, we still managed to hike for a few hours, rock hopping and wading through the stream that was the trail. (See last week’s Thursday Travels if you’re not sure what I’m going on about.) A little rest and refueling were in order. I agree with George. Food does taste better when I’m eating it outdoors.
Thursday Travels: Leaving the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail
Posted: March 7, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, hiking, home, music, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, videos, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Henry Miller, Hiking, Macy Gray, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Paquette Lake, Photography, quotes, spring, Thursday Travels, Trail, travel, water, weather, wildflowers, winter 14 Comments
(8 June 2012. Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Nova Scotia.)
Now that we’ve had a little rest on that rock just to the right, it’s time to make our way back. We have other trails to hike since this one turned out to be under water.
Snow and geese
Posted: March 3, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, family, grandparenthood, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, travel, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, Canada Goose, geese, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, water, weather, winter 30 Comments
Today’s view of the pond
To what can our life on earth be likened?
To a flock of geese,
alighting on the snow.
Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage.~ Su shi
The snow is flying on this cold Sunday in March, and I’m just settling back in at home after spending the weekend with my granddaughters and their parents. It was lovely, and one of my favorite ways to spend a weekend.
Thursday Travels: More from the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail
Posted: February 28, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Digital Art, Earth, Fears, Fire, hiking, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, travel, Vacation, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Canada, Canadian Maritimes, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Debbie Ford, e e cummings, fear, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, Marion Woodman, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, snow, spring, winter 13 Comments
(8 June 2012. Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia.)
During the last Thursday Travels post, M and I were still making our way along the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. The trail was getting wetter and wetter as we made our way up and along the highlands plateau.
Thursday Travels: Morning at the cabin
Posted: February 7, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Critters, Earth, Fire, food, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Cape Breton Highlands, Cape Breton Island, food, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, spring, travel, water, weather, winter 27 Comments
Hanging around
Last week I showed you our first sunrise at the cabin we rented on South Harbor, just off the Cabot Trail in the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia. This little red squirrel hung out with us whenever we were at the cabin. It might have been our company, but I think the seed in the bird feeder was the bigger attraction.
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
Life in the Bogs 