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: Glasgow Lakes Look-Off
Posted: February 14, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in Life, Earth, Fire, hiking, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Thursday Travels, Vacation, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, flowers, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, spring, trees, water, weather, wildflowers 16 Comments
Middle Ridge School, 1876. (Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. 8 June 2012.)
After breakfast at the cabin, M and I drove a short distance to reenter Cape Breton Highlands National Park for our first Cape Breton hike. The day, as you may or may not recall from my previous Thursday Travels post, was gorgeous.
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.
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.
Karma’s Photo Hunt: End of the earth
Posted: August 28, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, Earth, goals, hiking, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, nature, Photography, Spirit, Spring, Summer, travel, Vacation, water | Tags: Cabot Trail, Canada, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Highlands, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, clouds, fall foliage, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, NovaScotia, Outdoors, Photography, pond, reflections, Skyline Trail, spring, Summer, travel, trees, water, weather 31 Comments
Pike’s Peak, Colorado. August 2010.
For her August photo hunt, Karma asks us to show her the “end of the earth” or what we think of as the end of the earth. I know some of you have seen the above photo in the past, but I hauled it out again because to me, this truly was the first time I looked at a scene as the end of the earth. It is a place where earth and sky meet, and although I know you can go much higher than this and still remain on earth, it was the highest I’ve ever been and still had my feet firmly placed on terra firma. (Well, maybe not as firmly as I’d like to think since the Rocky Mountain high due to altitude was making me feel lightheaded and floaty.)
You still have time to participate in the photo hunt. The deadline is Friday, August 31. Just follow the link provided at the beginning of my first sentence.
Life in the Bogs 