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.
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.
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.
Sunrise
Posted: July 5, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, beginnings, Earth, Fire, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, travel, Vacation, water, weather | Tags: Canada, Cape Breton, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, Marcus Aurelius, nature, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, reflections, Robin Simmons, spring, sunrise, water 20 Comments
When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 4:30am. One of the most breathtaking, awe inspiring moments I had during our travels to the Maritimes.
Today ends my connection to the internet for a while. No further posts are scheduled so I’ll see you again, live and in person, on Sunday or Monday. Thanks for visiting. Have a fabulous weekend and, if you’re experiencing the same extreme heat we are, stay cool.
Life in the Bogs 