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: 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: 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: 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
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.
Life in the Bogs 