PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND BARNYARD ANIMALS
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5.24.2010
5.23.2010
5.17.2010
CALLAHAN TUNNEL EXIT IN DOWNTOWN BOSTON
CALLAHAN TUNNEL (THE MASSACHUSETTS 1-A) NEAR HANOVER AND CROSS STREET IN BOSTON
5.16.2010
5.15.2010
WATERWAYS NEAR FREDERICTON, NEW BRUNSWICK
ST. JOHN RIVER, NEAR FREDERICTON NEW BRUNSWICK ALONGSIDE THE TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY
5.13.2010
5.09.2010
5.03.2010
5.02.2010
THE DUKE OF KENT'S MUSIC ROTUNDA
On the Bedford Highway perched on the shores of the Halifax Harbour's Bedford Basin is this privately owned house. In a former day, this was building was a music rotunda. Part of an estate owned by Edward, the Duke of Kent, the music rotunda was actually on Governor John Wentworth's property. The Duke of Kent was the commander-in-chief of the Halifax Garrison. He lived on the estate with his French mistress, Julie St. Laurent.
11.03.2009
GREAT VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The Great Village Elementary School is still in service. The basketball net in front is a symbol of its age: I'm pretty sure the school was built before the game was invented. On a day that took SC and TC to Economy Falls and Five Islands Provincial Park, this school jumped out at us on the way back to Truro. For one thing, the clouds. Oh, the clouds. But it also struck us as a building where, looking back as adults, we would have loved to be educated. Unfortunately the children inside are likely under the impression that the big city schools with all their technology and dual gymnasiums are the place to be, but these are the kids who will have a story to tell about the school where they spent their formative years; a story that'll last them for life.
10.29.2009
HORSES ON GLOOSCAP TRAIL
This tiny little peninsula called Nova Scotia is home to fewer than a million people and just 55,338 square kilometres. Yet many, many tens of thousands of those square kilometres have gone unexplored by SC and even undiscovered by TC, a native to the province. Between Windsor and Truro along the Fundy shore is the Glooscap Trail. Home to the highest tides in the world at Burntcoat Head and some of the most rugged, ever-changing scenery you'll ever see, this section of the Glooscap Trail is worth seeing every year, not once every three decades. Horses seemed to be in abundance, most regularly along the shore side of the road. Although you can't see it in this photograph, these horses are just metres away from a cliff that drops right down to the water (or mud when the tide is out). Happy to stand and pose for a couple minutes, these horses in Selma or Spring Brook may not have realized the stunning backdrop forming behind them. The clouds on this day were spectacular.
10.22.2009
HYPER COLOUR SUNSET ON NORTHWEST ARM
It won't require much of your time to discover the bountiful beautiful sunsets on the Northwest Arm, the waterway which separates Spryfield, Armdale, and Halifax. Beginning at or near Point Pleasant Park, the Northwest Arm is, to a degree, a part of Halifax Harbour. Only, rather than continuing in towards the Bedford Basin, the Northwest Arm stops at the Armdale Rotary Roundabout. Obviously direction helps with any sunset - shooting east just ain't a good method - but the Arm is ideally set up for sunset photography: long stretches of smooth water, stunning homes, slight geography changes along the shore, and plenty of places from which to photograph. Locals would know right off the bat that this picture wasn't taken recently; our skies just don't form these clouds or these colours in October. Late August is the timing answer.
10.08.2009
GREENWICH NATIONAL PARK BEACH
Arriving at Greenwich, Prince Edward Island just after a very filling supper at Rick's in St. Peter's doesn't bode well for swimming in an area often labelled as PEI's most dangerous shore. Thankfully, all had been calm for days and the weather was piping; right out of the oven. A quick inspection of the "real" beach in the Greenwich part of the PEI National Park revealed spectacular dune-scape but not exactly what we were looking for. Plus, we were supremely full. Before leaving, this picture of the beach looking northeast was a must grab.
10.07.2009
GREENWICH TALL GRASS
Next year, you really ought to walk the Greenwich Dunes Trail in August. On a semi-clear day. About an hour before sunset. Stop on the floating boardwalk and turn towards your right. Here's your view. By this time you're only five minutes from coming to the end of the boardwalk and mounting the dune that'll offer quite a 360-degree view of its own, but pause for a moment and take in what feels like kilometre-after-kilometre of tall marsh grass. Wildlife much? Beavers, birds of many feathers, and foxes galore gallivant through this area. If you're as lucky as we were, incredibly warm water awaits on a completely private beach. But first, take a picture of the grass. All this is found in the middle of a national park just minutes from St. Peter's, Prince Edward Island.
10.02.2009
KIDS ON ROOF IN SOURIS, PEI
At the height of the summer of 2009, the best weather arrived for a Prince Edward Island vacation for SC and TC. In SC's hometown of Souris, PEI, the heat of the noonday sun made the only fitting outdoor activity swimming at local beaches like Bothwell, Red Point, and Basinhead. However, after the supper hour, the children of Souris found an entrancing activity looking out over the area where the Îles-de-la-Madeleine ferry docks in Souris. In fact, these little "tourist bureaus" are all over PEI after Pat Binns' budget cuts meant some tourist outreach work was to be done by the communities in picnic huts. But I digress. These boys (and girl) were practicing their gymnastics in a sight that was all too obvious for a beautiful silhouette by SC. And power lines? There's something good about power lines in this photo: a genuine quality that makes the photo definitively Alfresco; something with urbanic rurality.