Watery Wednesday: Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Photos by Kay Davies

It was just one of those days during my solo cross-Canada train and rental-car trip last year. I set out to find the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, which is supposed to be located somewhere near this corner in the town of  Baddeck on  beautiful Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. However, when I saw the water, I just had to stop the car and snap a couple of photos, without thinking of composition or crooked power poles (or maybe telephone poles, near the Bell museum). I was just thinking, "The water is so beautiful. I love it."

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Watery Wednesday
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Lovely evening skies around North America

To my friends and followers in the Blogosphere:
Sorry I haven't been commenting very much lately, and won't be able to comment very much until, perhaps, after Christmas. Working with my little netbook, no matter how cute it is, is not the same thing as my iMac.

Alberta sky as Dick and Lindy went for their evening walk in the summer.



Baddeck, Nova Scotia, at dusk. June, 2010.

Miami, Florida, as the lights come on. 

Florida skies fade as the sun sinks lower.

Arizona sky, near Sedona, as evening shadows fall.

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Photos by Richard Schear and Kay Davies

Mellow Yellows in Halifax and Peggy's Cove

These tiny, sweet-faced violas I saw in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, look like the little flowers called Johnny Jump-Ups here in Alberta.

This theatrical restaurant probably specializes in cod, a Canadian Maritime favourite. But don't ask me what
C B F U means, because I have no idea.

A pretty yellow house on top of the hill in Peggy's Cove.

Flags in front of the Lieutenant Governor's residence in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

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Mellow Yellow Monday. 

Peggy's Cove is one of the most photographed places in Canada.

Photos by Kay Davies.

Beautiful Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Above, I stayed at a beautiful hotel (the upstairs sitting room; picture in my room; my things on the veranda), and, below, a stroll around the Bras d'Or Lake waterfront.

Halifax and Peggy's Cove

Overlooking the harbor in Halifax.
"The Old Burying Ground" (1749-1844) in Halifax.
Church spire, across from the Old Burying Ground in Halifax.
Government House, residence of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Next 6 photos, Peggy's Cove.

Above, pictures like these I took of Peggy's Cove have long been readily recognized ...people all over Canada and in many other parts of the world immediately associate them with the province of Nova Scotia. However, the city of Halifax (top and below) has many beautiful buildings of a different sort. Having lived all my life in western Canada, I found myself constantly delighted by the architecture of older, long-settled parts of this vast country.

Three of Canada's Maritime Provinces

Above and below, just off the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Above, even a low Bay of Fundy tide can be seen rushing upriver in Truro, Nova Scotia. Below, the lovely, peaceful river before the tidal bore caused it to flow upstream.

Above, the College of Piping and Celtic Peforming Arts in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Below, the unfittie is about to enjoy her first PEI lobster.

Below, the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick, sculpted by wind and water. People (not the unfittie) can walk out to the rocks at low tide if they are careful not to get stranded when the famous Bay of Fundy tide comes roaring in.

Below, I tried to set the hotel alarm clock when staying in Moncton, New Brunswick, but didn't do something right, because I overslept by a few minutes and missed seeing the tidal bore at the foot of King Street. There's always something to photograph in the Maritimes, however. Now that I've almost finished "doing" NB, PEI and NS, it's back home soon to nag my husband about going to Newfoundland together, not this year, but maybe next.