Category Archives: Photography
Fly Me to the Moon (Weekly Photo Challenge: Boundaries)
When I was a child, I would look up at the night sky and imagine myself to be in the company of Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Michael, escaping to Neverland with arms outstretched, as if flying were the most natural form of transportation … Continue reading
Rainbow Colours of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (WPC-Roy G. Biv)
When I first read the subject of this Weekly Photo Challenge, I knew that my pictures of Lunenburg, NS would provide all but one of the colours of the rainbow required to appear in this assignment. For violet, the “v” in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Folk Art, Lunenburg NS, Rainbow Colours of Lunenburg NS, Roy G. Biv, Weekly Photo Challenge, WPC
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Bohemians of Spring
March 23, 2015 For those of us living in Nova Scotia, these last two months have been unusual in that we’ve had several major snowstorms. As I wrote in an earlier post, “remedies for winter blues” often arrive unannounced and unexpected; I … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Writing, Photography, Poetry
Tagged Bohemian Waxwings, Haiku, Spring, Tanka
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Fisherman’s Monument (Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall)
This one hundred foot, granite rock face in Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, honours both the living and those lost at sea. Sculpted by William Edward deGarthe (1907-1983), it incorporates thirty-two fishermen, their wives and children, enveloped by the wings of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Peggy's Cove NS, Photography, Sculpture, Walls, Weekly Photo Challenge, William Edward deGarthe
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Lunenburg Characters
I was quite taken by the number of life-sized, wood carvings of seafaring characters in the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (Canada)–a UNESCO World Heritage Site–one of five designated as such in this beautiful Canadian coastal province. Although this photo was … Continue reading
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Tagged Folk Art, Lunenburg NS, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wood Carvings
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Butterflies in Flight (Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed)
Late afternoon sun coming from the direction of my patio doors, passed through a glass plate on top of my bookcase and created a shadow-image of a butterfly on the wall behind it. This was an unexpected, but lovely coincidence relating to a recent Weekly … Continue reading
The Yellow House (Weekly Photo Challenge: Yellow)
I had written about this yellow house for a post in January of 2014 entitled Remedies for Winter Blues, and this is the second time I’ve been unable to dismiss an earlier Weekly Photo Challenge from my mind, succumbing, at … Continue reading
Gone, But Not Forgotten (Weekly Photo Challenge)
This photograph was taken a decade or so ago, before it became necessary for Betty–my mom–to move to a senior’s care residence, and before our beloved pet “Bud” passed away from complications of hemophilia within two and a half years of her death. This … Continue reading
Posted in Family Memoirs, Personal Reflections, Photography
Tagged Weekly Photo Challenge
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The Face in the Window (Photo 101: Glass)
I was standing across the street from Flight of Fancy: Fine Art Hand Crafts in Bear River, Nova Scotia one summer afternoon a few years ago, when I had the uncomfortable feeling that my husband and I were being secretly spied upon by a stranger. Intuition, perhaps, made … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous Musings, Personal Reflections, Photography
Tagged Iris Blooms, Nova Scotia
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M.E. Pilkey (Peggy) 