We just got back from a couple of weeks on Exploits Islands in Notre Dame Bay. The weather wasn’t as good as can usually be expected in early August, but it was still a fabulous vacation. Some photos shot during those two weeks….. Looking across to Burnt Cove in the evening: Rope, awaing a ship:…
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What floats your boat?
She’d been high and dry for four years and needed scraping, recaulking and paint. Lots of scraping, recaulking and paint! First stop: the Winterton Boat Building Museum for information on recaulking and general boat construction. A caulking demonstration on a rodney at theWinterton Boat Building Museum. The stuff hanging off is oakum. The Winterton museum…
Bouncing off walls – a trip to Grates Cove, NL
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have this mental list of places within driving range that I’ve always wanted to see but haven’t yet gotten to. Gradually, I hope to work my way through them as the fates (Money, Capricious Child and Time) allow. One such was Grates Cove. Now Grates Cove is…
A rose by any other name….
… would still attract slugs. Luckily mine seem to have gotten off relatively unmolested this year. Not so my poor delphinium. The rose above is a bud from “Peace”, which is fairing extraordinarily well this year and was only planted last summer.
Flower photos
No really good reason for these, other than that I am in awe of the variety and vibrancy of the flora that manages to find a toehold in this beautiful land of ours…. Iris unfurl their cloaks to worship the sun. As you can see, I have a thing about irises….
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 