Shoreline Images

Scallop Boat in dry dock

Rusted and worn

Can you explain the fascination?

Scallop nets

They roll along the ocean's floor

Disturbing and probably destroying.

A cool moon

and a warm sun.

This Past Week

Catching up with work commitments.

 On Monday our guests left to explore other parts of Nova Scotia.

Then came a day of machine stitching

followed by a day of knitting.

After knitting all day I decided to record the day

by knitting on toothpicks....not as easy as I thought!

There followed two days of hand stitching 

a leafy and spiraly piece.

I expect you recognize that sewer's tool.

I had to spend a day unstitching all the work done on Monday!

Two Weeks Back

A week of visitors

The biggest moon

brought the highest and lowest tides.

On Tuesday the Artist's Way Collaborative

got together to work out how to hang our show

next November at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Yarmouth.

I am stressed out at all the work I have to do for this show!

On Wednesday Dee and Karen arrived from Washington.

We visited Habitation where the French first landed

And Fort Anne where the Scots and English built their star shaped fort.

Oh, and of course we visited the Historic Gardens.

Sorry I'm late

we were too busy enjoying our guests.

Layers of Colour in the Historic Gardens

Loved the danglies.

The Victorian garden flower beds were a riot of colour.

Layers of green

Layers of texture

How I would love my garden to be a riot of colours like this

Trouble is it would take hundreds of hours away from stitching!

Have a nice day.

On a Misty Moisty Morning

A purple haze covers the marshlands

on one side of the dyke.

And a brown haze of grasses heavy with seeds

on the Basin side.

A Gathering of Geese

 Familiar profiles were spied down the Basin.

Surely it's not that time already.

They were mulling around at water's edge.

The Rusty Pups barked

but surprisingly obeyed my 'stay' command.

Geese are pretty good at protecting themselves

especially with babies around.

When we came too close they retreated in formation.

But mostly they just glided above rippling reflections.

Wonder where they came from

Wonder where they are going.

Busy Scratchings

So much going on

So many deadlines to meet

Summer is flying by practically unnoticed.

Spied this year's first gathering of geese on the basin

They are already thinking of going South.

Where has the summer gone?

Such a nice young woman has contacted us

it seems Steven left a time capsule in our Beaconsfield home in 1980!

Photos and drawings

cap-gun and pencil

Lake Placid pin and golf ball

empty smarties box and cards from the movie Grease

and so much more.

Brett reckons Steven was hiding these treasures from him!

This lovely story is still developing.

I'm sure there will be more.

We thought the merlin had decided not to move in with us this Spring

but they must have nested further back in the woods

because they are now using our garden to educate their young

in the art of swooping on prey.

I've been doing some granny to be knitting.

Today I 'blocked' the tiny pieces.

Let's hope it turns out okay

knitting is not my forte!

Rocks Glorious Rocks at Peggy's Cove

Can you see the lighthouse?

See if now?

Ah, here she comes

And there she is in all her glory.

We didn't have time to sit around

We came for a quick breakfast

and then on to class.

Where the ocean meets hard rock...

...is a powerful sight

The mighty Atlantic throwing itself on immovable rock.

The waves roll in one after another.

I have always been drawn to rocks

Stability

Solid foundation

Permanence

Faithfulness

Adventures in Peggy's Cove

Another week of art classes

Three days in Peggy's Cove with Chris

in Brian Atyeo's class

what could be better!

On Thursday I made for home again

and Friday was a day of cleaning house

and getting used to the slight musky smell

of one RP who got a little bit of skunk spray on her!

On Sunday we always go the Josie and Michael's

to watch the Annapolis Royal fireworks display 

across the water.

A great end to a busy week.