Showing posts with label Nova Scotia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nova Scotia. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

in addition....

Where I come from is fuckin brilliantly beautiful....I forgot how stunning this part of the country is. When I was younger I never appreciated it, but now when I look around I am astounded by the natural beauty of it all. Did you see those pictures in my previous post? Yeh, them's just everday pics, baby. No effort involved. Damn, I'm glad to live here.

p.s.-ok, maybe I am a decent photographer too...

Nova Scotia in the air

Work's been busy so there....

That said, my half-brother came for a visit couple weeks back. We never grew up together and I've only met him a few times. Our father is quite ill so I think that was part of the reason he decided to come now as opposed to later.

It was a good visit. He's a pretty cool dude. He's from B.C. and is definitely a west-coaster. Bit of a hippy, big hockey fan, and travelled a LOT when he was younger. I think he got that from Dad for sure. We're bothe BIG movie and music fans too. It's kinda neat to talk with him and realize that we like the same bands. There isn't anybody else in my family that I can talk to about that sort thing. Here's him in front of the Hockey Heritage museum in Windsor:



We spent a few days with the folks and went over to the Bay of FUndy. Much like myself, he needs the ocean near him.





On the cliff in the background is a cottage that my aunt had when I was younger. I spent many summer days up there and in the area, either at cousins who lived there or at campgrounds.



And another one of John:



And of course this is the Annapolis Valley with my hometown of Bridgetown:

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

post number one

Ok, this is going to be much differen than my last attempt at blogging.

I'm back in N.S. to live for the first time in 14 years, something I never though I would do. So, it's with experienced eyes I return to this little pennisula that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean, that was the 14th British Colony in North America, that holds tales of pirates and privateers, that the shadow of the past clings to with every step. A city that has changed a LOT since I lived here in the early 90s.

This will be an attempt to elucidate my experiences here in some way. Part history, part living in the present, plus whatever else I choose to throw in. A sukiyaki if you will, but made with donairs, pepperoni, and haddock....