Summer weekend

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Forgive me if there’s not a lot of ‘garden’ content, but this weekend was too nice not to share.
Summer has finally arrived, and yesterday was beach weather. Carter’s beach is a series of stretches of pale yellow sand. Usually we have the place to ourselves , except for the odd seal in winter. We were surprised to see how many people were there – we arrived for a walk at 10:30 am. I bet this is nothing compared to the crowds on the beaches in Europe …

This is the first cove:

Beyond that and over the stream is the next beach.

The tide was out.

After our walk (next time we’ll bring a swim suit and a towel each…) we headed for an exhibition in Liverpool, NS, entitled Art Hits the Wall. A couple of our friends are rug hookers, and organize this event every other year. Stunning work. Here’s one piece, and details of it:

And here’s another that I really liked – 2 hens:

And a few more:

It was an incredible exhibit – about 60 pieces in all, such talent.

Today was the Parade of Sail in Halifax Harbour, part of the Tall Ships Challenge 2009. I couldn’t get up there myself as it’s a work day, but the harbour cams provided some great screen shots:

What a perfect day – enough breeze to show some sail but not enough to make it dangerous in a harbour. They’re doing a tour of Nova Scotia ow, and then they’ll be off to Belfast on the last leg of the Challenge. Perhaps I can sneak on board as the ship’s cat…

’Til next time,
elke

• 20 Jul, 2009
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