Nature's Art- The Rest of my Photos from the First Cabin on PEI (and Sunset Part 2)

    Hi everyone. Happy weekend to you. I hope yours is going well. Yesterday we  said goodbye to my mother-in-law and buried her ashes with her husband (my father-in-law). She passed back in February at age 93,  but getting the whole family together proved an issue as one granddaughter  had a baby in the early summer and then there were people's already planned vacations that  got in the way.  The funeral wasn't a big affair except for immediate family and some very close friends  that came up from DC where they now live. It was very good to see them, especially their daughter who had been living overseas for quite a few years.

    Since funerals always leave me emotionally exhausted, I thought I'd perk myself up by sharing some more photos from my husband's and my recent trip to Prince Edward  Island (PEI). I'll be linking  up to Nicole's SITAR/Sunday in the Art Room and also to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

    Here's a few other views of the sky and the "sights" to wrap up my photos from our little cabin in Bedeque, Prince Edward Island. If you missed the first 2 posts, you can find them here  and here. I don't think today's photos are quite as dramatic as the last 2 posts, but they are still worth sharing.

   For some reason when I look at this first photo I think of the little houses on a Monopoly game board. 😏  And below, close to sunset I went outside and noticed this hawk hunting off a long a hedgerow a few houses down. I knew from its behavior that it was a Northern Harrier, having watched the one that lives at Salisbury State Reserve in Massachusetts several times when I've gone on one of my winter birding adventures.

   The Harrier was a bit far off even with my zoom lens. Sadly my go-to camera lens (a Tamron 18-400x) stopped working over the summer. When I went  to replace it,  everything now seems to be for the new mirror- less cameras instead of the DSL that I have. I  have another straight zoom that goes up to 300x, and that's what I was using, but I was really missing the Tamron's wider range. I also have a mega-lens (as my husband calls it), but I left it home not figuring I would need it for the general types of trip photos. I could have used it for these photos though. 🤷

   Anyhow, this top photo was just with  a bit of cropping, and the other were not cropped.

   I included this next photo because not only can you see the harrier, but you can see the Confederation Bridge plus even a couple trucks driving on it.

   Sunset night two was still beautiful, but not as dramatic as night one. 

    When we first arrived to the cabin, we had been driving for a good chunk of the day. Pete and I went down on the beach and went for a little beach comb. The stairs down looked a little tough for Maddie (not being able to see them) so she and my husband relaxed on up on the lawn .

   Here's the road out to the cabin looking back towards town, taken the first afternoon.

   These next 2 photos were taken of the clothesline at the cabin. I thought it would make interesting photos. BUT, I could never get a shot without getting the power lines in.

 I also couldn't ignore the purple asters that were growing in the hedgerows.   

   I hope you've enjoyed the photos from the little cabin we stayed in our first couple of nights in PEI. As I mentioned in both of my other posts, I never expected this place to have so many photogenic moments. Of course I saw lots of other beautiful views on the island as well as in Nova Scotia, which I will get around to sharing with you in future posts.

  But for now, have a great rest of your weekend and start to the new week.

   

Beautiful World

  Hi everyone. It's another Friday. For some people it's a holiday weekend. In the US it's Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day. (I'm never quite sure what the exact name is especially since here in New Hampshire we have some very resistant state legislators who don't want to update the name.) It's also Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. Wishing everyone in Canada a Happy Thanksgiving, even if I am a few days early.

     Today I am joining Mia over at Art Journal Journey for her Beautiful World challenge.  I'm also linking a up to Nicole's Friday Face Off and Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

    My journal page started with one of the Gelli prints I made a while back. I thought the sun ( I added the bright and sparkly circle) and the moon are two beautiful and reliable parts of our world. I used the edge of a die cut tag to be a doorway, and I put the woman (a TH paper doll image)  in the doorway. I'm not sure if she is looking out, going out, or maybe she is even going in.  Whatever she is doing, she is in the doorway. You can decide what you think she is doing. The trees are die cuts  from printed paper. I used a marker to color in their trunks and I rubbed some orange and brown ink over the leaves to make them seasonal and to enhance the colors. I also added an owl chipboard that I've had for a while. I colored and inked her in also. The quote is from an old Hero Arts set that I have.

  I also debated whether to add the rest of the photos from our little cabin in Prince Edward Island  that I've been sharing this past week or whether to save them for another post. I think I will save them for another post, but let me share a bit more "face" art from the Art Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia that we also visited.

 One thing the museum had was a large collection of First Nations Art, including this exhibit of clay masks. You can read about the masks in this next photo, and here's a few of them that I took photos of. 

                                   

   That's all for me today. Wishing everyone a wonderful rest of your Friday and start to your weekend. 

  

Some Favorite Photos from PEI- Sunset Part 1

    Hi everyone. Happy Thursday to you. Yesterday I shared some sunrise photos from a little cabin we stayed in while on Prince Edward Island. That post is here: Sunrise Photos. Rather than making you wait, I thought today I would show more photos today. I still have even a few more left to share so there is still a third post to come . As I mentioned yesterday, sometimes the most unexpected places end up being the most photographic. 

   Here's the views as we first drove in towards the cabins. At this point I didn't know quite what to expect.

  That morning we had left Halifax in the rain, and as we went northwest, the weather slowly was improving.  Before we even approached the cabins we drove even a little further west and went into the city of Summerside to have a late lunch (since we had been told the cabin was 20 minutes away from much of anything), so by the time we arrived it was just before 4 in the afternoon.

   As you can see, there were still a few clouds around that occasionally gave us some shadow.

   As the sun started to sink lower, the sky colored. And just an FYI, other than to straighten the horizon a bit in a couple of these photos, I have not played around with color on any of these photos.

   You can even see sunset reflecting on the plate glass window that was in the cabin.

   And here's a zoomed in view on  Seacow Lighthouse.

    Off in the other direction you can see the land's edge and even a bit of the Confederation Bridge.

The light starting to fade

and the moon was coming up.

  This was our first night at the little cabin in Bedeque. Although the sunset night 2 wasn't quite so dramatic, it was still beautiful.  I still have some other photos to share with you. Soon there will be another post of photos. Hopefully, you'll enjoy them all. In the meantime, has a super rest of your day.

Some Favorite Photos from PEI-Sunrise

  Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. I  hope you are having a super week.

  Sometimes when you look back on a trip and try to decide what  stood out, the results surprise you. When we first arrived in Prince Edward Island (PEI), we stayed in  this little cabin colony for 2 nights that was out of the way but also not very far from the Confederation Bridge. I booked it because 1) it had good reviews, 2) it was dog friendly, 3) it wasn't crazy expensive and 4) because it was right on the water. Even though it was not really sit on the beach weather, I thought it would be nice to be able to walk the beach.

  What I didn't know when I booked this place was how many photographs I would be able to take right there. It was a great spot for sunrise and sunset views.  Plus I had a couple of exciting  bird sightings too. I took so many photos here that I might will need to do a second post to share them all. 😏

    Here's our little cabin, the smallest of them all, right on the end. It wasn't fancy but it was quite comfortable. On both of the mornings we stayed here, I was up to see the sunrise and to walk the dogs. 

   The back side of the cabin looked out on some potato fields which made a great wide open space to watch the sun come up.

 Plus, since this  area was not crowded with a lot of houses, I could walk the dogs down the road leaving Pete off leash. He's very very good off leash, and we didn't meet a soul. (Maddie needs to be leashed since, as many of you know,  she is blind.)

   Plus we had  an ocean view too.

   And we could even see Seacow Lighthouse, although I did have to zoom to get this photo.

   The cabin had a large plate glass window that looked over the lawn and water.  After one of my morning walks I was sitting on the couch with my breakfast when I noticed  a large white tailed bird fly by the window. I put my breakfast down, grabbed my camera and headed out to see if the Bald Eagle was still around. 

    Luckily he/she was.  He/she actually perched on this tree top for quite some time.

   Here's a few more photos I took  once the eagle flew off.

  These next few photos were taken when we first arrived. This first one is the view out to the ocean from our little deck.

   And here's a couple of views from when we walked down by the water.

  And yes, I will have to write a second post with sunset photos and a few others. I'm sure you will be waiting on the edge of your seat for those. Smile.  But I promise that if you like dramatic sunsets, I have some photos that will make it worth the wait.

  Have a super day.