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.

   

T Stands for Garden Cleanup

   Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. And hello to everyone who stops by Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog for T day.

   What's  new with me since now I'm home from my travels? First of all I am still in PT for my shoulder/arm and have an MRI scheduled for next week. My shoulder is doing a lot better, but my arm is still sore. The physical therapist thinks I have a bicep muscle injury, and I agree with her. I believe I injured it back last winter when my husband was down and out with his herniated disc and I was doing some "heavy lifting" because it was quite sore then. The thought is it wasn't quite healed when I started all my spring gardening, and I've reinjured it. I also wonder if it has to do with my thyroid, and I'll be getting that tested once I get rescheduled with my Primary care doctor. I was supposed to see her this week, but she's out on  a personal medical leave herself. The office says they believe she'll be back at the end of October and will reschedule me then. So for now,  let's see what the MRI says. 

   When we first got home a week ago we had some wet and windy days. Once that weather improved I decided it was time to go do some garden clean up. Luckily the clean up isn't very heavy duty, and my goal for the past weekend was to get some of it done.  The biggest thing was to pull out most of the veggies and trim back a few perennials.  I had hoped to put in a little stone patio this fall, but I am not going to do anything to make my arm worse. 

   Here's the veggie garden before I did any cleaning up.

    In some ways I hated to pull out some of the veggie plants because they were still producing.  But, with the prediction for some almost freezing temperatures a few nights this upcoming week, they wouldn't have produced for very long anyhow.

   You can see up against the greenhouse I still have kale, carrots and beets growing. Plus, there is some lettuce in one of the raised beds that I planted at the end of August. I've decided to cover that and see if I can get some more growth because lettuce actually prefers it chilly.

   It was a super garden season for me; my best in several years. But autumn is here as so many of the flowers are telling me.

  I still have a few blooms though, including some roses which have had a super second round of blooming.

    Let's see how long it will be until they are done too.

  Anyhow, I need a drink to share for my ticket to T this week, so let me share my new 2 sided mug that I bought while away in Canada. We visited the Nova Scotia Museum of Art in Halifax mainly because I wanted to see the Maud Lewis art. I will share her work in another post (my other 2 Canada posts are here and  here if you missed them and are curious) once I get a chance to go through my photos better. However, I really love her art so I wanted a souvenir of the visit. Here is my mug, both sides, when I had some tea one afternoon last week.

    They had several choices in 2 sides mugs, and I chose this one because we had visited many Nova Scotia harbors and also (even though the color wasn't this bold) it was autumn. I liked the size of this mug too; it's tall, thin and on the smaller size. I have plenty of big mugs, so it's nice to have one that isn't quite so large.

   That's it for me. Wishing everyone a happy T day and  week ahead. 

Some Art Photos from My Travels

  Hi everyone.   I hope you're having a lovely weekend. Today I'm joining Nicole for SITAR (Sunday in the art room) and also Gillena for Sunday Smiles.

  I was thinking about how to present trip photos, and I think this time I'm not going to worry about them being chronological. Sometimes when recounting a  trip, keeping everything in some kind of order matters, and sometimes it doesn't. This trip was one of those times when I don't think chronological order is really needed. 

   And just an aside, if you missed my first trip post and are interested in reading it, you can find here: T Stands for I'm Home Again. This post is an overview of our time away. 

  One place we visited in Nova Scotia was the Museum of Art in Halifax. Now my husband is NOT an art museum kind of guy. But he is a good sport, and even though I told him he could just meet up with me in a bit, he decided to come into the museum. Usually he would always be a bit ahead of me, but at one point, when I came across this GIANT painting, I found him sitting on a bench contemplating it. He also started talking about it. We had a nice conversation about the painting. 

  This painting is called Miss Chief's Wet Dreams and was created by contemporary painter Kent Monkman (b. 1965). This is (to date) the largest painting (7.5 by 3.5 meters) he has created. Monkman is a Cree First Nation citizen, originally from Manitoba.   You might be able to see this piece better in a version I downloaded off the museum's website as it doesn't have the glare of the lights my photo does.  I recommend enlarging it to get a good view as there is a lot to see in this piece. 

    I find this piece very interesting, and I think Monkman not only did a fantastic job painting all these characters, but also telling the story he wanted to tell. It's not the kind of art I'd hang in my house, but it is the kind of art that is worth going to a museum to see.   I looked up about Monkman and this piece online, and I learned that it falls under the category of War Art, and in this case, Canadian War Art. And I think setting this piece on the water was really genius because let's face it, it tells the many layered historical story that started once oceans had been crossed. 

   I'm hardly an expert at interpreting art, and reading about this piece I discovered not only more about the artist, but also themes he paints. Most of his art is history based, and some of his art tells a much more singular story. You can look him up if you'd like to see more of his work. His website is a good place to start: Kent Monkman. 

   The museum had this working sketch also of this giant painting. (Excuse my crooked  view as I was standing slightly off to the side.)

   And here is another painting from Monkman they had in the museum, and again, excuse my tilted view as I was standing slightly off center when I snapped the photo.

   I did read that the man leading the crew in the high heels and read scarf is named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle,  and that image is Monkman's time traveling, two spirited alter ego. When looking online I discovered that this character appears in many of Monkman's pieces.  

    I have other photos from the museum to share. Although it was not a huge art museum, it had a great collection of mostly Canadian art. I really enjoyed visiting it, and I was even introduced to another new artist that I really enjoyed viewing. But all that is to come in future posts.

   Have a super rest of your weekend and start to the new week ahead.