Thursday, December 6, 2012

A wet, dull, day

Tuesday was damp.  It was that kind of damp that gets into your bones.  And it was dull. It was that kind of dull where the daylight seemed tired and shadows were invisible.

Nevertheless, Lynne and I went exploring.

View from the top of the dyke.  The tide is out and little water is left
in the drying river bed.

Scarcely an hour after leaving Halifax,  we made our first stop, to wander along the top a dyke that bordered the Avon River.

Dykes, large berms of earth, were built by early settlers to hold back the salt-water, tidal rivers, thereby creating and preserving, arable farmland.

Walking along the top of the dyke, river to our right and farmland to our left.

Back on the road, we stopped briefly under a tree near Canning.  I'd been prattling on at Lynne about the Eagle Watch weekends each winter in nearby Sheffield Mills, where scores of eagles come to feed on chickens parts cast out by local factory farms.

Can you see the eagle ?

Next stop was the Lookoff at Blomidon.  I love taking people there -- especially for the first time.


No matter what the season, the view from Blomidon is always awe inspiring, and Lynne was suitably impressed.

A few kilometers down the road, after stopping briefly to explore an abandoned church, we arrived at Scots Bay -- a large beach on the Bay of Fundy.  The tide was now well on it's way in.

The abandoned church on the road to Scots Bay.

Sadly, we were too cold to linger there long.  We chucked the ball for the dogs a few times and peered down the shore at a couple of eagles perched on a distant piece of driftwood, then high-tailed it outta there.

We stumbled across a lovely little café and Lynne treated me to a lovely lunch.

We got back to the city by 4 o'clock.

Not a bad outing for a wet, dull day.



12 comments:

  1. Hmmmm. I just delete all my spam, sort of like unwanted chin hairs. (The wanted chin hairs I carefully curl.) I find that pretty much all the things that are truly, um, physically inspiring?, are not virtual but In Person. (I will feel a perfect fool, Sybil, if you delete the Anonymous comment and leave this one languishing here, twisting in the wind. Of course, I will feel a perfect fool no matter what, so feel free to do whatever you think best . . . )

    I rather like a few grey days here and there. It is permissible, on grey days, to wander about feeling nostalgic and meditative by turns, and then to go have a bracing lunch, followed by a good supper.

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    1. Oh Gerry, It's almost worth getting spam to have such wonderful comments from you.

      Oh GAWD I don't want to have to start putting commentators through having to complete those damn "captchas" ...

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  2. Hi sybil, you did good for a gray day. I am reading the comment up above and think it might...just might...be spam. lol. Except I love the sentences "A great read. I will certainly be back."

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  3. Geese Kathy, the spammers have found me. I do not take "A great read. I will certainly be back" as high praise from someone who wants me to visit their "teenpornsexpussy" web site ...

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    1. I'm glad YOU had the courage to type that out, Sybil! I was scared stiff I'd be caught in your spam filter if typing that. ;)

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    2. Some of the spam stuff is so ridiculous. "Hi, we love your blog, why not visit our nasty porn site" ... sigh

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  4. I absolutely, positively love your new theme. Way to go.

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    1. Thanks Scott. It's one of their basic templates and I like the colours too ...

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  5. You pressed through the damp and came up with completely undull images.

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    1. Thanks Linda. If we stayed in when it was damp, we'd never go out. ;-)

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  6. I have just put on a Blog and came to visit your page, Sybil. I can't believe we both photographed the same old church! Yet neither of us had seen it before!

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    1. I love that old church. Its sway-back roof sure catches your eye as you're coming down the road.

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