The Place

I believe the place chooses us
we don't choose it
and once it chooses us it never lets go.
It is with us in the good times and the hard times
and those of us who are chosen are the lucky ones.

Winter in Canada !!

Poem about West Head

This little village, I love it still

The weather is cold because I live on a hill.

When spring arrives, how sweet the air,

I love it more, than everywhere.

In early May, mayflowers bring,

in early June, birds come to sing.

Then July, yes, we have our fog,

birds nesting still on the bakeapple bog.

In August, pink clover in the fields,

beet greens from the garden yields.

September, to me, beats them all,

October cool, you're nearing fall.

November with its frosty nights,

make cranberries red and delicious ripe.

December with its early snow,

fishermen after lobsters go.

The other months are not so good,

we pack our sheds with dry hardwood.

And take it easy and keep the animals feed,

this story's end about West Head.

Short Stories and Poems / From a Fisherman's Heart / Eugene R. Roache

Bought this book in January 2008 in the drugstore in Lockeport. At this time I hadn't been in West Head and  I didn' t guess to own one day land on this Peninsula. Today I read in the book,  Eugene Roache lived at the end of West Head. Not far from me.

Waiting for Sunshine

My Nova Scotia "Collection"

Driftwood, seaglass, rocks, snail shells, ropes, sand dollars, lobster teeth ..... collected on Crescent Beach, Lockeport and Louis Head Beach.

Daily Lobster

The kitchen lobster !

Handmade in Nova Scotia: Crosby Guitars

Looking for a new guitar ?

You'll find handmade guitars in the forest of East Jordan, Shelburne County. Master luthier Russel Crosby offers different models made from domestic and exotic woods.

His website with the videoclip tells about him and his guitars. Russel, growing up in a woodworker family in Nova Scotia, started with the guitars in 1996, meanwhile it's a full-time venture.

Enjoy the videoclip about Russels guitars made by Eastlink Magazine.

Fog & Sun

On a foggy day in Lockeport .......

.... but the sun shines in West Head !

WELCOME

Rooms for Rent

Birdhouses in a Lockeport garden.

Old Postcards

Lockeport Beach - 1910

Lockeport from Mainland - 1920

Fishing Boats Western Head - 1910

Saltfish

White Point in the Right Corner

The white point in the right corner must be Cape Roseway Lighthouse on McNutt's Island, where Anne lives.

Today I registered the first time the lighthouse in the back of the picture. The fir trees belongs to my land in West Head................. I wave my hands to Anne !!!

Seafood

Sunrise Lockeport

Kejimkujik National Park - Seaside Adjunct

Port Medway Lighthouse

Coffee Break

For a coffee break, You can go Tim H. or You can stop at a coffee deck like one in Peggy`s Cove. You'll sit comfortable in a green, blue or yellow Adirondack chair, overlooking Peggy's Cove with the old wharf and the lighthouse.

A nice place on the water is The  Beandock in Shelburne with coloured Adirondacks in a shady garden, overlooking the harbour.

In nearly each travel guide You'll find LaHave Bakery with the red housewall along the Lighthouse Route 331, fifteen minutes from Bridgewater at the bank of the LaHave River. You can choose from a wide variety of breads, rolls, cakes and cookies, made only with traditional ingredients.

My favourite coffeestop is in Maitland Bridge, Highway 8, near the entrance of Kejimkujik National Park.

A place for relaxing after a canoe-tour or hiking in the "Keji". On sunny days You can sit on the deck or in  Adirondacks in the yard. For cold days or early mornings there is a cozy fireplace in the M & W Restaurant. The homemade cakes with a fresh brewed coffee are delicious!

Driftwood - Crocodile

Das Treibholzkrokodil fand ich im Mai 2008 in West Head, als wir die kleinen Buchten erkundeten. Wir schleppten das Monster zum Auto und deponierten das Krokodil bei Bill auf der Wiese vor "unserem Cottage". Im August 2009 überflutete  Hurrikan "BILL" das Gelände um die Oceanmistcottages und unser Krokodil "schwamm" davon..........back to the Atlantic Ocean.

Nanga Parbat - The Movie - نانگا پربت‎

This week, the movie NANGA PARBAT started in the cinemas in Germany. A great movie about the Messner brothers and their ascent to the Nanga Parbat  -  نانگا پربت‎  -  in 1970.
Guenther Messner, 23 years old, died on the way back. Reinhold Messner came home with frozen fingers and toes, he was rescued by people of the Diamir Valley.

Last summer, I met Reinhold Messner  in his home country South Tyrol, Italy.
He is now 65 years old, lives with his family in his castle Juval. In the last years, he founded several museums in South Tyrol: MMM, the Messner Mountain Museums.

Restaurant YAK & YETI, Ortles

Inukshuk in Sigmundskron

The window to the world, Sigmundskron

MMM ORTLES "at the end of the world" , an underground structure, 1900 m above sea-level.
MMM FIRMIAN, man's encounter with the mountains.
MMM DOLOMITES, the museum in the clouds.
MMM JUVAL, the myth of the mountain.
MMM RIPA, mountain peoples.

Sunday Cakes

Sunday Cakes ???

LaHave Bakery & Stayner's Wharf - Pub & Grill in Halifax