Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010

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


Donnerstag, 21. Januar 2010

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!

Dienstag, 19. Januar 2010

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.

Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010

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.

Samstag, 16. Januar 2010

Sunday Cakes



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


Image Effect TWIRL



Peggy's Cove Lighthouse and a Lobster Boat .........
done with IrfanView effects.



Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010

Rubber Gloves


A Tale of Two Rivers - The Book

Sable River Stories and Tom Tigney Tales -
published by Friends of Sable River.

If you cross the Queens – Shelburne border at Granite Village and drive a little over seven kilometres inside Shelburne County, you come to the community of Sable River.

The book is attractive, with a colourful cover showing an aerial photograph of the Sable River, with its swinging bridge, taken by Linda Ross. It contains a gold mine of information and stories about early Nova Scotia, ranging from the first settlers to accounts of the various businesses that operated over the years.
The book will be available from the Whirlygig Bookshop in Shelburne.

My Sable River Home - The Song


My Sable River Home  - a romantic song about Sable River.
Original music and performance by Cathy Cook, based on a poem by Leslie Freeman.
The video shows pictures from today and the past.

Sonntag, 10. Januar 2010

Sable River Trail - Swinging Bridge

For the 3.5 km walk, You can start at the Chef's Table restaurant on Highway 103 or from the parkground near the Fire Department in Sable River West (Highway 3 - Lockeport Loop). This is a good trail for birdwatching, fitness walking, painting, photography, etc...


Samstag, 9. Januar 2010

Halifax Farmers' Market - old & new

Mein allererster Tag in Nova Scotia war ein Samstag. Samstag ist Markttag in Halifax. Der Farmer-Markt ist im alten Brauereigebäude der Keith Brauerei. Bauern, Gärtner, Bäcker, Handwerker und Künstler bieten von 7 bis 13 Uhr ihre Waren an. An einem Stand mit Cookies und Früchtekuchen konnten wir nicht widerstehen, kauften gleich einen Vorrat für die nächsten Tage ein. Seit 1750 gibt es diesen Markt in Halifax, er ist der älteste, ohne Unterbrechung, laufende Markt in Nordamerika. Dokumente belegen, dass Familie  Mannette seit 1784 den Markt beliefert. Im Winter 1983 waren es nur noch 7 Verkäufer und die Schließung des Marktes drohte. Eine Kooperative wurde gegründet, heute sind es über 200 Marktbeschicker.
Doch die Tage in diesem historischen Gebäude an der Lower Water Street sind gezählt.
Nur wenige Schritte weiter entsteht an der Waterfront der Seaport Farmers' Market. Der Seaport Market am Pier 20 ist ein ökologisches Vorzeigemodell in Nordamerika und wird an sechs Tagen in der Woche geöffnet sein, er verbindet die ländliche und städtische Wirtschaft der Provinz. - Große Städte haben große Märkte !!

Freitag, 8. Januar 2010

Adirondack Chair - The Throne of Summer


An Adirondack chair or Muskoka chair is a type of chair favored in rural, outdoor settings. The precursor to today's Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. He was on vacation in Westport, New York, in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, and needed outdoor chairs for his summer home. He tested the first designs on his family.
The original Adirondack chair was made with eleven pieces of wood, cut from a single board. It had a straight back and seat, which were set at a slant to sit better on the steep mountain inclines of the area. It also featured wide armrests, which became a hallmark of the Adirondack chair.
After arriving at a final design for the "Westport plank chair," Lee offered it to Harry Bunnell, a carpenter friend in Westport, who was in need of a winter income. Bunnell quickly realized the chair was the perfect item to sell to Westport's summer residents, and apparently without asking Lee's permission. Bunnell manufactured his plank chairs for the next twenty years. His "Westport Chairs" were all signed and made of hemlock in green or medium dark brown. The modern name refers to the Adirondack Mountains, which Westport is near.
Adirondack chairs are becoming popular as outdoor seating at cafés because the flat armrests are suitable for setting food and beverages on, making it possible to provide individual seating without tables.

Der Adirondack Chair ist der archetypische amerikanische Gartenstuhl. Seine Wurzeln gehen zurück ins Jahr 1903, als Thomas Lee, Eigentümer der Westport Mountain Quelle, das Original dieser Stühle für sein Sommerhaus in Westport, New York State baute.
Seine ersten Modelle sägte und nagelte er aus 11 Abschnitten einer einzigen Kieferplanke und es dauerte lange, bis er den optimalen Stuhl entworfen hatte. Den Prototypen gab er schließlich seinem Freund Harry Bunnell, einem Schreiner aus Westport, der für den nahenden Winter eine Beschäftigung suchte.
Bunnell erkannte sofort, dass der Stuhl das Zeug zum Verkaufsschlager für die Sommergäste in Westport hatte und ließ sich den Westport Chair 1904 patentieren. Er produzierte ihn 20 Jahre lang aus Hemlock Fichte, bemalte seine Modelle grün oder dunkelbraun und signierte jedes Modell eigenhändig. Für die damals $ 4 kostenden Stühle werden heute von Sammlern bis zu $ 3.000 bezahlt.

Adirondacks sind aus Teakholz, roter Zeder, weißer Zeder, gibt es natur, weiss, blau, grün, rot, gelb, pink. Es gibt sie als Einzelstuhl, als Love-Seat, als Tete-à-Tete-Modell, mit und ohne Fußschemel. Man findet sie fast in jedem Garten und auf jeder Veranda.

Rum Runners Rum Cake



Seafarers up and down the east coast of North America have always worked hard and risk their lives to make living. Sometimes, that living was made through less than legal means, but it always seems as though they were filling a need in society.
For a period on the 1920s and 1930s, these hearty souls were filling the needs of Prohibition starved residents of the US and later Canada by smuggling rum from Canada and France to their thirsty crowd. The Rum Running years were marked with lost ships, gunfights with the Coast Guard and incredible wealth to the ships´owners and crew.
Gordon Stevens was a Rum Runner from cape Breton in the 1920s and his wife used some of his illicit cargo to make a delicious golden cake soaked with rich, sweet rum. It`s obvious she was the brains in the family as this was the most ingenious means of getting rum to the people under the watchful eye of the authorities.
One day, not so long ago, we stumbled across the recipe for this delicious concotion and now it`s available to you without the risk of incarceration. The weathered recipe card read "Flour, Butter, Rum (and lots of it)...." soon after, we had our first taste of the glorious Rum Runners Rum Cake. We feasted for hours and that night dreamt of just one more bite.
When we awoke the next morning we felt resurrected, and knew we had to have another cake. We also knew that we had to share our amazing discovery and let the world Eat Cake! Inside each Rum Runners box you will find a rich golden cake, topped with glorious pecans & coconut and soaked with rich, sweet rum.
Take this cake on your journeys for nourishment and to make friends, nobody can resist its sweet, moist flavor and everyone will be looking for more.

You can buy these delicious pieces of history in Halifax. The Rum Runners Rum Cake Factory is located at Bishop's Landing, 1479 Lower Water Street.