Field Notes ~ Cumberland County, Nova Scotia

When I first moved to Nova Scotia and married Dwayne, our first goal was establishing a flock of chickens.  A year earlier, before I'd e...

  The new year has started with a rush!  I'm working to an unexpected and very tight deadline, hoping to wrap it up today and get it sen...

  This morning, when I got out of bed and looked out the window, I saw a bright star. Then I saw others, but that first star, that first sig...

  That photo was taken at 1:15 am on January 1st, 2020. Two tired, happy, danced-out people thinking that intentionally partying away the ol...

  Here are the trees I painted using the cuts leftover from building our gazebo two years ago, specifically the plywood from making the octa...

December 21, 2020   Here’s the thing:  there will always be a  longest darkest night (even in a year of long, dark nights) and we are not th...

  As we countdown to Christmas 2020, what some might call "the worst Christmas ever," here is a story about what some might call m...