February 2012

Photos of the Week on Cape Breton Island for February 2012

Photo of the Week February 24, 2012 - St Peter's. Driving in on Highway 4 from Sydney you see on the left the Provincial Building and on the right is the St Peter's Visitor Information Centre. This photo was taken after last week's sowstorm.

This was Photo of the Week February 17, 2012. The photo was taken in South Bar, which is located on the Highway 28 between Whitney Pier and New Victoria. Love the lawn ornaments!

Photo of the Week February 10, 2012 taken in Dundee. Even though it was a beautiful sunnny day with the temperatures at plus 2 Celsius, the wind was still a little raw.  It felt more like MINUS 30 Celsius when just sitting around, holding a fishing line in a hole in the ice and waiting for a bite. Didn't get one bite, but the fresh air and sunshine was a good thing for the soul!  

Photo of the Week February 3, 2012, L'Ardoise. This photo was taken on our morning walk on Chapel Cove Rd.

There's No Wrong Turn

Cape Breton Island - Nova Scotia's Masterpiece...

In this video you'll find everything you'll ever love about this Island. Visit Cape Breton Island's official website or my Cape Breton Living website if you need to see more of this wonderful place on earth! 

So we would love to see you.... when are you coming?

Photo of the Week milestone

A photo a week for 10 years!

It was one Friday in November 2001 when the idea of sharing one photo a week of Cape Breton Island came to mind. Everywhere I went, I always carried my camera and everywhere you look there's a picture perfect occasion to capture a slice of Nova Scotia's Masterpiece, Cape Breton Island.  

So every Friday, if you come back to the Cape Breton Living's -  Photo of the Week website you will find a new photo of that special little piece of Cape Breton Island.

Check out all the past photos here on Photobucket and Webshots. You can also find the most recent ones on Flickr. If you have a photo you would like to share with the world, please send it to capebretonliving@gmail.com .

Thank you to all those that sent and shared their photos and hoping we'll get to keep on sharing photos for another decade!

This photo of Irish Cove Look-off was the very first Photo of the Week posted November 16, 2001

Road trip to Cheticamp

Sunday morning we headed out for a little road trip from L'Ardoise to Cheticamp. First I checked the Environment Canada website which stated a mix of sun and cloud for Richmond and Inverness Counties. The sky was mostly cloudy at the start of our road trip, but later saw the sun, more clouds and sun again later in the day. First stop in St Peter's, we picked up a coffee and then headed out towards Port Hawkesbury. From there we got on the Trans Canada and turned off  in Whycocomah and followed the highway through East Lake Ainslie, Upper Margaree, South West Margaree and Margaree Forks. We are now on the Cabot Trail and heading for Cheticamp.  Once there, we had a little lunch, took some pitures (of course) and turned around to head back. On the way we stopped at Le Centre de la Mi-Carême in Grand Etang. Here we enjoyed learning and viewing a colourful display of artwork about the history of an old Acadian tradition (La Mi-Carême) that is still being celebrated in the Cheticamp area. The way back home, we traveled the Route 19 through the town of Inverness, Mabou, Judique, Craignish and Port Hawkesbury. By 4:30pm we were back in L'Ardoise, where we still had daylight time to sit outside and enjoy the day on this Labour Day weekend...

  

Someone else on a Sunday drive around East Lake Ainslie

Pretty Cheticamp shops

The Love Boat going out for a tour in Cheticamp

View from Le Centre de la Mi-Careme

Cap Le Moine

Overlooking Margaree Harbour

Little treasures from the beach

A couple of pieces of beach glass and other little treasures found during this morning's walk on the beach...

This old chair

A couple of years ago, I found these two old wood folding chairs at a Value Village store in Sydney, Cape Breton. They were both in rough shape, barely sturdy enough for an adult to sit on, but still good enough to display in the garden just for show. After a couple of years of enduring our maritime weather, the blue paint wore off and they ended up falling apart but I managed to salvage one chair out of the two. A couple of coats of white paint and picking the best slats out of the two chairs for the seat, it was good enough to bring one chair back to life.  I'm glad I didn't send them both to the dump but decided to recycle instead...

Yellow buttercups and purple clovers

I don't know if it's because the sun was shining so bright all day today, I couldn't resist finding that the wild flowers (or are they weeds) in the fields all around had such vivid colours. I gathered a few yellow buttercups and purple clovers and created a wonderful little bouquet, set in an old pottery vase that I found in the back porch. It's now the month of July and I can finally say that it feels like summer...