Finally!

Sunday Chickenburger

The highlight of our weekend was a trip to one of our favourite eateries in Halifax...Chickenburger!

Don't fret. No food porn this time.

Just a little bit of the decor.  Jukebox and retro neon!

This is what you see when you look up. :-)

And did you ever notice the picture window?

Could have been a Japanese garden out there....if you try hard enough to erase the Bedford Highway! :-)

Hockey Sticks

Canada won gold in both women's and men's hockey in the Sochi Olympics.  The whole country cheered.  I was right there in spirit.  In Canada, hockey is everywhere.  Now I love the game too...er, let me re-phrase... Now I love to watch the game too. :-)

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So...!  I thought I should put out a hockey-related post.  Spotlight on this lost-and-found box.

Look closely... It's made of old hockey sticks!  Don't you just love it?

This box can be found at the Centennial Arena...Home of the Halifax Hawks Minor Hockey Association.

This is the kind of place where it all starts.  From Peewee to NHL to Olympic gold!

Still Winter Here

It has been many snowstorms and blizzards since my last post.   

So I shall regale you with images of winter in Halifax. ;-)

This bus is in camouflage. :-)

My wife and I got caught in a nasty blizzard last month.  It was not a fun drive home.  No traction, poor visibility...every small incline felt like Mt. Everest.

Thank goodness for four-wheel drives and winter tires!  When we finally reached home, I felt deserving of a I-survived-the-blizzard t-shirt.  Maybe I should get some printed for next time...

No rushing home in the winter.  Gotta allow some time for the windows to clear up.  Below is the view from inside the car as I waited for the heating/defrosting to kick in.  I am not really sure how it happens but the windshield was actually frozen from the inside.  My ice scraper was next to useless for "inside jobs".

Let me end with a warm note.  My daughter's birthday cake...er, pie. :-) I am blessed with a daughter who prefers the simple to the glitzy.  It was a very happy time for the whole family. :-)

May spring be on our doorstep soon...

First Snowstorm Of The Season

May the snowblower gods look kindly upon us when the time comes to mobilize!

In other words.... Please start when I press the ignition button!

Persistent Or Stubborn?

At the back of our shop, there is an apple tree.  It is actually on our neighbour's property but its branches stretch past the fence.  Every autumn, this tree litters our place with little apples...and I love it when that happens, rotting apples notwithstanding!  It reminds me of the passing of the seasons; it reminds me of beginnings and endings.

Now the temperature hovers close to freezing.  Winter is coming and the tree's leaves are almost bare.  But I notice one apple left clinging...hanging on even in the face of certain death.  Not even the strong rainstorm last night dislodged it!  Is this apple especially persistent or merely stubborn?

The answer is probably neither. It simply isn't its time to go yet.  

I have much to learn from this apple.

Autumn Sunshine

Somebody recently told me that she loved autumn.  There is a crisp, cool caress in the wind and the colours...orange, yellow, red...are simply stunning.

These are the trees near the corner of Coburg Road and Larch Street.

One other great thing that is less oft mentioned about autumn is the long shadows cast by more sharply angled sunlight.

Here is the couch at the Keshen Goodman library close to dusk.

Late afternoon window light.

Early morning shadows at University of King's College.

....and the front lawn.

Late afternoon on Quinpool Road.

This last one was taken mid-day on Hollis Street.  No long outlines, but still I like to see the shadows at play!