Magical Sunday

We have survived the week. The ‘old’ house is empty. The next step is a thorough clean and photographs to put online.

Today, we took a well-deserved break. We went over to Hampton Beach on the Bay of Fundy. It was low tide, and not a soul on the beach. This caused me to reflect on Ernest Buckler : the mountain and the valley. What was missing ?

The landscape of Annapolis County must include the effects of the tides and the Bay of Fundy. It is truly a microcosm: within a few kilometers we can enjoy the new agriculture: apple orchards and vineyards in the Valley; the woodlot management on both North and South Mountain; the fishing resources found along the Nova Scotia shore.

Afterwards, we drove back through Clarence. We remembered the tradition of dairy farming. Our old house has been replaced by a new building, owned by the Den Haan’s.

We stopped at the Clarence Country Market in the community hall. Live music on a Sunday morning. sale of crafts, plants, books by local authors. Beautiful lavender plants, quilts, home-made preserves.

After lunch, I returned to our ‘old house’. Time to tidy up the lawns. An opportunity to ride on the Z-track. We visited the orchard across the road, and mowed the trail down towards the triangle field (above the Annapolis River). This has been a form of therapy for a number of years.

Afterwards, stopped at Bees Knees in Lawrencetown, for a loaf of brown bread and a slice of chocolate pie.

Acknowledgements

Heather and I both appreciate the changes in land use, land ownership and the landscape of Annapolis County. We first arrived here, with two young boys, in 1980.