Gone Fishing

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.~~ Herbert Hover

I love this sign posted on the Lahave River in Lunenburg County. Porky Pig's face is hidden, and I couldn't get a clear shot, but I'm sure anyone stopping by the river got the message. 

 

Hay Day

"Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die."~~~ Joe Hill

Hay bales in Farmington, Nova Scotia

 

Floater Planes

More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost, if you can conceive of such a combination.  ~Wilbur Wright

The South Shore Aviation Club flew by New Germany Lake on Saturday to put on a display. The shoreline was filled with these little floater planes.

 

Big Pine Tree

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.  ~Denise Levertov

 

Eagle Nest

“We are eagles of one nest - the nest is in our soul.”  Led Zeppelin

This nest is just outside Sobey's in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia at the top of a high pole. We saw one head moving about but couldn't get a good view. Not sure if eagles are occupying this nest or some other large bird.

Apple Blossoms

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~~Anais Nin

Blossoms from the apple tree outside my back door

Ditch Trout?

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ~~Oliver Wendell Holmes

If lake trout are found in lakes, and brook trout in brooks, what do we call trout that were found in a ditch?