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Stanley Park Totem Poles
Chief Skedans Mortuary Pole, Stanley Park, Vancouver ___ Stanley Park is a beautiful, peaceful greenspace on a sprawling peninsula in the heart of bustling Vancouver. The Park’s collection of native...
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Artist to Appreciate: Mary Pratt
Mary Pratt, Cold Cream (1983) ___ Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and living in St. John’s, Newfoundland for most of her life and career, Mary Pratt is one of Canada’s realist painters of the...
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Along the Bay of Fundy Coast
Driftwood, Early Morning, Parker’s Cove, Nova Scotia * * * “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo...
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A Peek at the Annapolis Valley
View Across the Annapolis Valley and Minas Basin I, Nova Scotia ___ View Across the Annapolis Valley and Minas Basin II, Nova Scotia “This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals...
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Peaceful Seaside Inlet in Newfoundland
A Quiet Fishing Village, Newfoundland “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~Henry David Thoreau...
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Fort Amherst and The Narrows, St. John’s, Newfoundland
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”...
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Gentle Waves Near Capstick, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.”...
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Beautiful Brisk Day on the Lake
Kejimkujik Lake, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” ~e.e. cummings Tagged:...
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Shore Marshes and Big Sky in Early Evening, Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Tagged: Annapolis Valley, Beauty, Canada, Coastal Scenery, Inspiration,...
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Low Tide on the Moose River, Clementsport, Nova Scotia
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all...
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Artist to Appreciate: Christopher Walker
Christopher Walker, Devotion (2008) Christopher Walker is a Canadian contemporary realist painter whose subject matter reflects a distinct sense of the grand and the awe-inspiring as well as his wide...
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Simple Beauty in Stanley Park
Along the Seawall, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. ~ “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”...
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The Orenda and the Constant of Change
Oh, that bittersweet feeling of finishing a good book that not long before was a welcome and constant companion! So it is with my having just finished Joseph Boyden’s The Orenda, a gripping epic...
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Ossington Avenue Graffiti
Crisscrossing the streets of Toronto, it struck me that I had to look harder there than in Montreal to find graffiti or street art. But what’s to be found in Toronto is every bit as varied and...
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Robert McAffee — Artist to Appreciate
Robert McAffee, The Foot of the Falls Toronto-based Robert McAffee’s contemporary landscape art is striking in many ways. His lush scenes of the Canadian wilderness pay homage to the influences of...
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Early Fall, Kejimkujik Seaside, Nova Scotia
“Make each step with intention and surrender and you will move forward on your path. Be kind to others. Honor the mystery and wonder that surrounds us at every moment.”...
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Appreciating Each Precious Moment
Floating Fall Leaves, Butchart Gardens, Victoria, B.C. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”...
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Crisp Maritimes Morning
Rusted Tiller Wheel, Annapolis Valley, N.S., Along the Bay of Fundy Coast “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”...
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Quiet Autumn Sunset, New Brunswick
Near Sunset, Looking Across the Lubec Narrows, Campobello Island, New Brunswick “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”...
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Welcoming Another Year of Wonder
Lichen-Covered Rocks and Windblown Pine, Kejimkujik Seaside, Nova Scotia “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”...
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