About Lunenburg County, NS

A Special Gift from Nova Scotia!

If you ever visit Nova Scotia, there is at least one thing that you HAVE to do. You have to go to the lighthouse at Peggy's Cove. The granite rocks at Peggy's Cove are a wonder of nature. The water is deep and during a storm the waves are known to climb higher than the top of the lighthouse.

It can be a very dangerous place to visit. You don't turn your back on the waves and you don't walk on the wet rocks. People have been swept off the rocks and never seen again. If you respect the posted warning signs you will have a safe and enjoyable visit. Visitors to Nova Scotia often remark that Peggy's Cove was a highlight of their trip.

While at the lighthouse site many people visit the extensive gift shop, which features wonderful local products. The on site restaurant is a great place to stop and enjoy very tasty homestyle cooking.

In addition to the appeal provided by the lighthouse, Peggy's Cove is well known as a fishing village. You can stroll along the wharf, see the fishing boats and chat with local lobster fishermen.

For a virtual visit to Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia here is my gift to you. It is dedicated to my friend and fellow blogger, Richard Yates, who is breaking blogging records. He has not been to Nova Scotia. Perhaps he will come, someday.

It took my breath away, I had to stop and shoot it!

As I was driving to work one morning this week, I was astounded by the beauty around me. This is part of my regular route and it is always beautiful. That morning, it was dead calm with beautiful light. I had to stop and take these photos. The mirroring of the landscape in the water is amazing. The white in the lower right of the second photo is a reflection of a cloud in the sky. The third photo is also a shot of the sky, reflected in the water. These photos were taken in West LaHave along the LaHave River in Lunenburg County, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.

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I would like to invite you to subscribe to my blog. I think you will find it interesting and informative. I write about my community. I ask questions of other Activerainers, when I need help with something. You can read their answers in my comments section. I write about things of interest to buyers, sellers and real estate agents. Sometimes I share recipes. Sometimes I video blog. I like to sprinkle a little humor around and take life with a grain of salt.

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An Activity Worthy of a Sunday Afternoon!

My friends Audrey and Wolf have a lovely cottage, on Caribou Lake, in Nova Scotia. They love to feed the hummingbirds. I sat under their birch tree watching the birds, there were at least eight of them. They are so tiny and move so fast, it's hard to keep track of where they are and where they are going. If you watch closely you can see a couple of them in this short video.

I don't know what I did wrong, The embedding didn't work. Any suggestions? OK now it's even stranger. I can see the video in the WYSIWYG view, but when I post the blog entry it isn't there.

You'll never believe what happened when I entered the Vbloggers Contest.

I said I would enter the contest, but getting the entry ready took a lot more time than I thought it would. It was a marathon! In addition to the activities that normally fill my day, I had to learn a lot of new things, to put this vblog together. There was the filming and editing which I had done before. But this time there was also searching for the "How to's", to put the video, music and narration together. Eventually, I had all the pieces I needed and felt I had a suitable entry.

The next step was upload it to Youtube. Well, for some reason Youtube threw up everytime I tried to upload it.(NOT a reaction to the content, I hope.) Apparently, Youtube was having a problem with my format. After many tries, I got it formatted to please Youtube, and it uploaded. Ahhh the fruits of my labor. :-) I was very pleased with myself.

I logged back into Youtube to view my creation. What's this :-0 a spelling error in my work of art? Yes sir eee Mama, a completely avoidable spelling mistake. Can you find it? http://actvra.in/j72 (Thanks to the woderful techs at Activerain for short urls.)