Snowy Cart

Nearby playground, found this shopping cart in the snow.

Shopping Cart in the Snowy Park

Seems to have come from Shoppers.

Moose, Passage, Tree

Eventful day: visited the Cow Bay Moose, played on a playground overlooking the ocean, popped into Shore Things, and ended the day with a new Christmas tree from a local lot — it fit in our car’s trunk!

Cow Bay Moose Oceanview Vintage NS record Picking a Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree

Been a while since we last visited the moose. Should do that more often. (Note: small cheat; this entry was backdated, sorry)

Autumnal

Another autumn, the leaves change, the trees turn colours.

Maple leaves changing colour
Cole Harbour Heritage Park
Autumnal Backyard Maples

Fall. It gets colder and darker. Some of the maple leaves are fiery.

Old Lawrencetown Road Trail in Autumn
Autumnal Maple Leaf

And soon the trees are bare again, and we can see to the ocean.

Leaves Mostly Gone

Winter snow soon. For now, always relevant Onion article.

Rainbow

Sun in the west peeked through storm clouds in the late afternoon, and a bright double rainbow appeared in the east, visible all over Halifax. Caught the full arc from work with the wide angle lens of my GoPro:

Rainbow Over Halifax

Probably the brightest rainbow I’ve seen, with the pronounced inner brightening clearly visible. Note the helicopter just inside the outer rainbow, to the left. (Might need to view this at full size to see it.)

Halloween 2021

Ezra was Mario for Halloween, complete with adhesive moustache and plush paunch insert.

Halloween 2021

Meanwhile I borrowed his astronaut helmet and hovered in the window behind the table we had set up on the front porch for trick-or-treaters.

Halloween 2021

It was mostly rainy and windy so we stayed in and did an in-house candy hunt, but were able to do a little trick-or-treating around immediate neighbours (masked and distanced) between bursts of precipitation. That sufficed for this Halloween.

Eastern Passage

Spent a Sunday afternoon at McCormack’s Beach Provincial Park: walking the boardwalk, sitting on the the beach to picnic on some drive-thru chicken nuggets, admiring the view of Halifax.

McCormack’s Beach Provincial Park View of Halifax from McCormack’s Beach

We also browsed through Shore Things and bought a little buoy ornament, then took the kid to a school called Oceanview to play in the playground for a bit.

Shore Things, Eastern Passage NS Oceanview

There was indeed an ocean view.