carbonated

these photos by suzanne ahearne on my camera.

buckfast abbey

we started here. i did not take too many photos but you can see more here,
including an a amazing stain glass room in the church. the buckfast monks
make a wine that is quite strong and, i am told, quite favoured by certain
people in scotland.

widdicombe

the tour guides were my son-of-a-cousin and his lovely girlfriend pictured above.

haytor

from haytor to shelston tor

down by the river

This the walk to visit my aunt
who is recovering from an injury
at a place called People Care.

dog days of summer

on the weekend in stratford ontario:

peggy's cove

On June 12 Ronalda, David, Debbie and I went to Peggy's Cove. I was so happy. As soon as I knew that I was going to Halifax, I had a huge craving to stand out on those rocks in the wind. And I could not have been in better company. What fine people these are.

on the rocks

David explored the nooks and crannies.

While Debbie pondered...

and wondered...


and searched...

and enjoyed the plant life...

the beales

After we had explored the rocks, Ronalda and I walked into the town







past the goats


to the Jo Beale Gallery.We looked at the art and chatted with Jo. I bought some beautiful watercolour cards and took a picture through her window. I told her that I used to go to school with her brothers Kelly and Tobias. She said that Tobias might be at Beale's Bailiwick (a gift shop) and that Kelly might be at the Old Red Schoolhouse painting the door.



We checked BB but no Tobias.

We walked up to the ORS.





We saw signs of work but no sign of Kelly.
And, as you can see,
the door had not yet been painted.




We heard a thumping noise coming from here and we called out his name but still no Kelly. Perhaps the thumping was the wind or perhaps Kelly was hiding.
If you want to see Kelly, click here.

more rocks

After the fruitless search for the elusive Beale brothers, we looked at the memorial for the fishers of Peggy's Cove.




Then we drove to the memorial for the passengers of the Swiss Air flight that crashed close by and the people who helped the families recover and recover artifacts from the flight.

People did not like this memorial put up by the government, so they built another one near Bayswater that has the names of all the people who died. If you create a triangle from this memorial out into the ocean and to the one in Bayswater, the point of the triangle is at the crash site.