Change in season

Well it's been a couple of weeks since I've posted anything - it's been pretty busy here and I've had no time to sort through and post photos. I've been picking lots of berries (blueberries & blackberries) and chokecherries and making them into jams and jellies. We've been visiting & being visited, painting the patio chairs, preparing for a corn boil and went to the Annapolis Valley Exhibition in Lawrencetown (photos to come). Tomorrow we're off to Annapolis Royal for the farm market and later in the week we'll head up the valley to Blueberry Acres (though not sure what we might happen up there).

Sometime since my last post fall fell on the valley. Yes, it's only August, but apparently around the time of the Ex, fall starts to set in here. Mornings and evenings are cool, in the low teens, but sunny afternoons are still in the low to mid 20s. I am no longer wearing sandals everywhere - I can't remember the last time I didn't wear sandals constantly from May to mid September! Never thought that I'd miss any part of the Toronto summer, but I wouldn't mind a couple more weeks of warm evenings & mornings. Mostly though because my eggplants are finally starting to come along and I'd like them to get big enough to eat. Guess NS just isn't cut out for eggplant growing, or at least not this summer, since it started later than usual.

One of our medium sized eggplants & chokecherries on the tree.

Dad and 2 of the newly painted chairs

Yesterday I visited my friend Dave at the family farm in Cole Harbour, east of Halifax and Dartmouth. I was happy that I managed to get a short visit in before he heads back to the UK tonight. We discovered that it's been over 4 years since we last saw each other!

Dave and the view from the farm. Well, actually this photo was taken from the provincial park that now abuts the family farm, part of the park land was donated by Dave's father 20 years ago. The Cole Harbour Heritage Park was only recently realized & is the largest protected salt water marsh in eastern Canada, perhaps in all of Canada.

Some wildflowers in the park and on the farm:

Fireweed & morning glory

Jack in the Pulpit