After supper last night, we just pointed our car east and started driving. We did not have a destination in mind. Finally though, we figured that we would scout out Covehead Lighthouse which is located in the Prince Edward Island National Park near Stanhope. We…
For the past 10 years or so we have come to Prince Edward Island in late August. Sultry hot weather can be interspersed with cool and blustery periods, so we are certain to see the lights of John Deere tractors working late into the night…
Regular readers of our social media accounts will recognize this image. For the past many years, our trips to Prince Edward Island have pulled us to this location on our first free moment. I have dozens of images of this lighthouse, but it…
“The Spectacle before us was indeed Sublime” – A Trip To Venus, John Munro, (1897) A technical task brings to mind a pleasant memory I love the ornate language that John Munro used here. I had never heard of his book “A Trip to Venus”,…
I found the poem below to be a perfect description of our evening this past Tuesday. After supper, we left our cottage and decided to follow our noses to find some pictures. In this windy place, clear and calm evenings are somewhat rare. This view…
Before starting work, we decided to head to Stanhope for sunrise pictures. Glad that the sun didn’t cooperate because we turned our attention to the blue herons who were feeding in the bay. We managed to fill more than one memory card. Marcy was stationed…
I consider sunrise photography to be difficult. I have never had much luck, but maybe I can at least get better. There was a lot to learn this morning (Saturday, Sept 9) at Covehead. – my pictures suffered noise, focus and composition problems. I didn’t…
It is clear, cool and DARK here along the North Atlantic. Northern Lights were forecast for last week, and I hoped to get pictures, so we researched photographing them and set up the camera. Nothing materialized. While waiting for something to happen, Marcy and I…
During last year’s trip to Prince Edward Island, we began a quest to find all of the 50 or so lighthouses scattered around the Island. Some of these are just industrial looking metal towers, but there are some beautiful quaint ones as well. …
Time for parting shots… Very long one ahead of us tomorrow as we leave the cottage at 6:45 a.m. and arrive in Knoxville at 11:00 p.m. We visited the osprey nest again today and saw the male fly in with a small rabbit for his…
