Discovering Canada

Since I've moved back to Canada, It's been an absolute delight to explore my own country for a change. Here are some pictures from my North American travels of the last two years:

After so many trips to Scotland,

at last I went to Nova Scotia.

As you can see, the weather is

exactly the same.

This is in the Bay of Fundy. There be dragons.

Clams are very rich, and I cannot recommend

eating more than forty in one sitting.

Quebec and Ontario are too close to home

to be interesting in landscape,

but it has been a treat to rediscover them

from a "Terroir" perspective. Quebec cidre

is particularly good.

Ontario wine.

For the first time in ages I have

participated in my country's local 

holidays.

I've seized a few opportunities to head south of the border. 

Here is Philly, with old and new very much side by side.

At last I made it here! 

Visiting friends from the Old World are an excellent excuse to head to Quebec City,

Canada's "see, we are old too."

Also a chance to introduce friends to the cultural baggage that is our bread and butter.

Ontario's beauty is small-scale.

No room in the family canoe,

but I was pretty happy to be the

odd one out (Georgian Bay).

Ontario also holds the gateway to Narnia, by the way.

Not telling where.

Let's play "find the lamppost."

The West Coast is over-the-top stunnery.

This is the ferry coming through

Action Pass at dusk.

The US border is everywhere

when you're Canadian.

Mount Baker looms in the US Cascades.

Impressive as a thousand year old church

is a thousand year old tree.

 

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I always though "Crazy Canuck" was a ä

British term of endearment.

Only in Canada would we embrace it

to such a level.

British Columbia is gorgeous, and it knows it.

And this is home.