new brunswick

The patterns on ice through out the winter are always changing with the tide, weather temperature and light. I love the calming sense of this image as the water slowly rises up through cracked ice

It is always a challenge to capture just the right wave rolling in and get the shutter speed slow enough to catch a little motion, but fast enough to retain shape. I love the way the light filters through the water right before the wave breaks.

Taken at a friends garden, this poppy invited me right in to it's heart.

always looking to find a different vantage point at light houses, I found this one on the ledges to the south of the light that I crossed to at low tide.

looking out over passamaquoddy bay towards st andrews. this particularly healthy and vibrant patch of juniper is fringed by a few wispy spruce that sway in the breeze of a summer storm as it passes overhead. a nice spot to sit and enjoy.

This is a panorama of Pea point light house from its southern ledges. It was actually quite a warm winter day and I had a great time soaking up the sounds, sights and sun. The smoothed out bedrock that surround the light show evidence of glacial pavement; areas where the rock is relatively smooth with the exception of many shallow parallel grooves in its surface where the last glacier grinded across it.

Macro lenses are so fun because they let you explore the extraordinary insides of flowers. I want my bedroom to look like that.

this photo was taken in a small cove on the eastern shore of passamaquoddy bay after a big dump just before christmas at the site of Harry and Martha Bryan's annual clambake. The quiet of the cove on that day was immense with a little tickle of the tide swallowing the snow as it rises. the tides are fun on this part of the coast as they change so much, 29 feet at the most.

once the flowers come out in the spring, I can't help but be drawn to them.

This is an idyllic scene that happens every year in the spring as Harry gets "Katie" out and readies her for the summer sailing season. Our dog peatl is sunning in the sand just under the rudder.

When winter really muckles on and it stays cold for a long time, the sea ice forms thick cakes. Strong NW winds pack the ice in MacNichol cove by Harry's boathouse. It's kind of fun to hop around on the cakes (at low tide)..... It's like a different world.

martin head is a wonderful place along the bay of fundy on the fundy footpath; 30 miles of undeveloped coastline roughly from the town of st. martins up the coast to fundy national park in new brunswick. this primrose was still blooming away in early october among the beach grass.

there is a trail up the hill from pea point light to a knoll covered in grasses and crowberry that are particularly snuggly and offers great views of the bay and the islands on a clear day. from here you can see the wolves, a small group of islands half way out to grand manan, and grand manan itself as well as campobello, deer island and all the other small islands dotting the bay.

this giant patch of rudbeckia appears in sadies' yard every summer. it is so big that there is a sense of place inside the patch among the stalks all tinted golden from the petals filtering the sun. I wanted to go inside but i couldn't fit but my camera could. this is what a rudbeckia room looks like.

Looking out on the bay one calm afternoon. It's fun to think we have our own mini flowerpot rock or "seastack" as some call them. new brunswick is so much more than hopewell rocks!

i had to run to get this shot. from the south side of seeleys head in new brunswick looking south west towards nova scotia. there was a small group of dead spruce by the shore perhaps too battered by the winds and sea spray to hold on any longer. they had a good view while they were around though.

I used this picture for our christmas card one year. I had a long exposure set and then I took a spotlight and shone it very briefly on the house and the falling snow.

macnichols cove is on the eastern shore of passamaquoddy bay in new brunswick. this morning was just after is blew 45 knots and rained for 3 days in october. the clouds were all leaving in a hurry being finished with their job, and left a faint rainbow before packing everything up and moving on

The old fisherman who used to live in our house had a weir in the cove across the road. He built the sheds out in back and this boat. one of two in the yard that have no doubt seen many days at work in the sea.

Just before Christmas in 2013 we had a wicked ice storm though not as bad as back in 98. We were lucky that we only lost power for a day whereas others were out for 2 weeks. At least the crystal coating on everything makes the aftermath sparkle.

This stump washed up onto the end of the small sandspit at a very high tide near the head of the cove. It is the perfect spot for it, kind of like an exclamation point or a centre piece.

This used to be the site of an old fish shack that local fishermen would stay in to tend their weir. Nothing is left of the shack or the weir although their is an old wooden skiff in amongst the alders behind where I took this shot. The clearing is being reclaimed by junipers now as the setting sun flows in.

I took this picture with my GoPro camera on a run around McGraws island one very cold day. When it is below -12 C (10 F) the seaweed gets quite crunchy and provides surprisingly solid traction. This is the only time of year to enjoy the below sea level runs.

Hardwoods are not all that common on the coast of New Brunswick, but when fall comes, they announce their hearty presence with a show of colour in the woods and the beaches.