It is officially spring in Nova Scotia. We have had a number of really beautiful days over the last few weeks. Not this past weekend but the one before we met my parents in Liverpool and went for a walk through this beautiful garden that is there and then for a drive. The garden is called Cosby’s Garden Centre and it has these absolutely amazing concreate sculptures made by local artist Ivan Higgins. This one below is my favorite. It goes back quite a ways. I am not sure how far exactly but it would take a good hour, maybe more to walk all the way through and my mom who has been there before said there is always more every time she goes. Though…

On Tuesday a wildfire broke out not too far from where we live, less then 3km “as the crow flies”. The fire, in the Bayer’s Lake Business Park and shopping district at Susie’s Lake, Nova Scotia (NS) was just a little too close to home for comfort. I was at a nearby building for work, which was higher up and with a better vantage point of the fire so I was keeping my husband updated as he was a bit closer to the fire at our buildings. We were close enough that we had ash falling on us and thick smoke. To say it was unnerving is an understatement. I think we both felt on edge right into the night. Luckily they attacked the fire…