Nova Scotia

 Welcome to Edie's random photo album of Nova Scotia photos from Edie and Marty's bike tour in Aug-Sept. 2012.

Marty is looking at two whale rib bones adorning the driveway of an abandoned home on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore, near Tangier. The locals told us that it was at one time a whole row of ribs down either side.

Marty found many squiggly lines leading out to lands ends on his map, we took many of them and were treated to dramatic headlands, rugged rocky beaches, gusting winds and crashing waves and fisherman shanty 'villages.' This causeway above led to one such shanty village.

 


 



There was no shortage of folk art on this tour. There were the more casual practitioners who pressed it into more practical uses, like markers or signs,

and there were those who used it to express some inner passions or desires to create,


 




 

 and there were those who used it for all of the above as well as to support their family! This is Barry Colpitts' house in Tangier who used his house as signage and had small charming gallery building in the back with recently made items for sale. I say recently made Because he seems to sell them as fast as he makes them. We stopped by to see him on our second day of riding and I could only buy one small yellow and black polka dotted bird that rode in my bicycle panniers in an oatmeal box for two weeks. But att the end of our two weeks, we made a last minute visit to his gallery again when I realized he was not too far from where we had parked the car and we happened to have a "spare" two hours the night before we had to leave for good. So we called him, set up a visit and when we got there he only had two pieces available for sale- the two he had just finished that day. Every piece he had had in his gallery two weeks earlier had been sold. I bought one of the two pieces he had available, so I was happy. (It was a LARGE yellow and black polka dotted bird.)