Now That Winter is Officially Gone...

I look back and think "well, that wasn't so bad". It's just a distant memory now that everywhere I look are trees with flowers, ditches with flowers, people's gardens blooming back to life everywhere, including my own spring surprises on our land.

Nova Scotia is called "Canada's Ocean Playground" but it could equally be named "Canada's Flower Wonderland". It's one of the first things I noticed when we moved here, just the absolute abundance of wild flowers everywhere. It's a magical place (9 months of the year) and I'm lucky to call it Home.

The Maple trees doing their flower thang.

I have no clue what kind of tree this is but I pretty much jumped for joy when I rounded a bend and it came into view. I started taking photos of it and a man on a riding lawnmower drove by me and was smiling at me, it must have been his, and I think it made him happy to know his tree brings others joy.

Above: Flowers in ditches. Below: Soon to be flowers in ditches (lupin)

Everywhere I walk I see lupin greens, it's going to be a stellar year for them by the looks of it. There is nothing better than seeing the lupins taking over the Nova Scotia highways every summer.

I don't even know what to possibly say about those dandelions in the ditch, can we even call that a ditch? Those babies are growing out of gravel. They are real inspirations and I have a lot of good feelings whenever I see flowers and trees growing out of rocks. Life will always go on. No matter the obstacle.

Wild Strawberry also doesn't seem to give a care about growing in gravel and ditches, their foliage is lining the sides of the road, and soon will be the beautiful white flowers followed by teeny tiny strawberries. Mmmm...dangerous picking there, but worth the effort. No children allowed obviously.

These were pussy willows last week, I love how they burst to life.

This one sort of looks like the first tree, but with white flowers instead of pink. If you know what this is please feel free to share.

Have I killed you with flower and tree overload yet? One last pic I promise, then I'll get to the next subject :)

Some Birds

The one with the fanned out tail was singing a really beautiful song...(don't look bottom left corner, more flower trees!)

A rockin' Robin

The #allseeingru's Great Aunt Mildra

A few folks around here name their houses...

And I decided yesterday that is a life goal of mine now hahaha, to have a home with some land and then name it, I will be just like @winstonalden and @donnadavisart with their charming Toad Hall sounding like it comes straight out of "The Wind in the Willows".

Tara of the Rich Field

A Beautiful View From Those Top Windows I Bet

That's the view from ground level.

Searenity has a pretty sweet view of St. Margaret's Bay too (though it's about to be obscured by deciduous trees.

It's Tourist Season

I always wanted to live somewhere that I could complain all haughtily about the damn tourists, life goal achieved. There are many tour busses going by to see historical Peggy's Cove Lighthouse and the incredible rocks now, and the best part is all of the sweet cars and bikes that come out to play too. Yesterday I got passed by about 40 Corvettes until I finally took out my camera and got some shots thinking maybe some of my friends here would like to see them. There are always car enthusiasts driving out in big gangs to Peggy's Cove.

The Boys Wanted to Swim in the Ocean!

It was so warm and muggy out yesterday that they just knew it was time to break in the old lifejackets and get out back for a swim. They didn't care when I warned them that the water would be freezing. Gotta love children. I was like that too when I was younger, you couldn't keep me out of water if the sun was out. I love having the ocean in our backyard, these next scenes are basically our whole summer. Paradise.

This is why we left the city...and even though we suffer a bit financially, I will take this any day over our old suburbia with no trees and no people around enjoying nature, everyone in their houses...it almost felt like a zombie apocalypse some days when I would walk around our old neighbourhood. Very few birds...houses almost touching...permaculture non existent...plastic, regulated, playgrounds, no one around just blue lights coming out of windows. We wanted to live somewhere where the whole land was our kids' playground, and we found it.

A toe in. I think they finally believe me now that it's cold, yet that doesn't deter them. They form a plan to just run in as fast as they can. Smart boys!

Kiedis First

Then Stryder

And then they both run back to Mom and Dad needing immediate towel snuggles!

Thanks for joining me on another beautiful day in Canada's Ocean Playground, the best place be for the coming financial Apocalypse.

Here's one of many beautiful places you could buy ;) Seriously the land and homes in Nova Scotia are so undervalued (because there's not a lot of "work", and we all know work is all that matters in life right). We are the best kept secret in this whole country.

One final piece of awesomeness, we are getting a visitor from the USA that we met on STEEM come this weekend, we're super excited to meet our buddy @michaelevans in Real Life!!! After all of these walks, I'm sure he'll be the one showing me around LOL! Looking forward to it Michael and I hope you have a safe journey here.