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Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, so I want to extend Happy Thanksgiving wishes to my fellow Canucks.

It wasn’t difficult to find something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend here in Eastern Nova Scotia; you just had to look -- or better, go -- outside.

We often get very pleasant fall weather here in eastern Nova Scotia, in some ways it’s our most dependable season. but this year it’s been extraordinary. Mostly sunny and warm (hot by local standards). It’s raining today, but we’ve only had six days with any precipitation at all in the past six weeks, and just two, counting today, that could be categorized as “rainy days.” The other was the tail end of Hurricane Juan.

We usually don’t get snow that sticks here before Christmas, but I can recall racing in snow flurries in a Thanksgiving Weekend regatta. I definitely don’t recall spending any Thanksgiving Sundays in the hot sun at the beach, but that’s where I went yesterday. Some folks were even swimming (water temp 60° F).

Thought you might enjoy a few shots from the beach (which is about half a mile from my house) and other local vistas.

Here’s a shot of our beach:

And another aspect:

This is looking out to sea from the top of a hill behind the beach:

And this is wht you see turned 180° from the top of the same hill:

Incidentally, if you’re wondering why Canada celebrates Thanksgiving nearly two months earlier than the U.S., the Encarta encyclopedia explains that: “Because Canada is north of the United States, its harvest comes earlier in the year. Accordingly, the Thanksgiving holiday falls earlier in Canada than in the United States. The Canadian Parliament set aside November 6 for annual Thanksgiving observances in 1879. In 1957 the date was shifted to an even earlier day, to the second Monday in October.”

Charles W. Moore

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