Great drive last week, the light cast a different perspective on things. Victorian, Queen Anne, Georgian architectural influences!
Category: Museums
Anne Frank poetry
Death March
By Dawn Illsley
We marched like dead souls,
Through hallways, not stopping.
Not daring.
Like the end was our fate.
I feel the shame,
The disgrace.
We quietly weeped,
As we shuffled upstairs,
It’s still, silence I heard,
On that ghostly trek.
My life faded away,
I was stuck there in that place,
Reality dissolved,
Time took a break.
Those little rooms,
Housing ghosts.
The walls paper thin like a dolls house.
Why is it,
Words pour out,
When tears are flowing.
I saw a pile of shoes
They didn’t need anymore.
Telling a story
Of loss,
Of life never led.
A pile of shoes,
In someone’s porch,
makes me think,
Of that day in May.
The deafening silence.
That I witnessed.
The life that was erased.
(Visiting the Anne Frank Museum)
Louisbourg Day 4
Glorious!
The Tall Ships arrived!!!!!
Look at all I accomplished this week and I loved every minute of it!!!
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Louisbourg Day 4
Another wonderful day…
Processing…
The Tall Ships are coming!!! The Bluenose was there when I drove in this AM. We had a chance to perch ourselves on top of Black Rock. Birds eye view. Lucky birds. 350 year old graffiti up here, a French solider carved "Louis" into the rock.
Louisbourg Day 3
So many great things today. Working at processing artifacts.
So beautiful! I love puzzles!
Got some fresh air when we checked out a few things around The Fortress.
After Volunteering I headed to Kennington Cove a popular beach nearby.
A truly glorious day!
Louisbourg Day 2
Nice and relaxing today.
Cleaning artifacts.
I found this artifact bag with my excavator initials on it from 2013.
A backlog of artifacts to process. I have my work cut out for me. It's pretty interesting to to see all the artifacts up close. One of my favourite things to do in the Archaeology lab.
Dawn
Louisbourg Day 1
Great first day volunteering with Fortress Louisbourg Archaeology.
Digging through boxes of bones to find a really old Dog skeleton so it can be studied.
You can camp overnight at the fortress!!!
More bones….
Ummmm…..packaging of artifacts circa 1967….
Mahone Bay Adventure
Today was a grand day for gallavanting. Sunny and hot. I slept in and landed at Rebecca’s Restaurant at 1300. My favorite destination for lunch in Mahone Bay. The menu is always refreshing. I had Sweet Potato soup, Shrimp and mushroom Risotto cakes with a side salad and for dessert traditional Nova Scotia Strawberry Shortcake. It was made with the best tea biscuit I’ve had since my grandmother’s for sure. The new location is brillant. On Edgewater Street, it has loads of parking and seating.
Right Next door there is a newly opened shop, called Sprig Apothecary, it literally had at all my favourite things for sale. Succulents, lotions, beautifying products, and pretty little pots. So I added a little succulent to my growing indoor garden and some beauty products to pamper myself. It was fun, like a day at the spa, my style.
Down the way I stopped at Have A Yarn, and found some new color ways. It’s a new company RavensWood Fibre Co. A local company!
Another new shop on Main is a sweet little interior design shop. Here Nor There. I picked up a seagrass basket, and a macrama plant holder. The plant holder I’ve been ages waiting for and it’s perfect.
I dropped in to Birdsall-Worthington Pottery for a gander and found beautiful hand made earrings.
Finally ended up at Peacocks Antiques and found some awesome vintage clothing, stay tuned for those outfits. Including a perfect birthday dress for July.
Nerd Quest
Today I was lucky enough to be able to go to a pre historic ceramic workshop at The Nova Scotia museum. 
Fascinating stuff!
We had a hands-on day and were able to view some of the Erkskine collection. Beautiful early pottery collection of maritime aboriginal peoples.
❤️
Maudie
This movie was awesome! I laughed, cringed, and cried. Ethan Hawke (Everett Lewis) and Sally Hawkins (Maud Lewis) play the lead roles. Sally Hawkins obviously put a lot of heart and soul into the role. Ethan, I haven’t watch him in many roles, Dead Poets Society probably was the last one I saw. I’m totally in his fan club now! The Cinematography was beautiful. Shot in NFLD but resembled Digby and Marshalltown N.S. I was impressed. 
Dawn's Chronicles 