Music for the road

August 15: Fort Louisbourg, Nova Scotia


The girls and I will head home this morning. It will probably take a few days to fix my computer, and until then I won’t have internet access. I still have things to write about the trip, but for now it must go in my handwritten journal.

I don’t normally spend much time listening to music; it affects me too deeply. At home I work in silence, perhaps putting on a CD while washing dishes.

The main exception is while driving, when I listen to Classical music radio. My tastes are more eclectic, but I never have time to get in touch with anything else.

While preparing for the trip, facing many long hours of driving, I treated myself extravagantly to a handful of new CDs. Driving and listening to popular music for at least 70 hours in two weeks had an unexpected effect: stirring up poetry in my head. I had little opportunity to record it, and now the ideas slip away like the fruit eluding Tantalus. What this means is I need to make more time in my life for music and poetry.

Until I can reconnect with the internet, here are three favourite photos from the trip.







August 19: Hollyhocks in Victoria, Prince Edward Island







August 21: Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick