{"id":11568,"date":"2022-07-01T06:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2022-07-01T06:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:48:50","slug":"canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We went to Canada overnight. Sam had a training workshop for municipal government in Presque Isle Maine. Instead of staying in Maine, he found an AirBnB in Woodstock, New Brunswick. It was an interesting, refreshing get-away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While he was at the training, I walked on the Great Trail. I enjoyed seeing all the signs in both English and French. I remember some French from high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Woodstock, New Brunswick. Trail along the Saint John River. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trust Time <\/a>happened while on the road. Sam was driving. I warned him ahead of time that I was going to sit quietly for 5 minutes. He could talk to me, but I probably wouldn’t respond. I stopped my role as navigator and of course he missed a turn and had to double-back. But he handled it fine, got back on track, and I enjoyed my peaceful time. I didn’t tune into any deep thoughts or connective feelings but just experienced time passing. I thought of Jude’s words “floating through time.” In my case, driving through time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of flags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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River Valley Scenic Drive sign. \u201cNew Brunswick decided to use this sign for the 512 km scenic route through the province.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the way home, we traveled south through New Brunswick to St. Andrews. It’s on a peninsula near the Bay of Fundy (on Passamaquoddy Bay actually). A resort-type town, but not as hectic as Bar Harbor. We easily found a place to park for lunch. Mostly we enjoyed the Sculpture Garden at the Kingsbrae Gardens there. I found myself critical of the gardens because they didn’t identify the plantings well and they didn’t have a focus on native plants. They had a pollinator garden but not a native plant garden. They had large ground covers of pachysandra, tall yew hedges, and other things that native plant snobs (me) don’t like. They did have a vegetable garden, which I appreciated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sculpture Garden favorite. Kingsbrae Gardens, St. Andrew\u2019s. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another Sculpture Garden favorite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another Sculpture Garden favorite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sam photographing me photographing him in the mirrored obelisk. Kingsbrae Gardens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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