Our mantra about moving to Bear River reads something like this:
We love living here and we feel thankful each and every day to have had landed here…except for one important aspect.
Our adult kids live thousands of miles away and inspite of Skype and email and the telephone, we miss spending ordinary (but really extraordinary) time with them. You know what I mean. It is lovely to just sit in the same room together and talk about politics, the cat, working life, twitter vs facebook, American vs. Canadian belief systems, Battlestar Galactica, Naomi Klein, childhood memories, house renovations, artists, musicians and more.
Explanations are so much easier face-to-face
But it’s also nice to walk through a room and see Emily sketching the cat or Jesse strumming his guitar–both of them expressing their creativity. What a pleasure for a parent to see.
They have surprised us with a trip to Bear River and we’ve been having a great catching-up time with them. It is so nice to swap stories and it’s wonderful to cook for them AND to be able to sit down together and share a meal with them! Their lives are so fast paced and busy that they mostly eat take-out food, restaurant food so it’s a great opportunity for me to spoil them with home cooking.
Homemade bread and lasagna.
This visit coincides with my 58th birthday, with our daughter’s birthday and with Mother’s Day too! It’s quite amazing for me to share my birthday with them both. Last year’s birthday was pretty special too as we were gallery hopping with our daughter and son-in-law in Los Angeles on my birthday and I saw some amazing work by Matisse as well as German Expressionist painters too. We even got to see a bubbling tar pit in action.
This birthday we drove a short distance from Digby to Point Prim, a beautiful spot that we never tire of visiting and that we wanted so much to share with the kids.
Tidal pools form in the basins left behind by cooling lava.
Except for a couple of sites in Nova Scotia, like Peggy’s Cove, there are many, many beautiful, geological and geographical sites to see in this province that are not really promoted or known about except to the locals. Point Prim is one of those spots.
Our daughter took most of the photos in this post.
The geological formations are so varied and so interesting and tell an ancient tale about molten lava forming millions of years ago.
The body of water is part of the Bay of Fundy and the wind was still quite cold for a warm day in May. The water was a deep blue and it felt exhilarating to be there.
Just us and the ocean waves.
We stayed for an hour and only saw one other couple as we were leaving so we really had the whole ocean to ourselves. It’s hard to describe how wonderful it was to spend time together, on my birthday, in this magical place, with the people who mean the most to me in the world.
The textures in the rock formations make interesting patterns.
I watched our offspring climb over these rocks that will still be here in another million years. I thought about how fortunate we are to be right here, right now. If you are coming to Nova Scotia, anyone in Digby can tell you where Point Prim is.
Lunch in Digby.
The rocks are eternal and so is the interconnectedness and the love that so many parents and children and siblings share. What a perfect birthday!
