Nova Scotia is a very hospitable place with friendly people who love well-tended velvety-green lawns. Since it's surrounded by water, you may well imagine that water is everywhere – lakes, streams, rivers, ocean. The entire province is very green with colorful wildflowers. It was our pleasure to observe the reds and golds of autumn showing up in mid-September. Beautiful trees dot the province: Spruce, fir, white birch, maple, etc., as well as apple trees loaded with apples growing roadside, with apples squished on the road. Road signs and printed material are always given in both English and either French or Celtic (?). We didn't encounter much traffic on most roads and signs are easy to follow. Paved roads are marginal, and some are terrible, but the speed limits are lower, which saves on gas and gives people (like us) more time to gawk. It is not flat, except perhaps at oceanfront – everything else is tilted either UP or DOWN – which makes Nova Scotia ear-popping country. The wind blows constantly. If it had a national bird, my money would be on a CROW or a SEAGULL. Nova Scotia is expensive for Americans, but we enjoyed our visit.
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One of my favorite Canadian road signs.
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