#newfoundlandcanada

[stochastique-blog]

Lol

Buildings can fit anywhere… when you are creative enough. — This building is in Salvage, Newfoundland where the coastline is rugged enough that many buildings require stilts. — Weirdly it makes me think of Delia Deetz’ sculptures in the movie Beetlejuice and how they came to life… maybe there’s a fantasy/horror/comedy movie in fishing stages crawling across the landscape? Maybe not. 🤔

[samhorine]

twillingate - may 2019

[mynewfangledlife]

[mentalillnesswho]

[earthtonedeaf]

I have not been to my favourite place in twenty years. I recounted twice — I don’t feel old enough to say twenty years ago, and it doesn’t feel that faraway, not when I can smell it.

Brackish, briny, rotten — a stench made sweet by nostalgia.

It doesn’t belong to just one place — fortunately. When the cold Atlantic wind carries that old familiar hum to me, my head tips back without a thought, letting my lungs fill to the brim,  and with my eyes closed, I can see

the ugly, bile-coloured bundles of Ascophyllum nodosum clinging to the round beach rocks in varying stages of decay,

brittle to slick.

Seaweed tangled with worthless ocean gems that still line my window sills

small, round, earthy snail shells rusty-coloured crab backs and claws faded indigo, pearlescent mussels bright green, stippled urchin eggs parched bodies of starfish soft, bleached twigs of drift wood and frayed gull feathers.

I remember pinching the swollen bulbs of wet rockweed branches  between my fingers until they burst  with a spray of salty dew and a timid, deflating “pissss.”

I remember hoisting the reeking kelp up with a stick, and flinging it back into the shallow cove.

I remember the way my grandfather pronounced it  with two syllables — kel-lup.

[foxyandthemoon]

"Majestic Fox" by Sam Gaby

https://keenfeed.myportfolio.com/majestic-fox

https://www.instagram.com/keen.feed/?hl=en

[explore-withme]

[frankchesley]

Blooming in fall

[jbeautybasics]

Watch "ROOM TOUR AS LIVE-IN CAREGIVER CANADA/Joyaooze" on YouTube

[notanewfie]

[ellyrox110]

I know they’re both set in Newfoundland, but I wasn’t expecting a reference right off the bat in episode one, nice!

[productofnfld]

Our Lady of the Snows church in Fogo, NL — This church was built in 1897 and was given a name that sounds perfect for blustery, wintery northeastern Newfoundland. The name, rather than solely being inspired by the place, was actually a reference to a church in Rome.

[celticprinces]

[mynewfangledlife]

Sun rise over signal hill, St.john's, Newfoundland, Canada 🇨🇦

[crimsonpages]

“Newfoundland including Labrador”, Hammond’s World Atlas – Classics Edition (1963)

[bossmom26]

I was just surviving...

I've been a mom for almost 5 years. Before that, I wanted more then anything to be a mom. For 8 years actually; countless treatments, diets, ect. But that's another story for another time. Everything I thought being a Mom was; wasn't. No one told me how tired I would be, how my patience would run low, how my days just ran all together, and no matter how hard I tried to plan the day, it never worked out. But I was finally a mom, so I should just shut my mouth. There is no way other Mom's feel this way right? That's where I went wrong, I never took any help, I never asked for any and I felt like I was a failure for feeling the way I did. Because society, doesn't want us talking about how we can't "Mom" today. That yes, my kid has screen time, yes she eats chocolate; goodness forbid anyone would know I was anything but the perfect Mom. Along with all of those feelings, I was drained, tired physically and mentally. I felt as if I were in my first trimester of pregnancy all over again, ALL - THE - DAMN - TIME! I was a Mom from the couch or the bed. I napped all the time, like 2-3 times a day. I felt I couldn't function if I didn't nap. I definitely took the title of Nap Queen! My blood was coffee and energy drinks and it's how I survived. I settled, and figured this is it. I just have to survive and get through this the best I can. I'm the only one like this, no one else could possibly feel this way - WRONG! Thankfully, I reconnected with an old high school friend. I learned she she was the same way but she changed! I thought there was no way there was a solution for all of this, and there is no way there are others feeling this way too. Forever grateful for Amanda, and how she shared her 3 steps with me. But I still wasn't convinced it could help me, I mean I felt hopeless. I'm happy I was wrong - so very, very wrong. Day 1 with the 3 steps changed me forever. I describe it as, there was no one home/present inside for a long time, but the lights are on and now I'm home - I'm home for my family for good. I have energy like I've never, ever had and my overall mental clarity and focus has increased. That feeling of hopeless, and a failure is gone, because now I know I'm not just surviving life any more.....