{"id":155,"date":"2010-05-28T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-06-23T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:05:41","slug":"welcome-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/155\/welcome-nova-scotia","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Nova Scotia.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very windy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surrounded by the ocean and rocky cliffs.\u00a0 I love it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1566.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1860\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1566-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to Nova Scotia Sign\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1566-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1566-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1566.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today was mostly a driving day (side-note: I drove 700-miles before I saw my first cop) and the weather wasn&#8217;t particularly great either.\u00a0 While the conditions took the beauty out of most of what my camera could capture today, it has been one heck of a gorgeous tour so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1685.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1862\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1685-445x670.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Fence; Nova Scotia\" width=\"445\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1685-445x670.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1685-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1685.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crashing in the northern part of Nova tonight and then traveling along the coast down to Halifax tomorrow.\u00a0 Was planning to be up for sunrise, but that is at 4am EST and I might need more than four hours of sleep.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1861\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1673.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1861\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1861\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1673-444x670.jpg\" alt=\"Field at Sunset; Nova Scotia\" width=\"444\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1673-444x670.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1673-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1673.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I sat on a thorn bush while taking this shot<\/p><\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1848.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1864\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1848-445x670.jpg\" alt=\"World's Largest Violin; Nova Scotia\" width=\"445\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1848-445x670.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1848-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1848.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My homework assignment when I get a chance: Research the waste disposal practices of Nova Scotia. I don&#8217;t know what is happening here, but 50% of the driveways I pass are stacked with trash.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not talking bags of your normal disposable items&#8211;I&#8217;m talking like stoves, mattresses, oil furnaces (the most-common), and just about any other major appliance you would find in a kitchen or a basement.\u00a0 Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8211;this place is very clean.\u00a0 In New England, &#8216;adopt-a-highway&#8217; means a crew of a dozen people pick up a good 50 bags of trash along a couple-mile stretch of highway.\u00a0 In New Brunswick\/Nova Scotia, it was one man walking down the highway with no trash bag, picking up the rare items of trash by hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1863\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1819.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1863\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1863\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1819-640x425.jpg\" alt=\"Garbage Pile in Nova Scotia\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1819-640x425.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1819-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/pictures\/2010\/05\/20100528-_DSC1819.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And to think how pissed Waste Management gets in NE when you don&#39;t sort your plastics...<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Nova Scotia.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very windy.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surrounded by the ocean and rocky cliffs.\u00a0 I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[1342,1458,1343,176],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-photojournalism","tag-canada","tag-landscapes","tag-nova-scotia","tag-signs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}