Old farmhouse, Minudie, Nova Scotia
Taken back in 1997, Google Earth now shows this abandoned house as nothing but a heap of debris, having collapsed sometime before 2017. Their most recent "street View" images show the field full of round hay bales. On my last visit to Nova Scotia (before Covid), there was a grove of Elm Trees about 400 yards off the right side of the image... the tallest one containing an eagle's nest that was reoccupied for years each nesting season. On one visit I picked up a nice collection of eagle feathers in the tall grass below the nest and was going to bring them home. They were confiscated by a US Customs inspector at the border crossing in Calais, Maine, who said that I should have known better than to try to bring prohibited animal material into the country. I figured that if an eagle sheds a feather... the bird has "given it up" and it was free for the taking. The inspector got cranky when I asked... if an eagle had defecated on me while I was under the tree... would I have had my jacket confiscated if not cleaned before stopping at customs??
The old hay rake is probably gone now, maybe enjoying a second life as a country lawn decoration.
This image was copied from a Kodachrome 25 slide using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor, fitted with a Nikon 4T close-up lens, a 1.6x Sigma achromatic close-up lens on the 4T. Exposure was 1 second at f/11, ISO set at 100. The light source was a 13.5 watt LED bulb (5000K).
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Old farmhouse, Minudie, Nova Scotia
Taken back in 1997, Google Earth now shows this abandoned house as nothing but a heap of debris, having collapsed sometime before 2017. Their most recent "street View" images show the field full of round hay bales. On my last visit to Nova Scotia (before Covid), there was a grove of Elm Trees about 400 yards off the right side of the image... the tallest one containing an eagle's nest that was reoccupied for years each nesting season. On one visit I picked up a nice collection of eagle feathers in the tall grass below the nest and was going to bring them home. They were confiscated by a US Customs inspector at the border crossing in Calais, Maine, who said that I should have known better than to try to bring prohibited animal material into the country. I figured that if an eagle sheds a feather... the bird has "given it up" and it was free for the taking. The inspector got cranky when I asked... if an eagle had defecated on me while I was under the tree... would I have had my jacket confiscated if not cleaned before stopping at customs??
The old hay rake is probably gone now, maybe enjoying a second life as a country lawn decoration.
This image was copied from a Kodachrome 25 slide using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor, fitted with a Nikon 4T close-up lens, a 1.6x Sigma achromatic close-up lens on the 4T. Exposure was 1 second at f/11, ISO set at 100. The light source was a 13.5 watt LED bulb (5000K).
GSC-0101L-Fr2A