Annapolis Royal,, Nova Scotia, is a lovely town but we got there so late, because we chatted with the Langlais family too long, so we resolved to return later. We only had time for one stop.

This was the amazing Annapolis Royal Historic Garden.  This is one of my favorite gardens in Canada and we stop here every time we are in the area. I love garden, but hate gardening.  I guess that means I am either very lazy, or morally corrupt, or both.

The flowers, particularly the roses, were lovely, even though it was late September. Life is good, in a garden. As long as you don’t have to work in it.

The beautiful gardens are found on a lovely setting overlooking a tidal river valley.  The gardens proudly showcase hundreds of rose cultivars and thousands of fragrant and beautiful blossoms.  I managed to catch a pollinator leaving a flower in a photograph. I always like to photograph the pollinators, but rarely catch them in flight. This was a rare and unexpected treat.

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world” – Leo Buscaglia 

I even photographed a fallen leaf on a green grass. I liked how the image showed the recently fallen and not so recently fallen in a mirror image.

A beautiful garden in autumn. Life doesn’t get much better than that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said “The world laughs in Flowers.”  He as a wise man.

On the way home I stopped to photograph some trees starting to show the autumn colours. I love autumn. What’s not to like about it?

Albert Camus was another wise man. He said, “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”