The Island

Have you ever been to the edge of the earth....

....where the open sky and great quiet meet....

....a place of great wonder and deep mystery....

....of overwhelming feelings against the unknown?

I went to Prince Edward Island last week--what an amazing experience!  The Island is, simply put, a beautiful place.  Being before the tourist season, which is between July and August, my cousin Kirsten and I enjoyed the entire Island to ourselves.  The above pictures are just a taste of what we saw, experienced, and felt.

We flew into Charlottetown on Wednesday, picked up a rental car, and for the remainder of our five days drove everywhere that we could!  The Island is small and easily navigable, so the driving was no cruel feat.

Only, now all my dreams at night lately have been of maps and driving.  Phew!

But what a gorgeous place.  It has cliffs on all sides of it, red colored from the red sandstone that the Island is made of.  Some of the beaches were white, as you can see from some of the pictures, and some of them were as red as the cliffs.  Basin Head, by far my favorite beach, had the combination of white sand and red cliffs, which is very picturesque when coupled with dark pines!

You also see that I found sheep.  They are the only sheep that I saw, and I insisted that we stop for me to take a picture.  I also purchased some delicious looking one-ply Briggs & Little, my souvenir that I am extremely excited to knit up into something interesting!

There were many "new things" that I learned from this vacation to the Island.  I'll share them over time, and spread out the wonderfulness of the beautiful world.

So I will leave you with a quote by the famed author of the land, L.M. Montgomery:

"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which

anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens

but just those that bring simple little pleasures,

following on another softly, like pearls

slipping off a string."