South Shore Scenery- Pine Grove Park, Milton, Queens County

Imagine walking through a beautiful park, where each June every route and pathway is filled with spectacular blooming rhododendrons, and azaleas and magnolias. A simple trail easy enough for most to navigate and quick enough to enjoy on your lunch break.  A perfect place for families or kids to explore and get back in touch with …

Chicken and Grape Salad

Do you remember your favourite meal as a child? That dinner that when your Mom put it in front of you, brought squeals of excitement. Believe it or not, for my youngest daughter that meal is a salad. More specifically a Chicken and Grape salad with her favourite poppy-seed dressing. Go figure? Kids asking for …

Let’s have a picnic! Graves Island Provincial Park- Chester, NS

It’s a tradition. Every July we have a family barbecue/picnic at Graves Island Provincial Park in Chester, to celebrate a couple July birthdays (mine and my youngest daughters) I think it may have started as a way for me to host a birthday party, without actually having to clean up the house….but it has turned into …