civilized ku # 2520-21 ~ Fisherman's Monument at Peggy's Cove

Trap lines ~ Peggy's Cove - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenFisherman's monument ~ Peggy's Cove - Nova Scotia, Canada • click to embiggenEven though Peggy's Cove is a top tourist destination in Nova Scotia, the only reason we went there was to see the Fisherman's Monument ...

William Edward deGarthe was a painter and sculptor and his artistic work was devoted to maritime subjects after his move to Peggy’s Cove. His “Fisherman’s Monument” was sculpted out of a 100 foot granite face of rock below his home. It depicts thirty-two fishermen and their wives and children enveloped in the wings of a guardian angel. The sculpture and his home (now a museum to his work) were donated to the province of Nova Scotia after his death. It is a beautiful piece of art meant to honor both the living and those lost at sea.

IMO, as it turned out, the little village of Peggy's Cove itself is well worth a visit although we visited off-season and had the place to ourselves. In season it must be wall-to-wall tourists. During our visit the fog made the place especially picturesque (IMO).

Update on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 11:46AM by gravitas et nugalis

Featured Comment: Cindy Raine wrote (in an email): "Your latest Peggy's Cove picture, the colored ropes, it looks to me like a perfect diorama, as if at any moment across its open decks and seas a mouse could suddenly scurry, B-movie huge and perching on houses with ease, sweeping the trees with the wake of its tail."

my response: nice.