{"id":1041,"date":"2011-02-23T19:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T23:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2011-09-16T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:33:45","slug":"an-impressionists-view-of-winter-in-martins-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/an-impressionists-view-of-winter-in-martins-point\/","title":{"rendered":"An impressionist&#8217;s view of winter in Martins Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late  February: the best part of winter. The sun is shining straight through my office  window in the semi-basement. How pleasant. Meanwhile, outside, all is white,  hard and frozen. Last weekend, a couple of anglers walked about three hundred  meters over the frozen sea in front of our house, carrying two chairs, a pack of  beer and their fishing rods. They sat there motionless for hours, looking at the  hole in the ice they had made for fishing, while drinking beer and having a good  chat, I bet. 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