© photo by smck
Wild or tame pheasants - was hard to tell - even though some houses were down the road a bit these two were trucking along a wild meadow track.
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What's It All About, eh?
Cape Breton evokes deep memories and strong emotions for me as well as a deep appreciation for the beauty of my adopted island. My hopes are that you too might find the photos evocative - maybe a view you've not enjoyed before, or an 'Oh I've been there', or if from away that you may be encouraged to visit this fair isle so that you might come to love and breathe Cape Breton as I do. One word about place names that I use - some are completely local usage while others are from maps of Cape Breton that I've purchased over the years. I frequently post travel and other photos that are of interest to me - and hopefully you.
On the right hand side bar find my take on Single Malt whiskey - from how to best enjoy this noble drink to reviews (in a most non-professional manner) of ones that I have tried and liked - or not. Also musings, mine and others, on life in general.
Photographs are roughly 98%+ my own and copy-righted. For the occasional photo that is borrowed, credit is given where possible - recently I have started posting unusual net photographs that seem unique. Feel free to borrow any of my photos for non-commercial use, otherwise contact me. Starting late in 2013 I have tried to be consistent in identifying my photographs using ©smck on all out of camera photos I personally captured - (I often do minor computer changes such as 'crop' or 'shadow' etc but usually nothing major), and using ©norvellhimself on all photos that I have played around with in case it might not be obvious. Lately I have dropped the ©smck and have watermarked them with the blog name.
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On the right hand side bar find my take on Single Malt whiskey - from how to best enjoy this noble drink to reviews (in a most non-professional manner) of ones that I have tried and liked - or not. Also musings, mine and others, on life in general.
Photographs are roughly 98%+ my own and copy-righted. For the occasional photo that is borrowed, credit is given where possible - recently I have started posting unusual net photographs that seem unique. Feel free to borrow any of my photos for non-commercial use, otherwise contact me. Starting late in 2013 I have tried to be consistent in identifying my photographs using ©smck on all out of camera photos I personally captured - (I often do minor computer changes such as 'crop' or 'shadow' etc but usually nothing major), and using ©norvellhimself on all photos that I have played around with in case it might not be obvious. Lately I have dropped the ©smck and have watermarked them with the blog name.
COMMENTS are appreciated as feedback is the driving energy of blogging - And if you like this site please pass it along to a friend. Thanks!
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Pheasants
Adrift in Time and Space
Water Lilly - Below Loch Lomond
© August '11 photo by smck |
(looked for a good water lily poem but they were too few and too over-burdened with 'meaning' so if I let my sub-conscious work on it I might put a bit of doggerel up later)
The Breakers
© September '08 photo by smck |
Da-Neils-Bridge
© July '10 photo by smck |
© July '10 photo by smck |
© July '10 photo by smck |
So Various, So Beautiful, So New,
© August '09 photo by ctmck |
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
- and not to leave on a 'downer' I will add that as true as Mathew arnold's last verse is, I feel it is our duty to spread the beauty, the various, the new, to share in harmony and do our best to prevent those ignorant armies that clash by night. Amen!
The Fish Ladder
© August '09 photo by smck |
The Days of August
Mr. and Mrs. Duck
Where There Is Smoke ...
© August '11 photo by smck |
As we walked back up the beach to where we had parked at the Mointeach we could see smoke drifting in the haze of the overcast day and another truck by our own. Someone was having a cook-out for sure. My guess was lobster and beer - but whatever, it was another warm glow to our day
Sunset Fire
Where did I park my car
Bunnahabhainn (pronounced boo-na-hav'n,
© September '11 photo by smck |
I get a great chance to mention both Grand River and scotch whisky in the same posting - for here is a nice scene at the 'mouth of the river'. One of my favorite single malts is Bunnahabhain made on the Isle of Islay where the name of the village comes from the Scottish Gaelic name Bun na h-Abhainn, meaning Foot of the River. (some sources say 'the mouth of the river'). In any event both the whisky and the location above are favorites of mine.
- and soon to come in the whisky reviews will be - Bunnahabhain!
Whirly Birds
© May '12 photo by smck |
© May '12 photo by smck |
The top photo added later - different location but still in Maryland.
Granville Green
© July '09 photo by smck |
© July '09 photo by smck |
Black-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker
© August '09 photo by smck |
© August '09 photo by smck |
IN PORT
© August 10 photo by smck |
© August 10 photo by smck |
IN PORT
Out of the fires of the sunset come we again to our own–
We have girdled the world in our sailing under many an orient star;
Still to our battered canvas the scents of the spice gales cling,
And our hearts are swelling within us as we cross the harbor bar.
We have girdled the world in our sailing under many an orient star;
Still to our battered canvas the scents of the spice gales cling,
And our hearts are swelling within us as we cross the harbor bar.
Beyond are the dusky hills where the twilight hangs in the pine trees,
Below are the lights of home where are watching the tender eyes
We have dreamed of on fretted seas in the hours of long night-watches,
Ever a beacon to us as we looked to the stranger skies.
Below are the lights of home where are watching the tender eyes
We have dreamed of on fretted seas in the hours of long night-watches,
Ever a beacon to us as we looked to the stranger skies.
Hark! how the wind comes out of the haven's arms to greet us,
Bringing with it the song that is sung on the ancient shore!
Shipmates, furl we our sails–we have left the seas behind us,
Gladly finding at last our homes and our loves once more.
Bringing with it the song that is sung on the ancient shore!
Shipmates, furl we our sails–we have left the seas behind us,
Gladly finding at last our homes and our loves once more.
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
I have no idea where the sailboat was hailing from - it might have just been out for a days sailing enjoyment and returning home at dusk but then again it might have been on a much longer cruise 'on fretted seas in the hours of long night-watches - however it was fun for me to include L.M. Montgomery, Prince Edward Island writer of Green Gables fame. (this is the same boat, "Salty", that was posted in Homing in to the Canal 28 April '12)
Country Lane
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