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.

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See How He Looks

© August @ '92     photo by smck

THAT’S ME

Idle moments while I replay
tapes of memory in my mind

clear rivulet wash on sand
bright flash of winging bird
eyes in love and supplication
quest in mine

ahh – early child almost a stranger
peering down the imagined
reaches of the future

                                                                                           See
                                                                                                         how
                                                                                                                     he
                                                                                                                                looks!



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sometimes when i dream too much of yore i see myself looking forward at me
© smck

I wrote this little poem long years ago - perhaps when this photo was taken - and meant it for myself, no photograph for reference, but then when I found this picture in our old box of family photos the poem seemed to leap up into my mind as the homage to my younger son - coming back from the beach above L'Archeveque and onto the grassy interval behind my friends fishing shack where we staying for a few precious weeks.   smck
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3 comments:

  1. Sue MacKayWednesday, 27 June, 2012

    Although that boy is now grown, the grassy interval looks very much the same.

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  2. NorvellHimselfWednesday, 27 June, 2012

    - but the old fellow who took the photo doesn't look the same,eh? I think the camp married Carol and all the kids to Cape Breton

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  3. Sue MacKayWednesday, 27 June, 2012

    It's true that Cape Breton pulls on your heart strings, begging you to return.

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