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Ferry To Digby, Nova Scotia @1990
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| @ 1990 smck |
Countries Visiting Week Ending 27 Jan 2013
From most visiting to least
United States
Canada
Germany
France
Russia
Netherlands
China
United Kingdom
Romania
Ukraine
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Wasmunds Single Malt Whisky - Appalachian America
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| spiritedremix.blogspot.com |
Himself's Take
COLOUR
- Rich Gold
NOSE
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Remarkably fresh. Like Mountains in Appalachia.
BODY -
Silkily medium; firm legs, not quite oily
PALATE
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Gentle, clean, with a nutty-smoky sweetness
FINISH
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Lingering bite, Fruity overtures, Refreshing.
Score 78-82
Wasmund's™ Single Malt Whisky www.copperfox.biz/
Combines the best of the grand tradition of single malt whisky with creative and unique innovations for aging and flavoring that result in a special spirit that has no peer.At Copper Fox Distillery, we are the only distillery in North America to hand malt our own barley, and the only distillery on the planet to use apple and cherry wood smoke to flavor the malted barley. Our single batch copper potstill produces one barrel at a time and the spirit is non-chill filtered to preserve the complete flavor and essence of the barley grain.
Terroir
is the effect that a landscape has on the taste of a food product.
For instance, if a winery in France packed up and moved their
personnel, equipment, and grape seeds to California to reestablish
their enterprise in exactly the same way... their wine would taste
different. Maybe not much, but it would taste different. The
difference in soil composition, rainfall amounts, and even the
chemistry of the air would impart slight variables that would
ultimately change the character of the wine. Wasmund's whisky is
packed with terroir. Every single input ingredient in the process is
strictly local... and by "local", I mean within about a 50
mile radius, if I'm not mistaken. Even though it might sound crazy,
the taste of Wasmund's whisky transports me to the Appalachians in
the fall, and I suppose that's no surprise. Their whisky doesn't let
you forget where the product was made, and that's something exciting.
The 2009 International Review of Spirits commented that Wasmund's
"finishes with a very long, slowly evolving, mossy river stone,
peat, cocoa, cereal, and pepper fade." So in the end, the word
"earthy" manages to describe this products taste,
ingredients, and process.
The Midday Wade of Great Blue Heron by Jerimia Wadsworth Bullfrog
Listen my tadpoles and you shall share in
the midday quest of the Great Blue Heron
On the 18th of August in twenty-twelve
Hardly a frog is here to delve
That remembers that famous day they shun!
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A phantom bird , with each leg and wing
Across the pond like a ghosted thing,
And a great blue hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Across the pond like a ghosted thing,
And a great blue hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
with apologies to Longfellow
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The Summer Place In Winter
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| © Jan'13 Shamik |
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Fades The Light
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| © Aug '12 smck |
Fades the light;
And afar
Goeth day,
And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well;
Day has gone,
Night is on.
And afar
Goeth day,
And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well;
Day has gone,
Night is on.
4th verse of 'Taps'
In July 1862, after the Seven Days battles at Harrison's Landing (near
Richmond), Virginia, the wounded Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 1st
Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, General Daniel Butterfield
reworked, with his bugler Oliver Wilcox Norton, another bugle call,
"Scott Tattoo," to create Taps. He thought that the regular call for
Lights Out was too formal. Taps was adopted throughout the Army of the
Potomac and finally confirmed by orders. Soon other Union units began
using Taps, and even a few Confederate units began using it as well.
After the war, Taps became an official bugle call. Col. James A. Moss,
in his Officer's Manual first published in 1911, gives an account of the
initial use of Taps at a military funeral:
"During the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, a soldier of Tidball's Battery A of the 2nd Artillery was buried at a time when the battery occupied an advanced position concealed in the woods. It was unsafe to fire the customary three volleys over the grave, on account of the proximity of the enemy, and it occurred to Capt. Tidball that the sounding of Taps would be the most appropriate ceremony that could be substituted."
re: usmemorialday.org/taps.html
Why Didn't I Migrate?
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| © Jan '13 smck |
http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/birds/Great_Blue_Heron_migration.htm
Mist Covered Mountains (Bagpipe Melody)
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| © Aug '12 smck |
The melody of this popular Scottish waltz was based on the tune “Johnny Stays Long at the Fair.” John Cameron wrote the lyrics in 1856 and titled it “Ballachulish.” The melody was originally known as “Duil ri Baile Chaolais fhaicinn” (“Hoping to See Ballachulish”).
- well actually it is a slow march as most often played
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Canada Goose Group
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| © 18 Jan '13 smck |
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Hoodies - Laphódytes cucullátus (a hood)
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| 17 Jan '12 smck |
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| 17 Jan '12 smck |
The Hooded Merganser is our smallest merganser, measuring in at only 18”. The female is mostly brown with a white patch on her chin and wings. She is grayer on the neck than other mergansers. Overall, she is a light reddish-brown and has a frosted cinnamon crest with white tips.
Note: On 28 March 2013 I changed the title of this posting by removing the Latin 'MERGUS (diving) and replacing with Laphódytes. I have so far been unable to find an identifying phrase for Laphódytes. The latin word Mergus - root word for merganser - does mean 'diving' or 'plunging'.
New Camera - Comment Please
At the present I am looking for a new digital camera - one with good zoom ability - and I am not looking forward to what I think they call SLR but rather to a one piece that can do everything reasonably well. I am well aware that trade-offs in various performances will be part of my ultimate choice which at the moment are narrowed down to:
* Cannon PowerShot SX50
* Sony Cyber-Shot HX200V
* Nikon CoolPix P510
* Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200
If any of you are camera buffs I would really appreciate your comments.
* Cannon PowerShot SX50
* Sony Cyber-Shot HX200V
* Nikon CoolPix P510
* Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200
If any of you are camera buffs I would really appreciate your comments.
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