CapeBreton-NorvellHimself-SingleMalt: July 2017

Sun On Marsh - near Colum's last home

The Moon Last Night - Sunday 30 July

The American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) is one of three species of tree squirrel currently classified in the genus Tamiasciurus, known as the pine squirrels (the others are the Douglas squirrel, T. douglasii, and Mearns's squirrel, T. mearnsi). American red squirrels are also referred to as pine squirrels, North American red squirrels, boomers,^[3] and chickarees. They are medium-sized (200–250 g) diurnal mammals that defend a year-round exclusive territory. The diet of these tree squirrels is specialized on the seeds of conifer cones. As such, they are widely distributed across North America wherever conifers are common, except on the Pacific coast, where they are replaced by Douglas squirrels. Recently, American red squirrels have been expanding their range to include primarily hardwood areas.^[4]

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_red_squirrel}

Dead White Pine

several of the white pines that I planted a few years ago have succumbed to a disease that I suspect to be because of nearby gooseberry bushes - White Pine Blister Rust

First Pile - of about 12

a good gremlin not only turned the water on while his wife cleaned the house from top to bottom but he also did a (great) rough mow with his blueberry flail (actual name later) so that the two to three foot high grass was just awaiting my rake - saved me at least two days with the hand mower

THANKS

Lovely Clear Water

The River Is Low - this is the northern end of the 'Old River Road' back in the day when most of the travel was by foot or horse drawn vehicle - in the winter when snow had made climbing the hills quite arduous

Crib Pool - looking north - 'landscape view'

The Crib Pool - looking up river

The Open Highway - New Brunswick

Sea Side Church

Sleep Tight Tonight - my thoughts as I came home

Rainbow's End

The GRFs Summer Flower Bed

We'll Leave The Light On For You

coming in to a cozy lighted room after two harrowing days on the road - great friends indeed

house cozy, clean and water on

THANKS

Dark Cloudy Evening with lighted opening in the far west

- And Coming Out of The Cove To The Left - (I think it is a fast sail leading the pack)

Sailboat Race - next three

Sailboat Race - up close (from the left to the right)

Sailboat Race on the Bras D'Or Lake - near St. Peters, Nova Scotia

Duty Free on the left - Big Red ('97 F150) on the right

My Old 'Ninety Seven' F150 - parked after gassing up for the crossing and also near the Duty Free

St Croix River

Looking Across The St Croix River Toward St. Stephens, Canada

this photo taken from a small walking park that adjoins the old border crossing

American Eagle

this American Eagle was diving on a flock of (Canadian?) Sea Gulls at the St. Croix River at the border crossing from Calais, Maine to St Stephens, Canada - I took a half dozen or so photos but this one turned out fair

After The Shade Upgrade

the two spring hives are in full swing at mid summer and these two 'landing' photographs show two healthy hives with loads of bees coming and going BUT not 'bearding' the outside of the hive to escape the over heated air within - the shades worked great!!!

Slug Patrol

no photographs with this post (yet) but for this little off-beat post I am just commenting on doing the 'Slug Patrol' - i.e. this is the time of year that slugs - "common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc" - a common night crawler, are becoming prolific and one can scarcely walk onto the porch at night without squashing one or more. So with a square of paste-board and an ash shovel from the winter I did a quick patrol of the porch support walls and collected perhaps 30 odd slugs or so ranging in size from less than an inch long to one great seven inch long by a girth of perhaps close to three inches - imagine stepping on that in the dark in one's bare feet, uggg - which I then trans-located several hundreds of feet deep into the wood - we should be porch free of slugs for a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug