CapeBreton-NorvellHimself-SingleMalt: January 2020

Rip Rap - lines the shore in this man made cove

this used to be a pasture and/or corn field, depending on whim from year to year, and then sometime in the late 1940s just after 'The War' (WWar II) a huge dredging ship worked night and day for several years converting a quiet bit of field and shrub to a large deep water cove that all the people in North East called the Dredge-Hole - barges were towed toward the bay and places afar carrying untold tons of gravel to the post war boom in building.

Now it is an access cove to the river at large, with it's restaurant and marina and homes galore and night and day the power boats entertain those homes with un-mufflered noise that somehow boaters and cyclists need to confirm their existence

Floaters - a little rough on power boats

Seagulls and Boats

Mr. Calvin Watterson

Patterns

Honkers

Glow

St. Mary Annes Episcopal Church As Night Comes On

Start of The Process To Fell The Remaining Basic Trunk

Jerry Loafing About (just kidding Jerry)

Actually it is a true act of bravery with good knowledge of tree work, and having great judgement and skills in the trade that enable him to be working in this dead rotting tree.

Cecil Tree Service- work trucks, though no 'boom-truck' this time as tree to be felled is in a too awkward position to use the boom

Large Dead Oak - close up showing Jerry placing another rope to guide the cut pieces to the ground

This Large Dead Oak Is Being Prepared For Take Down

I had Cecil Tree Service down last July and should have had this tree taken down then for it was clearly dying. But I had no idea that it would start to decay quite so quickly, with small upper branches falling almost daily and the bark was flaking onto the ground - a scary tree both for our house toward which the bulk of the tree was leaning and for Jerry (Cox) in particular - up the tree - and his crew in general - on the ground. Great job as usual and no incidents from this scary hulk of a tree, due mainly to Jerry's methodical planning of what to cut first etc to prevent both structural damage to my house and damage to himself and crew. Big thumbs up for a great job.

Female Cardinal

Sky, Water, Rays

Working on The New Library

Tuffed Titmouse, Parus bicolor

Beams

Visitors - 20 Jan '20 through today the 27th

Visitors - 20 Jan '20 through today the 27th

Bangladesh

Belgium

Canada

France

Germany

Italy

Japan

Mexico

Peru

Poland

Singapore

Thailand

Turkey

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United States

Unknown Region

[it is possible that other countries visited but I can only check the top ten of the day or of the week]

also the mighty google blog controls I am using will not allow me to update the print colours - or rather I can change them but when I command to update it just closes and goes to the blog as if I never changed the command - I think that they are just not supporting the blog at all anymore just using whatever they threw together years back - so I will do a copy and paste to Microsoft Word and then come back and do the entire post from Microsoft - screw google

Is That You Donald?

Even Closer - notice the Selkie

Close Up (of previous post)

High Tide, Run-off, and Humidity High

The Humidity is 100 Percent

Oaxaca - this caught my eye in Food Lion as my son is visiting Oaxaca, Mexico

couldn't wait to taste - put it on a toasted bagel and it was good, but good not great so I think I should have used less and made it a spread - like savoring single malt whisky, not to big a sip and taking time to savor flavours before finishing

好雨知时节 - hǎo yǔ zhī shí jié - Good rain know season - from The Selected Poems of Du Fu

River

Rainy Morning - II

It Is A Rainy Morning

Duck Walk - III

Duck Walk - II

Duck Walk - and keeping to the right up the street they go

Like A Gull(s) On Ice

Quiet

Ladder-Backed

Blue Jay - through window glass (sometimes it works great others it looks like this)

(It was a Chelsea afternoon and the low sun lights up the festive candle hanger)

Ladder-Backed Woodpecker - Centurus

there are a number of Ladder-backed woodpeckers of which this is the Red-Bellied Woodpecker (not what I would have named it though) Centurus Carolinus, the only one of the group in our neck of the woods up here in Maryland - the red, head markings are a bit ambiguous as to the sex, for a full red cap is male, and a red back of head/neck is female, while this bird has a few bits of coloration, but my guess is female (gifted birders may give me a educational comment on this I hope)