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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"Thunder-clouds Rent The Air"

©  August '10   photo by smck
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Along The Abandoned Line

© August '10   photo by smck
Walking the St. Peter's Trail along The St. Peter's Bay there are these mysterious concrete ruins left almost intact.  Everyone thinks they are some part of the old railroad line - were they old coal bins, old fish bins, an old docking arrangement for boats unloading into the train - we'll never know maybe, or maybe some one will comment that his father knew that they were the ______________.
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Man's Best Friend

©  August '10   photo by smck
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Red Dragon Beach

©  August '10   photo by smck

At Point Michaud Beach the flying dragons were aloft, flying in plunging dives upon the helpless bathers there below.



© August '10   photo by smck
 The sandy beach and the calm waters of Point Michaud Beach - one of the few places that the cold North Atlantic warms to pleasant swimming waters - with life guards  
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The Old Mill Pond

© August '10   photo by smck

On the back gravel road from the East Side to L'Archeveque you pass this small pond that is gradually being filled in with the growth of water plants and fine but continuous sediments building on the bottom.  Long years past, a small dam - the road rides on the crest of it - labouriously built without machinery created the small pond with the diverted water used to turn a large mill stone.  I am not sure how many years the mill was in service but it was long gone when I lived here in the late '70s - all except for two large round milling stones that were nearly covered by soil accumulation.  The stones are now gone, being taken for some road entrance decoration somewhere I'm sure - but I wish they were still here giving further credence to the memory of the mill and the men and women who lived in this vigorous community of the late 1800's and early 1900's - a community that stretched for miles along the shore and inland to lakes and streams, hundred acre lots with house and barn and small hay fields and in each clustered grouping a church, a town meeting building, a small school building - and here and there a mill for flour or for sawing boards and lumber .  A hard life but free.
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