Здравствуйте Россия - Hello Russia

Я замечаю, что мой блог имеет некоторых регулярных зрителей из России - так (любезность, 'translation2.paralink.com) я хотел бы дать Вам теплое и благодарный здравствуйте и спасибо за продолжающееся рассматривание, искренне Непосредственно!

For those, who, like me, cannot read Russian the following is what I originally wrote:
I notice that my blog has some regular viewers from Russia - so (courtesy of 'translation2.paralink.com) I would like to give you a warm and appreciative hello and thanks for the continued viewing, sincerely Himself!

Driving to Gros Morne National Park, NFL

© Jul '12    photo by smck

© Jul '12    photo by smck

an excerpt from Wikipedia

Gros Morne is a member of the Long Range Mountains, an outlying range of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching the length of the island's west coast. It is the eroded remnants of a mountain range formed 1.2 billion years ago. "The park provides a rare example of the process of continental drift, where deep ocean crust and the rocks of the earth's mantle lie exposed."

Dragonfly

© Aug '12    photo by smck

 The following comment is from - http://www.dragonfly-site.com/

One of Nature’s most intriguing and fascinating insects, and the subject of mankind’s most sublime and ridiculous myths and mythologies, the dragonfly darts around going about its business as usual, blissfully unaware and oblivious to the interest it has generated in us. And perhaps thankfully for us because if the dragonfly were to understand that we have called it the “Devils darning needle” and “gwas-y-neidr” or the Adder’s Servant, it could laugh long and hard at us…and considering the dragonfly has been around for over 300 million years, it could be a really, really long laugh. 

The primary fascination that humans have had with dragonflies is because:

• Of its ability to seek out pure water
• Of its ability to Reflect multiple colors with changing angles of light
• Of its awe inspiring flight and speed
• Of its ability to almost single handedly control insect populations
• Of its ability to adapt to change with indescribable ease
• Of the way it lives out its adult life, living each moment to the fullest.

Shades of Blue and Green, NFL

© Jul '12    photo by smck

I believe this is at one of the higher points in Port aux Port, Newfoundland, starting the return clockwise loop at about (direction -wise) 2 O'clock looking down the mountainside and across Gulf St. Lawrence toward Quebec - with the true size of the gulf obscured by the angle of the shot.  A friend of mine commented when he saw this picture, "what a spot for my harvester". 

Many A Lobster Dinner

© Aug '12     photo by smck

Just a small stack of lobster traps among the large amount at L'Archeveque Harbour at the end of the season - but many a lobster has been brought ashore from these inefficient devices*.

* The wooden traps shown above has been around in basically the same design since the early 1800s with minor changes in net material and weighting (to force it to sink).  But studies have shown that a majority of the lobsters that enter seeking the bait do escape.  However the last several years in particular have seen good lobster landings at the dock.