The Summer Place In Winter

© Jan'13       Shamik

A nice friend that lives just up the road came by to take a photo in winter, with the snow, from near the same location that I had stood to snap the "Can't Wait To Take A photo Of This Again" posted on 21 Jan '13.  My wife and I were excited to once again feel that magic of Grand River Falls in Cape Breton, and that old time milieu of country and neighbors that know and care for one another, and air that fills your lungs with purity,

Going To School

© Mar '12      smck

Fades The Light

© Aug '12     smck

Fades the light;
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?

© Jan '13      smck

 

http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/birds/Great_Blue_Heron_migration.htm

Mist Covered Mountains (Bagpipe Melody)

© Aug '12     smck

. Mist Covered Mountains of Home
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