Joe Pye Weed - Eupatorium xxxxxxxx???

© Aug '11     smck

© Aug '11     smck

There are several varieties of Joe Pye and I am not certain which this is but until I stand corrected I would opt for the Spotted Joe Pye Weed, Eupatorium maculatum, as the purple stems are supposedly descriptive of the Spotted variety.

" - but stems deep purple or purple spotted ... wet thickets, meadows Canada and south . . ." re: Petterson/McKenny's A Field Guide to Wildflowers and certainly in lo-water this would be a wet thicket.

This photo was taken on the stretch of Grand River between Loch Lomond and Grand River Falls

St. Peter's Bay

© Aug '10     smck

How To Pronounce The Names of Various Scotch Whiskys

 This is a nice simple link that will give you a good Scottish pronunciation with an easy click!

http://scotchaddict.com/how-to-pronounce-scotch-whisky-names.html

It has a lot of interesting information and will lead you to the actual pronunciation link
(also listed below if you want to go straight to the horses mouth)

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jhb/whisky/pronounc.html

Far from the Madding Crowd

© Aug '10     smck

 For years I had thought that the novel was called 'Far From The Maddening Crowd'.  And found that many people like myself referred to it in that manner.  At any rate the mistake took hold in my mind and I was always trying to escape to sparsely populated rural areas that were far from the maddening crowd.  Thank my governing spirit that my erroneous thinking was corrected long after I had found Maine and then Cape Breton

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success. It originally appeared anonymously as a monthly serial in Cornhill Magazine, where it gained a wide readership.  re/Wikipedia

Shore Birds At The Mointeach

© Aug '10     smck

© Aug '10     smck