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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Small Hawk That Hangs Around The Wood

20 May 2013

Reading Books




I was browsing my own blog and noticed that my listing of books that I have read is about a year or more out of date - I read voraciously, many 'light' novels, some supposedly more serious or thought provoking than others, and lots of non-fiction from history to the physical world and how we think about it with popular books on mathematics being my favorite 'real reading' relaxation.  So I might delete the present listing and start posting current reading with my review - or take - on same.  No doubt it will be as sporadic as my reviews of good Scotch whisky.  The Scotch review are slow to appear because I do not drink a lot, just the occasional finger or two, a few times a week.  While the book reviews will be slow because even though I read more books than I drink my occasional tot of the peaty malt I find it more time consuming to put 'pen to paper' on my feelings about the good read.  






Corporate Coelacanth







Corporate Coelacanth



Who works there?
- in boredom all enthralled
Ah! The Man With Electronic Hoe,
eats white bread, 
             watches plasma tv, 
                                 glides on petroleum wings,
but the stupor of the mind still imbues within.
For Serfs we were and Serfs we are 
 and Freeman seldom found.
                (Save off the coast of Africa where one – long thought extinct -
was hauled, screaming, up from the debts)


 © smck




Elijah

17 May 2013