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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.

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Run Off - II





The top photo shows the run-off from the right still flowing clear on the somewhat flat woodland floor but tumbling off to the left over my small cart road and into the long-ago eroded channel that is normally a 'dry-creek-bed' - with the middle photograph being a closer view.  The last photo shows the water now more confined and turbulent, churning and loading with suspended clay particles on its way to where I posted earlier as "Confluence". 












Black Hill, on a large peninsula jutting into the Chesapeake Bay empties most of it's run-off to the east and the Elk River tributary to the bay but some takes the westward course and empties directly into the bay (although locally by old custom this part of the bay is often called the Northeast River).  The flux of water shown above will eventually empty into Piney Creek, then the Elk River on its way to the bay and then on to the ocean where sometime in the future it will again be evaporated into rain clouds that will rain out somewhere now unknown to start another journey in this endless cycle of nature.

Wary Bird

02 July 2013

As I walked ever so slowly along the road side river bank I knew I had to shoot when he was visible not when the greatest view would open for he would fly away in a single heart-beat - and my camera's idea of 'burst shooting' would still be adjusting when Mr. Blue was long gone.  So I grabbed this shot  and then when my open view came he was gone, great wings lifting him away.  But all-in-all this turned out reasonable I think.

Run-off












Water flowing, clearly, through the more level areas of the wood eventually running into the dry-creek bed which has slowly over many years eroded away to the clay sub-till.

Confluence

 The clear rivulet run-off from our spring is overwhelmed by the muddied run-off of the drenching rains today at Black Hill.  Normally the small creek bed is dry or nearly so but when torrential rains fall over Black Hill and surrounding area great amounts of the water eventually reach this dry-bed and fills it to overflowing carrying a substantial amount of eroded clay.
30 June 2013