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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Back In Stile - a comment

this blog is powered by blogger.com which can be a P.I.T.A. (my own personal acronym that avoids scatological words) at times - as in the below post of the same name which I am unable to comment on after I uploaded the photo.  And as you can tell from other posts I have often commented on same without to much difficulty - but to comment now in this second blog, to wit:

This stile was the first that I have seen in the U.S. (which doesn't mean there are none - but I'm an old dude and this is a first for me).  After I photographed the Holstein cows with their new-born calves I drove about an 1/8th mile and there it was giving access to the field over the electric fence.  Always before it was to me some bit of out-moded ancient farm utensil and now here it is still in use.

Back In Stile

©smck       27 September 2013

Chants and Cantor





At a lonely monastery on a small off-shore island of Australia the monks honored the breaking day every morning by gathering in the great hall where the head monk would stand before them and chant
Good mo-or-ning
and the monks would in turn chant
Good mo-or-ning
Then in the dusk of the evening they would again gather and the head monk would chant
Good ev-en-ing
and so too the monks in turn would chant
Good ev-en-ing
On one morning when a newly arrived monk from around the world arrived and joined in the morning chant,  evidently jet-lag affected him for he inadvertently chanted “Good ev-en-ing” in return.   The head monk without pause cantorially chanted
Some one chant-ed ev-en-ing”
to the well known tune from the musical “South Pacific”.