Life

©calum       August 2013

that strange tenacity of life to exist and replicate

taken along the shore as shown in Mary Annes Cove below

Mary Anne's Cove

©Calum      August 2013

Photograph by my son 

       

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”.