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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Osprey At The Shore

I luckily took several shots as he perched seemingly uncaring in the tree

- then he evidently either tired of my prying into his business or decided to check out the elsewhere place

So off he flew

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Roadside Pool

photo cropped from below to show the buds about to open


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Looking Toward Hances Point


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Checking Out The Queen




Note the bare hands - the bees, Italian bees, are so gentle that she has decided that the easier working with the frames is easier without gloves (and Photographer me didn't even bother to Veil up)
Carol is checking two things on this opening of the hive - searching for the Queen and seeing how the second tier is filling up - we still have yet to spot the queen but the second tier if filling nicely, and more quickly than we had anticipated, ample evidence that we have a great queen doing her job.
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Working ON Winter 2014/15

freshly split wood at the right - this is only semi-split - I split it this far for easy handling and easy seasoning and get back to it later to do the final splitting before I pile it under the roof of the rick.





Neighbor had two large oak trees cut down and were happy to have me come in and  cut them up and clear them out - this is the smaller of the two - about a cord or so including the fresh wood at the back of the wood rick - got started on the second larger tree and after doing the limbs and then cutting the length in chunks, almost through to the ground but not quite, I suddenly found that my Stihl was either running underpowered or the chain had some mysterious illness so have to solve that and get back to the tough job of cutting the final several inches without running the chain into the ground or binding the saw - then the splitting with a maul so that I can load and haul the wood home.
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