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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Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias


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October Colour


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The Eagles Nest - in demise






 


I haven't seen the eagles nest since early summer - and was quite surprised to see it in disarray as raptors usually keep their nest from year to year, adding to it and keeping it intact - have no idea whether it was simply wind or possibly vandalism.  If you wish, compare this with 07 May '15 posting entitled 'Baby is Growing'.
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Surface Tension

Surface tension is the elastic tendency of liquids which makes them acquire the least surface area possible. Surface tension is an important property that markedly influences many ecosystems. Surface tension is responsible, for example, when an object or insect (e.g. water striders) that is denser than water is able to float or run along the water surface.
At liquid-air interfaces, surface tension results from the greater attraction of water molecules to each other (due to cohesion) than to the molecules in the air (due to adhesion). The net effect is an inward force at its surface that causes water to behave as if its surface were covered with a stretched elastic membrane. Because of the relatively high attraction of water molecules for each other, water has a high surface tension (72.8 millinewtons per meter at 20 °C) compared to that of most other liquids. Surface tension is an important factor in the phenomenon of capillarity.
Surface tension has the dimension of force per unit length, or of energy per unit area. The two are equivalent—but when referring to energy per unit of area, people use the term surface energy—which is a more general term in the sense that it applies also to solids and not just liquids.
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Visitors

 As of today the following countries have visited this blog
- listed in order of most visiting to least visiting -
other countries have also visited but the statistics available to me show only the top ten countries - the past week is probably quite accurate and complete but more than likely in the past month there have been a few visiting countries that don't make the 'top ten' cut and over the lifetime of this blog - a little over 3 years - there are at least another dozen countries or so that have stopped by  - mainly in South America and in Asia.  I have included the listing from 25 June '15 to compare to today:

10 October 2015

ALL TIME
PAST MONTH
PAST WEEK



United States
United States
United States
Canada
Canada
Germany
Russia
Germany
Portugal
Germany
Ukraine
Portugal
France
France
Canada 
France
Sweden
Ukraine
Malaysia
Turkey
Austria
Poland
India
Costa Rica
United Kingdom
Ukraine
Denmark
Portugal
Spain
Spain
India


25 June 2015
ALL TIME
PAST MONTH
PAST WEEK



United States
United States
United States
Russia
Germany
Russia
Canada
Russia
Germany
Germany
Ukraine
Portugal
Greece
Ukraine
South Korea
France
Canada
France
Malaysia
Ukraine
Canada
Poland
France
Poland
United Kingdom
Belarus
Czech Republic
Turkey
South Korea
New Zealand
India


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