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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P.S.


I am just finishing my second (and last) wee dram of Ardberg 10 year old and really enjoying that slight slippage from the tedium of the day - and must say that indeed it is a great enjoyable taste of one of those glorious single malts - mainly from Scotland, home of my grandmother - that Scotland has given to the world - now off to 'A Rule Against Murder', one of a series of mysteries by Louise Penny that nicely manages to convey a continuing background story of intrigue while also introducing a separate mystery taking place in the immediate time frame of the novel in hand.

 

- and I know it is around midnight in Europe

perusing my views both communicative in thought and vision

United States - just early evening
Germany
France 
Ireland 
United Kingdom

strange, I am watching sun-set and moon-rise with the air pellucid at this magic time of day but you night owls in Europe are through the (again 'magic') wonders of internet interacting with me and I will probably never meet or know you - and around the globe people in the middle east, in Asia,
and in South America will at some point in the cycle of the day be clicking on the computer to share my random - sometimes gloriously new vistas, sometimes boringly repetitive - but truly new variations - of my round of looking at the world around me.  Thank you for sharing with me 

Himself


The End of Another Precious Day - filtered through Black Hill Wood


Osprey, Pandion haliaetus - across the river, resting in a tree but eyeing the river for fish