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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There Is A Band Around The Beak - of which type of gull, eh?


Lone Eagle Conserving Energy while watching the surroundings for prey, in the cold of rain and snow


Photos Today 07Mar'18 - new nesting site this year (again)








- these three photos taken today, 07Mar'18, distinctly showing one eagle in the closer, taller tree with about three other large birds - one under the nest, one just level and to the right of nest, and one in far lower right - I think (based on nothing but a 'feeling') that this new nest was chosen and being built upon by the same eagles that nested in the tree which the recent storm scoured of a large old nest - just a hunch, even though I also today got a distant photograph of an eagle simply resting while watching the river for prey near to the 'old' nest site - only on the opposite bank - (see next post for photograph of same.

The Wood Sprite - original photograph, before straightening etc


The Wood Sprite


"powdered with the pollen of the frosty, starry night - the creature tells of her own exile from Russia and the hardships she has endured as a result - after the candle blows out the narrator relights it only to be left alone with a "subtle scent in the room, of birch, of humid moss..."