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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Chocolate Tube Slime - Stemonitis splendens



growing on the side of a standing dead pine - there are hundreds of slime molds in North America so it is possible that I am a bit off on my heading but it is close - read up on these (slime molds in general) "Dr Jkylls and Mr Hydes of the plant world" that can change completely in appearance and move in an amobalike way.

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Falling Apart - the bridge over the North East Creek from North East to Charlestown



I take a lot of photographs from this bridge - ducks, great blue heron, mergansers, muskrat, and etc - and every time I drive across it I am really aware of the extremely poor condition of this ninety year old piece of work - cracks in the macadam run parallel to the the waist high walls completely across the structure, the walls are separating and leaning in anticipation, and in the lower photograph you can see how a relatively recent cosmetic attempt at hiding the droop of the road surface is occurring even more with at least two inches to three inches of gap - what big truck is going to make the final run?, eh?


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One of BBC's Best Photographs

Lisbon, Portugal

A singer smokes a cigarette outside a traditional Fado house in the Alfama neighbourhood of the city.
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Splash of Colour


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My Drilled Well - Finally I have the water to my completely updated plumbing system - Great Job



Mike is making the invoice at the end of the job - two great workers and interesting to boot - I recommend them whole-heartedly - and they are local

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