Friday, May 11, 2007

Summer Vacation BUT WORKING (#%$&*) !!

Just to let you know the summer job on the boats will take me away for awhile.
I spend 100% of my days outdoors and the rest, well that's for you to guess!
I did post my last BLOG on April 19th.."Fun Good 'ol Days Style", but it was NOT
linked to my main blog, so don't know if you saw it or for that matter if you can find it??
Oh what an amateur Blogger I am, but I try.
Have a great summer in the Creek and to da Moose, best of luck for what's coming up.
Luv Ya ...... Ya, Ya, Ya....................S"empty"

Friday, March 30, 2007

Winter Woods 2006

PEACE WITHIN SILENCE THROUGHOUT











Railway Hidden & Hydro Towers

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

FECTEAU - GASPE


Tatossian


COSGROVE


COSGROVE...More trees


Cosgrove Trees Near Hudson


Sugarbush Shanty


Pond Hockey


fecteau wild


masson


Black Sheep


This is sample of some of my wallpaper. Most are Quebec artists and
are ALL Canadians.
Masson was a first and Cosgrove ......I had to grow into.
He in his later life, lived in an area of HH known as Mt. Victoria half way up
the hill on the left. He was a man of Trees.
Fecteau another fav.
Oh...there are sooo many great artists.
SO here goes and enjoy.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

A Picture = 1000 Words

This is a short story about my October 2007 trip to the Bras D'Or Lakes, N.S. The pictures will cut down my words hence why the title "A Picture = 1000 Words". The Bras D'Or Lakes are part salt and part fresh water. Brackish is the term used for these waters. Some shores, depending how far away from the Atlantic Ocean are more or less brackish than others. The water in the "Early Morn" picture has only a hint of salt and I believe is potable need be.

The lighthouse is well known, although the name escapes me. It has two claims to fame: 1). known for the obvious....nautical navigation and 2). for the ghosts that reside within. The only hint the picture would reveal of this second fact is the rather foggy, eerie air about its locale.
The Ghosts are siamese twins as history records and their supposed names are James I and Jesse II. After careful investigation and scrutiny James and Jesse were questioned. They admitted to their crimes, took up secret residence to the Island Lighthouse and never were seen again. Later on Their names were reversed to Jesse James. And NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY.

Did you know that this part of Nova Scotia, called Cape Breton has a Sasquatch? Well I certainly did not until the day we took a hike in a nearby woods. And you guessed it, I had my camera, so again a picture is worth a 1000 words. I don't believe this beast saw me as luckily I was hidden by dense undergrowth. The only detail the picture does not reveal of this large creature is its weight which I estimated to be 350 pounds. It stealthily walked away not making a sound. I disappeared in a 180 degree direction.

The first picture will give you a view of the Lakes from lofty heights. The foreground is an abandoned Marble Quarry and behind are the woods of the Marble Mountain Sasquatch. I quickly vacated the area because I did not want to become a second Quarry...hee..hee. Nonetheless, a truly magnificent part of our country.







Bras D'Or Lakes


Monday, March 26, 2007

MY NIECE.. KATE.. "MISSZOO"


My BLOG MENTOR...MISSZOO

My mentor
My mentor Kate a.k.a. Misszoo is a Journalism
Masters at Mizzou University, Columbia, Missouri

Free For All In My Kitchen



This was my Sisters and my reunion in Pottawa with many of my local friends. What do you think of US now?

Sunday, March 25, 2007

First Fling - Nostalgic Memory

This is my first fling at blogging, if that's what you call it in the context of a Blog??
I guess I'll get the hang of it, but I was never much of a writer and NEVER kept a diary.
Now for the name of this Blog. What is COTTSWORLD? This is neither a place of Reality
nor Idealism; rather somewhere in between; IF there should be such a place. Could there not
be? We were SO lucky to have been raised in the Lac de Deux M. villages of HH, H & C, QC.
Just perhaps, that is where... half way between Reality and Ideal... really was and still is.
So that is where I am coming from, back to the basics and the roots. The Reality was, there
were never any worries and you had a great start in life and a good chance that all would be well. And has it not been? The Ideal was perhaps, how people that did not live there, thought how HH, H & C was. So that's how COTTSWORLD started and now is the time to look forward. BUT just before, here IS a VERY brief past history.
I came to POTtawa in February 1972 and was one of the first to have been one of hundreds, maybe thousands of the active workforce to have said salut to Quebec.
As you may know, I retired from Ma B after 28 years and I did so just
short of my 50th birthday. That was back in 1997 and in that year I joined the employ
of P B L , a tour company that has been in business for some 60 years.
My buddy DD invited me to join with them for the summer months, mid May - mid October.
So there I am 5 months of the year, meeting and greeting people from around the world.
I will be starting my 11th season with them this May. May happens to be a BIG month for
me, especially this year 2007. Why? Well I was born in May, 1947, SO YOU do the Math!
Life has been good to me, my only regret is that I cannot report to you about my family.
Oh, not about my Mum, Dad and siblings, BUT my own. Regrets at times I was never married and as far as I know..... have no dependents Ha Ha!! Maybe, perhaps, yeah..that's a good thing. Mind you, I have had the aquaintance of many beautiful gals, so there is an upside to my social history.
I have no pets (dogs, cats, etc.) as I feel I would be tied down. I try and keep active and do like
to travel once and awhile. My favorite trips in the last five years would highlight: Dominican
Republic, Vancouver, Halifax, THE MASTERS in Georgia and golf in Florida and
South Carolina. Well folks that's about it for my First slam at the plate and now I have to figure
out how to deliver this to YOU or enable you to view.
I'll have to do some fine tuning and want to get pictures going too.
But one step at a time. Geeez my beer's warm, too much talking here.
I will do my best to keep in touch with my goings ons, but being an X-Ma B Bum I kind ov
prefer communication by phone.

Cheers ..and a 2 line poem:

Toast to you with a BLUE
In other hand a BUD Too.