Friday, June 08, 2012

IF ONE DOESN’T LOOK, ONE MAY NEVER FIND

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Feeling the need to change-up my surroundings for a bit again I headed off in the Jeep this morning with my cameras.  Spent a couple nice hours crawling around the country side enjoying the scenery & the ambience of our rural surroundings.  I guess it is that constant travel urge in me to just get out there & peer over the next hill & around the next curve in the road.  I have always had that & it has served me well in our travels. 
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THIS IS THE PHLOX PATCH WHERE I TOOK THE BUTTERFLY PHOTOS A COUPLE DAYS AGO
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Another enjoyable purpose for my country road wanderings is to keep an eye out for any ‘For Sale’ signs on rural properties.  Not all people list through Real Estate so there is always an ‘off chance’ of stumbling across something interesting.  If one doesn’t look, one may never find.
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Still patiently awaiting a call from Dr. Anand’s office in Goderich as to when I am to report to the Hospital & have a couple growths removed.  I would just like to get that one behind me & find out the biopsy results of the suspect one.  In two weeks I’ll be back to the Stratford Hospital to have my stent removed.  Will be glad to get that little procedure behind me as well.  I hope to get a report on my Kidney Stone procedure results from a couple weeks ago at that time too.  Isn’t this aging crap just wonderful!!  Oh how I wish we could have started our adventures at a much younger age.
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NOTICE HOW THE ENTIRE ROOF OF THIS BARN IS MADE UP OF SOLAR PANELS
Slipped over to DEER PARK LODGE this afternoon & headed down to the beach to take some photos.  Kelly had sent an email saying all the chairs were set up for Saturday’s wedding.  Looks like the weather is going to co-operate so the ceremony on the beach is a go.  Wedding will take place at 3 P.M. Ontario time.  There are two ways to access the live web cam on the beach.  On DEER PARK'S WEBSITE just look for the little webcam on the left side under the header photos.  The direct camera link is DEER PARK'S BEACH CAM.  You can go there now & check out all the chairs.  If the screen is black it probably just means it’s night time here in Ontario:))
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And, this Berneazian comment from Ed over at THE PEREGRINATING GRAYBEARD regarding Bernese/Burmese dogs I had talked about in my two previous posts.  Ed says,  "Methinks it's "Burmese Mountain Dog", although what the breed has to do with Burma isn't really something I've ever looked into.  There is such a breed but the dog in Al's pictures is a Burnese Mountain Dog as he has said. The Burnese was breed as a Swiss cattle dog. The Burmese was breed as a Burma temple guard dog”.  “There is such a breed but the dog in Al's pictures is a Burnese Mountain Dog as he has said.  Additional doggy info.....  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernese_Mountain_Dog.
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And, for some fine writing & a touch of good old fashioned story telling, I suggest you stop over to the THE SPOTTED DOG RANCH & read a tale Chinle Miller posted in her blog Thursday night.  Has something to do with a Man, a dog, & a train:))
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AMAZING WHAT AREA WOOD CARVERS ARE DOING WITH OLD TREES THESE DAYS >>>
GROANER’S CORNER:((  George got home from his Sunday round of golf later than normal and very tired. "Bad day at the course?" his wife asked.  "Everything was going fine," he said. "Then Larry had a heart attack and died on the 10th tee." "Oh, that's awful!"
"You're not kidding. For the whole back nine it was hit the ball, drag Larry, hit the ball, drag Larry."
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- Tourists see the world, travelers  experience it.
- Home is where your pet is:))
- The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right  now...AL.
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15 comments:

  1. Looks like a beautiful setting for an outdoor wedding. Hope the weather holds. Whatever the dog is called, he was a beauty!!

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  2. Beautiful pictures yet again. That hummer header is a humdinger!

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  3. I just checked out the Deer Park webcam. It turned out to be a great sunset.

    As always Al, I love your pics!

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  4. I checked out the web cam, dark, but I could still see the white chairs. What a beautiful place for a wedding.

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  5. WOW! How much do you think that barn roof cost?

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  6. Thanks for the good word on my story! Love the phlox, really beautiful countryside you have up there. If it were closer I would consider spending some summer up there, it's so pretty. And I forgot to mention that the dogs' names are really cool, all three of them. I got a real kick out of Guinness, both him and his name. :)

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  7. PS I keep forgetting to ask - are there a lot of mosquitoes up there? Just wondering, cause it's so green.

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  8. Beautiful photos. Love the area you live in !!

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  9. Al, you missed the difference in Burnese (with a U) and Bernise (with an E) The latter is correct.

    What a great setting for a wedding!
    And great flower pictures. The country side is always so pretty.

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  10. Great setting for a wedding. Who says you have to go to the Carribean for a nice beach wedding, we have it all right here. Great pictures.

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  11. Your photography is out of the world!
    Mark

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  12. once again lovely pictures...what a spot for a wedding...I love Burmese Mountain dogs...gentle giants...used to show my goldens in same group in the shows...always thought I wanted one...alas if we were just younger I would...good luck with the growth and test results....fingers crossed here for you..

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  13. Thank you so much for sharing your absolutely heavenly place up there in Bayfield for the summer, with all of the flowers and butterflies!

    It must be such an extreme to go to the barren southwest, but I bet it's warmer in winter! :)

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  14. I checked out the web cam around 4:45 PM on Saturday. Based on the disarray of the chairs compared to your picture in the blog, I have concluded that the wedding was a success!

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  15. What a fabulous spot for an outdoor wedding...All 3 of our kids got married outdoors, which is more "God-like" than any church, if you ask me..(and most people don't.) Love that Bayfield area...not ALL that far from us, by the way!

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