Wednesday, June 06, 2012

PHEEBS HAS A COUPLE PALS IN FOR A SLEEPOVER & WHERE WAS WALT DISNEY REALLY BORN?

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I’M GUESSING THIS IS AN EASTERN TIGER SWALLOWTAIL NIKON D40 – 300mm NIKKOR LENS

Figured I'd had enough days of back to back puttering & muttering.   Decided this morning it was time to change-up my scenery a bit for the day.  Grabbed my cameras, strapped on the Jeep & headed off in a north-easterly direction through our pastoral countryside.  It is a time of year when farmer's crops are bursting forth in waving seas of green across the landscape.  Large fields stretching forever between acres of hardwood forests.  Corn & Soy beans  make up the bulk of what is being grown with Alf-Alfa, clover, oats, grass, & barley bringing up the rear.  Our rural countryside has just about every shade of green a person can imagine.  How fortunate we live where we do. 
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CORN CROP’S LOOKING GOOD
My 4 hour travels this morning took me through hilly country between Bayfield & Wingham Ontario.  A lot of the area in our neck of the woods is fairly flat so I have a general tendency to drift over to where the hills are.  Not exactly the mountains & canyons of the southwest of course but it's the closest thing we have to that in this area.  Wherever we go I enjoy getting up on high points of land & looking over the countryside stretching out & away for miles & miles around.

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YEP, WE HAVE MANY SHADES OF GREEN OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY

Stopped at a nice patch of wild Phlox alongside a country road & was able to take a few more Butterfly photos.  The added bonus of taking these pictures is the sweet smell of the Phlox itself.  Couple that with the peaceful solitude along the back roads & you have the makings of a very fine day.

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I’M GUESSING THIS IS AN EASTERN BLACK SWALLOWTAIL NIKON D40 – 300mm NIKKOR LENS   

There has always been some controversy as to the birthplace of Walt Disney.  Below are two conflicting accounts of just where his birthplace really was.  {Walt Disney was born to Elias Disney an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent. ‘His father moved to the United States from Canada’ after his parents failed at farming there.} 'OR'  {Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa community area to Irish-Canadian father Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, who was of German and English descent.}  Of course many in Canada think it was here but you folks in the States think it was there.  Have also heard since I was a boy that it was this area in Huron County where Walt's Mother & Father had their farm.  And, northeast of Bayfield may just be where that farm was....if he was born in Canada of course.  There is a short half mile stretch of road north of Homesville Ontario called Disney Road.  I checked out that road this morning & there are no farms on it......but there might have been back in 1901 when Walt Disney was born.  Not that it really matters where he was born, but it would be nice to lay that age old discrepancy to rest.

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THIS IS A SECTION OF DISNEY ROAD

We have quite an action packed house tonight.  A couple of Pheebs Deer Park Lodge Pals are here for a day or two.  Kelly came home with three year old Stella & 5 month old Guinness in the car this afternoon.  Their Mom & Dad had to go to a graduation ceremony near Toronto so we volunteered to look after the two little Rag-a-Muffins.  Their Mom, Kirsten, owns Deer Park Lodge.  Needless to say,  it’s been quite a circus we have going on here & we love it.  Reminds us so much of our early Bayfield Bunch days with Max, Checkers, & the Motormouse.  Took them all for a big walk around the Pine Forest trail after supper & they all loved romping & playing together.  We love to see dogs running free & enjoying themselves.  Didn’t take Stella long to bound right into the Park’s Pond with a big splash.  The guys will be here all day tomorrow & possibly tomorrow night.  Guinness is a male pure bred Burnese Mountain Dog & Stella is a female Australian Shepherd.  How nice to hear a herd of scrambling doggy paws racing up & down our hall again:))

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THIS IS STELLA & GUINNESS

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LITTLE 3 MONTH OLD GUINNESS ON THE RIGHT IS ALMOST AS BIG AS THE PHEEBS

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GUINNESS STOPS FOR A REST & 3 LITTLE DOGGY BUMS PATROL THE PINE FOREST TRAIL

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STELLA & GUINNESS HEAD FOR THE POND

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IN LEFT PHOTO KELLY IS ON THE DEER PARK LODGE PHONE HANDLING A CALL

GROANER’S CORNER:((  There was once a Snail who was sick and tired of his reputation for being so slow. He decided to get some fast wheels to make up the difference. After shopping around a while, he decided that the Datsun 240-Z was the car to get. So the Snail goes to the nearest Datsun dealer and says he wants to buy the 240-Z, but he wants it repainted "240-S".
The dealer asks, "Why 'S'?"
The Snail replies, "'S' stands for snail. I want everybody who sees me roaring past to know who's driving."
Well, the dealer doesn't want to lose the unique opportunity to sell a car to a snail, so he agrees to have the car repainted for a small fee.
The Snail gets his new car and spent the rest of his days roaring happily down the highway at top speed. And whenever anyone would see him zooming by, they'd say "Wow! Look at that S-car go!"

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18 comments:

  1. enjoy the 12 paws in the house!..what fun that must be!!!

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  2. The pitter patter of a dozen paws must be akin to a herd of horses dashing thru the room!
    Sue was over tonight with her Crew and with our HoundHerd, we had a stampede of 20 paws!!!
    Beautiful photography as usual!
    Geri

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  3. Love the dog photos, also more awesome butterflies.

    They look like smarty pants, those dogs (who knows, maybe the butterflies, too).

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  4. OK..Now I gotta research Disney birthplace...Thanks for the info...I will do some digging on this one..

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  5. When I put those two butterflies in my frame at 10 years old, I identified them as "Tiger Swallowtail" and "Black Swallowtail". It's natural that they'd get further differentiated as time goes on...

    I told that S-car go joke many times in the late 60s. Congratulations on resurrecting it!

    The "name @ URL" option is no longer offered on your comment form. Must everyone have an account on one of the big corporate sites to comment nowadays?

    Craig MacKenna

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  6. Those butterfly pictures are so beautiful. But of course my favs are the ones of the dogs. How wonderful for Pheebs to have some doggy pals for a sleepover. Looks like they are all having a blast.

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  7. And Elias Disney lived here (Ellis KS) in my area, with his parents in the late 1880's. There are still some of Disney's relatives around. We are known more for the home of Walter P. Chrysler, than the Disney's.
    Love the pictures of the dogs & butterflies.

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  8. Love all the tongues hanging out cause that means a good time is being had by all. I've always thought Disney was from Canada.

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  9. I think you better explain tonight's "groaner." I bet a lot of readers don't get it.

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  10. The Disney query is like the "who invented Hockey", or "who invented Basketball" conundrum. Unless there's accurate record keeping from the very beginning, which certainly isn't going to be the case when a bunch of sports types get together and invent something, there will always be questions.

    Methinks it's "Burmese Mountain Dog", although what the breed has to do with Burma isn't really something I've ever looked into.

    Nice pics.

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  11. Oh what fun it must be with the guest dogs. They are looking really cute and seem to like the Pheebs alot. Never seen that breed before.

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  12. There is such beautiful countryside here in south west Ontario, always great scenery at this time of year too. Great pics as usual. Sleep overs are always fun, hope they didn't keep you up all night.

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  13. Don'tcha just loving seeing and hearing those joyful sounds as they romp in the house? Oliver and Olivia will even run from front to back in the motorhome.

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  14. I've really been bugging Michael lately to let me get Emmi a companion--she loves playing with other dogs!

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  15. Well, I woke up this morning and finally got the groaner, I'm a little slow...escargot...very funny.

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  17. "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.

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