DULL, DRAB AND RAINY DAY BUT WE FOUND SOME COLOR OUTSIDE ANYWAY

A SMALL RAY OF SUNLIGHT BRIEFLY TOUCHED THESE WILLOW TREES AND WAS GONE AGAIN

We sure had to be fast on our feet and paws this morning dodging around between a deluge of falling raindrops.  Even more daunting than rain were heavy wind gusts coming in from the Northeast.    Kelly said those wind nearly knocked her down when out with Pheebs on their early morning walk.  

LAKE HURON SHOWING IT'S FINEST AQUAMARINE COLORS

BAYFIELD'S OFFICIAL NEW BEACH BARRIER

THEY HAVE EVEN SET SOME LARGE ROCKS IN PLACE TO SLOW DOWN BEACH EROSION

THIS MACHINE ON THE BARGE IS USED IN POUNDING DOWN THOSE LONG STEEL POLES INTO THE WATER AT THE ENDS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL BOAT DOCK 

AND THIS IS THE GIZMO USED TO POUND THOSE POLES DOWN

THOSE ARE HOW THE POLES ARE USED

NORMALLY ON A FESTIVE MAY 24TH WEEKEND IN BAYFIELD, BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET WOULD BE LINED WITH VEHICLES......NOT SO THIS YEAR

EVEN BAYFIELD'S CLAN GREGOR SQUARE IS TOTALL ROPED OFF

STORMY SKIES TODAY AND OVER THERE IS THE PAUL BUNYAN LAKE FRONT RESORT PARK AT BAYFIELD'S SOUTH END

OUR RIDE THROUGH THE COUNTRYSIDE WAS SHORT BUT PRETTY

'HEY DAD LOOK, IT'S A SAINT BARNYARD'

Not a long Jeep ride today.  A swing through Bayfield looking for a few photos and a short stop at Bayfield's cemetery where I thought we could maybe catch ourselves a walk between rain showers.  Our walk lasted all of two minutes before rains were upon us again and we were back in the Jeep headed home.  

OUR WALK IN THE CEMETERY WAS CUT SHORT BY RAIN

WE FOUND SOME COLOR IN BAYFIELD

HEY AND EVEN A HOLSTEIN COW

I LIKE THIS OLD BARN AND WISHED WE HAD ONE JUST LIKE IT

Here I will include my remaining photos from the second half of our Maitland Woods walk Saturday morning.  I have walked this trail nearly a dozen times over the years but on the second half of this walk I was again to see something I had never seen there before.

WE CONTINUE ON WITH THE SECOND HALF OF OUR WALK

A SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO ROOT SNAKE:))

CONJOINED TREES

AND THEN WE CAME ACROSS ANOTHER SURPRISE

OMG COULD THERE BE A SECOND WITCH'S HOUSE IN THIS DARK FOREST

I' DON'T THINK WE SHOULD GO IN THERE DAD'

'GUESS WE BETTER HAVE A LOOK INSIDE WHILE WE'RE HERE PHEEBS'

OMG AGAIN....THIS WITCH RIDES A BICYCLE WHICH MEANS SHE MUST BE A DISTANT COUSIN TO THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST

'COME ON TOTO WE HAD BETTER BE GETTIN OURSELVES OUT OF HERE

'THIS WAY DAD AND LET'S GET GOING'

TRILLIUMS

ALAS WE ARE BACK TO THE TRAILHEAD WITH THE JEEP OFF TO THE UPPER RIGHT SOMEWHERE

Home again I spent the whole rest of today cozily inside near our fireplace warding off Monday's damp chills.  Kelly had gone over to Richard and Gayles for a few hours to help Gayle with some computer problems.  

PERIWINKLE

Quite an array of birds in our front yard again today.  A Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jays, Grackles, Red-Winged Blackbirds, Mourning Doves, several varieties of Woodpeckers and Black-Capped Chickadees.  Add those birds to the mixture of Squirrels, Bunnies, and Chipmunks running around and it's quite a circus we have going on out there.  Very entertaining and I love watching all the antics right from either my computer chair or my recliner.  Despite a fine drizzle in the air Pheebs and I did make it out for a short walk around our Park's pond  No sign of the Mallard ducks or Canada Geese.

GROANER'S CORNER:((  'Google Pizza'

- Hello! Gordon's pizza? 
- No sir it's Google's pizza. 
- So it's a wrong number? Sorry 
- No sir, Google bought it. 
- OK. Take my order please 
- Well sir, you want the usual? 
- The usual? You know me? 
- According to our caller ID data sheet, in the last 12 times, you ordered pizza with cheeses, sausage, thick crust. 
- OK! This is it ... 
- May I suggest to you this time ricotta, arugula with dry tomato.? 
- What? I hate vegetables. 
- Your cholesterol is not good, sir. 
- How do you know? 
- We crossed the number of your fixed line with your name, through the subscribers' guide. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.  
- Okay, but I do not want this pizza!,  I already take medicine ... 
- Excuse me, but you have not taken the medicine regularly, from our commercial database, 4 months ago, you only purchased a box with 30 cholesterol tablets at Drugsale Network. 
- I bought more from another drugstore. 
- It's not showing on your credit card statement 
- I paid in cash 
- But you did not withdraw that much cash according to your bank statement 
- I have another source of cash 
- This is not showing as per your last Tax form unless you bought them from an undeclared income source. 
- WHAT THE HELL? 
- I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the intention of helping you. 
- Enough! I'm sick of google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp. I'm going to an island without internet, cable or TV, where there is no cell phone line and no one to watch me or spy on me.  
- I understand sir but you need to renew your passport first as it has expired 5 weeks ago.
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