SWIM MR. O & SERENITY

Do you see Mr. O hanging in the air?




This little piece of serenity
is always a stop place for us when we head down the Eastern Shore.

Just beside us is this bridge with Oyster Pond (a lake) on one side
and a very small inlet pond which becomes filled with
salt water on this side.
At present the tide has changed and is beginning to go out.

and lookee her
another bridge exactly behind me
This pond is affected by the local tides
much more than Oyster Pond.

I am just plain happy and content
 to be able to keep Mr. O
in focus, retrieve and come back to the landing.

PATIENCE

The secret of patience

is to do something else

in the meantime.

 heading off to a wharf and chilling

always sounds good to me.

Waiting for those arms to spread

encouraging me to run to Jim.

And zeroing in on Mr. Orangie

~

all help while waiting for our visit to Dr. Lindsay

Monday at the vet.

~ 

Fingers crossed folks

HUGGING FEST IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD

Now that I have caught your attention ~

Look who we found on the rocks last week in need of some massive hugs

and licks from yours truly!

It's our dear, dear friend Louise from

Standing Into Danger

This Coloradan/Nova Scotian dog lover is game for pretty much anything,

so we spent 2 days showing her a few of our favourite places.

(Psst: this is a bayberry hedge along one of the cliffs)

 Everywhere we went the humans kept hugging.

Here's Ron and Louise 

after fishcakes and beans, salad, gingerbread, coffee

and laughing at a french cafe nearby.

Re-discovering the paragliders near MacDonald House on the hill

turned out to be exceptional because the wind was super warm

and there were so many sails flitting about the skies.

 Once again warm hugs coming from Jim this time

after the french cafe meal.

Another unbelievably scrumptious meal was had at 

RHUBARB

a restaurant near Peggy's Cove ~

see what I mean

fishcakes again

portobello burger

deep fried fish and chips

(hungry yet?)

so after desserts

and 

to keep up the hugging tradition

Louise and Jim

act up 

while returning to the car

Humans please!

A trek out onto the barrens was necessary.

You know what?

I can't remember if this was before or after that 

mouth watering meal.

But as you can see we all needed some fresh air 

and

laughter again!

We found this beautiful lake to throw Mr. Orangie.

Louise has the honours of course.

Another black Lab joined in because this was too much fun to pass up.

Across the road on Queensland Beach

Louise and Ron saw this cool Doodle

with the dyed blue hair.

Whattaya think?

Should I?

Do you think we all had a supreme time

laughing and hugging?

Affirmative!

Seriously, there so much to be said about 50 year friendships

which began many years ago

with a huge space in between of living our own lives,

social media intervenes

et voila 

back together again.

Ain't it all good!

I do believe I did a good thing today Charlie Brown

and

am so happy for those three humans.

Life is good

so Good!

BUZZING & SWIMMING

Swimming this morning in the North West Arm

without a Doodle care in the world ~

A two-step was in full swing inside this luscious pink rose

a solo engorgment of pollen by this bee as we stared down inside

so still 

so beautiful 

so Lady Bug 

almost translucent hiding in amongst the stamens

the white roses are a fresh pink before opening up to us

blackberry blooms so crinkly 

I continue to swim

rescuing Mr. Orangie from a fate worse than death.

As I return to the top of the hill 

I hear the buzzing of yet another bee

totally lost in all these blossoms ~

while Jim snoozes on the bench soaking up the beautiful summer warmth

and I take a reprieve from fetching and chewing Mr. Orangie 

within an inch of his orange life.

I do love our summers especially getting lost in the park, 

meeting friends,

swimming 

listening to the bees

and

devouring a green salad

anytime I want.

I Love My Summers!

MR. ORANGIE WANNABEE ~ YIKES!!

Can you believe this!?!

Come along and see!

A Mr. Orangie Wannabee

has invaded my hill!

I know you can see that GIANT Mr. Orangie just above my tail, right!?!

It's time to sniff this fake out!

Jumping Doodles, it has the same colours

and it has feet!

also a head ~~~

massive sniffing and checking out the credentials before ~

this Mr. Orangie Wannbee fake takes off 

into the wild blue yonder.

For a second there I thought aliens had invaded.

Has this ever happened to you?

'DOODLE'FOGVORTEX

Just minding my own DOODLEBUSINESS as usual

in Point Pleasant Park

bouncing Mr. Orangie in the fall leaves ~

sometimes Mr. Orangie tricks me

and

Where's Waldo aka Mr. Orangie

 becomes the game of the day.

The thing is I didn't even notice

ALL THE FOG.

All the brightly coloured joggers 

were fading into the distance 

as they sped by us ~

I tried to warn this 

PINKLADY

not to go down there

but she paid no attention to me.

What do I know anyway!?!

All these park friends 

kept close by each other

for protection 

I am sure!

Dogs do know better, you know!

We slipped passed this ol' haunted stump

which from the feeling it gave me

I should keep the guys close

and

start heading back to the car.

I think that this 

YELLOWJACKETLADY

and her tiny munchkin

had the very same idea ~

FOG = THE UNKNOWN

Just ahead of us this 

BRIGHTBLUEJOGGER

was heading for the two lights

coming down the road

Then it started 

everything began to swirl

spinning round and round

so fast

so quickly

We were caught up in the frenzy!

For a few moments I thought I'd see

Alice from Alice in Wonderland ~

and before we knew it
it was all over
all calm
all serene
all better

It was a very strange walk indeed
and
I for one
am so very happy
to see the car just down in the parking lot.
~
What was that anyway?
Any ideas?