that's_entertainment!!!'s photostream

Benny has been hounding us that all the other dogs have bikes and he gets tired having to walk everywhere. We had trouble finding a bicycle to fit him, but finally broke down and got him this one. As you see, he's already taking a break before heading back to the house.

Tea www.flickr.com/photos/mnmz2/3659954276/ takes great bird shots.
Rosy asked her if she placed her bird bath in the sun or in the shade?
Tea said "Both", that she had bird baths all over her yard.

So began The Great Bird Bath Hunt of 2009.
We finally found this one we liked.
But like everything else these days, it came in about 12 pieces all requiring different tools.

As my reward, I got to take this first photo with the reflections of the gardenia.
Anyway, please DO say you like it.
I'd really hate to have to take it back at this point. :-)

As for the birds, they still prefer to drink out of Benny's water dish.

Rosy and I were in a local greenhouse and, although I'm known for my photography of the Ottawa Tulip Festival and the Fishing Derby at Rosy's Lake (although Rosy's fisherman cowboy shot took top honors), I'm not really such a fan of flowers. So I was looking around for "Guess What It Is?" type shots and saw these "plants". Don't they look like cake decorations?

Above, is a statue of Louis Cyr, a Montrealer who displayed incredible feats of strength in the late 1800s, early 1900s.
At age eighteen, in his first "Strongman Contest", he lifted a fully grown male horse placed on a platform, that weighed at least 3/4 of a ton.
5 years later, he won the "Strongest Man in Canada" title, lifting a 218 lb. barbell in one hand and 2,371 lbs. on his back.
Other feats included: lifting a platform on his back holding 18 men (4337 lbs.), lifting a 1000 lb. weight with his finger and pushing a freight car up an incline.
On October 12, 1891, in Montreal. Louis resisted the pull of four draught horses (two in each hand) as grooms stood cracking their whips to get the horses to pull harder. Photos of this monumental feat of strength are on display at the National Archives of Canada.
So, Happy Father's Day, a day to remember your own "World's Strongest Man".

came as quite a surprise, when this sturgeon, the largest fish caught that day, simply latched onto this little girl's earlobe. Apparently, he did her no harm and simply wanted to whisper: "Happy Pretty Pink Tuesday!" Still quite something, as it was the first time a girl won the event since it began over 20 years ago - AND the first time EVER someone won it without a fishing rod!