I got to wondering how dogs compare to children in size and weight. I guess there are dogs that compare to adults as well - think of a male Bullmastiff at a 110 to 130 pounds. That weight would be a female human adult at five feet four inches. Chihuahuas weigh around 6 pounds, so that would be a newborn baby girl (of low weight as newborn weight starts at 7 lbs) and almost 20 inches tall. The average Golden Retriever is 70 lbs so that translates to a 10 year old boy.
Whatever a dog's size, they are willing partners for an outdoor walk in the woods. We can't be sure what a 10 year old boy would want to do this Saturday.
Where will we go to get the best Fall colour experience? The ontarioparks.com website has a Fall Colour Map HERE.
You can go to Algonquin Park right now and see good colour due to cool temperatures over the last few days. The information includes the report date, dominant colour, colour change and best viewing. Colour change looks like a percentage colour and percentage leaf fall. So in Algonquin right now the colour change is 50% and leaf fall 10%.
There were no Niagara parks included in the report. So I checked out the Fall Colour Progression Report from this SITE. The colour change in Niagara is 0%. Included is Beamer Conservation Area - that's Grimsby's park on the escarpment. Also covered are Brock's Monument, Ball's Falls and Niagara Falls. Burlington's Royal Botanical Gardens has its own entry with 0% change. So we're not yet into the Fall colours here in Niagara.
So we'll use the colours of pumpkins for our Fall image today. This is Hildreth's on Greenlane, a fruit and vegetable stand.
Grimsby's best known door is straight-forward - it is the front door to the Museum. The regency-style entrance of the Grimsby Museum was the original doorway from the Marlatat Inn (1855) that once stood on Main Street.
Nothing gets retrieved for Toronto's best known door. The majority searches bring Doors Open Ontario results from over the years.
We can find the world's most famous doors:
221b Baker Street, London
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
The Columbus Doors
The Gates of Paradise, Florence
10 Downing Street, London
We can identify some famous movie doors:
The round hobbit door
The Wizard of Oz door to the Emerald City
Noting Hill's blue door
The wood entrance gates to Jurassic Park
It does seem unusual that there aren't more articles on specific doors to see. Doors hold a special place in literature - a metaphor or allegory symbolizing change and transformation. To be given the key to a door is significant. There are many designs and embellishments to doors over the millennia The oldest door? A Neolithic wood door was found in Switzerland that is more than 5,000 years old.
So here's our wonderful Museum front door at Open Doors last week, and then its representation as an ornament on last year's "Doors of Grimsby Christmas Tree" at the Fantasy of Trees. I took the picture and the next day the door ornament was gone. I guess it was too cute - I thought it was.
