3 Weeks 'Til Spring!!!

Kind of a gloomy day today...makes me wish for spring...


here are a few of the earliest flowers in my cottage garden last year....

hopefully heading out there on Friday, for a drive...maybe there will be something poking thru....:o)

Here's hoping that the winter is nearly at an end....I know, I know, it hasn't been that bad.....and I was AWOL for some of it, but it still has been dark, damp and soggy for most of it.

Hope these tiny flowers brighten your day....I am hoping for more really soon.......

                                  Sunny days ahead...

                                           :o)

Feathery Beach Friends

This will be my last post, before leaving sunny Florida...today is a very cool, windy day, so it gave us some extra time to start packing up, and preparing for the long drive ahead of us....thought I would share a few of the birds we have encountered along the beach... these little guys are the waverunners or sandpipers....very cute, and little...

This handsome devil  is the Great Blue Heron, one of the largest of the Herons...not as plentiful as the little waverunners, but I managed to capture a few..

This is the Double crested Cormorant...it was funny, cause he was just sitting on the beach...when I read up about him, it seems that their feathers are not waterproof, to enable them to dive for fish, sooo...they have to sun themselves in order for their feathers to dry out!!    We have cormorants at the cottage, so I was surprised that they were also in the Gulf waters...

Another of the Elegant Terns...very social bird, and rather comical..

Cormorants and Pelicans...just stringing along!!

This is a Great White Heron...taken from our balcony..there is a small inlet from the intercoastal, where a lot of seabirds live...very noisy at dusk...with all the different calls...

As I said, this will be my last post from florida....We should be home by Tuesday afternoon


I will be glad to be off this "laptop" and back onto my own computer...very difficult to
place photos etc....with no
mouse.....

I have lots more sunny photos
to share with you all...

Until then, my friends...ciao..   :o)

People Along The Beach

now....there's a handsome couple!!

Another fabulous sunset... I know I will miss these...not looking forward to the long drive home....:o)

This Post Is From last Year....Enjoy!!

 I called it...

"Forgotten Beach Fence"...

Spotted this old beach "snow fencing"...wonder if it used to be 4 feet tall....and got swallowed up by the winds and the sand and the dunes...


anyway...I thought it was pretty cool.... 

This reminds me of a fish skeleton...

These little "black-eyed-susans" grow everywhere in the dunes and around peoples beach areas...I find them very attractive and cheerful...perhaps I should look up what they are called....Honor, can you help me out here??

Just put these begonias in because I love them so much...they are from my stash of photos....not much in bloom down near the beach right now...except for those cute little "susans".....   :o)




Adding a foot note.....I loved this post from last February...

We walked down to where this was...

And...

Unfortunately it is gone....

taken back by the sand....


On the menu tonight....

 Fresh asparagus....fresh chicken fingers....

Tomatoes, avacadoes, onion,black olives and goats cheese...

Plan to do the chicken in my grill pan...

Don't want to heat the kitchen up too much...

Quite warm today...

I'm off to have a beer and watch the sunset...:o) 


Hope you all had a great day....


              Cheers!     :o)
              linda       

Surfin' At Sunset

Captured these photos on Thursday afternoon...just at sunset...

And lordy, lordy....looked who showed up just in time!!

Pondering his next move.....

And here is the Grand Finale!!!  The sunset...I mean!!

                                  Enjoy the view....  :o)

Beach Scapes

Just a few shots of the beach..on one of our many daily walks....



Relax....sit back....enjoy the ride.... or the walk...whatever


Glad you could join me...

Kinda cloudy this day...but still beautiful...the beach is the best part of being here...I don't think I could stay in a condo 5 miles from the beach...this is what it is all about...for me, anyway...

Greg searches for interesting shells...I am always running...well, not running...up to the dunes...that is where there is more interesting "stuff" going on...

This is what it looked like after an extremely windy, rough day....like a canyon wall almost....



fascinating...

The sand dunes are plentiful along this stretch of the gulf shoreline....I would love to see the grasses in the summer...all green and with their plumes...must be awesome...

Love this little patch...almost looks like it was planted this way....but I am sure it is just nature....or natural...however you want to look at it...

Hope you enjoyed this little stroll along the beach with me...


I hear the weather at home is kinda gloomy...

 Working on a post with interesting people along the beach...so many unusual characters....hard to pick just a few!


                        Here's to sunny days ahead for all of us

                                              :o)        Remember to feed my fish when you visit!!