New Year’s Day 2018
Time-Lapse Sunrise Video
[Jerry Goldsmith, Theme from A Patch of Blue]
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Nature
Sun & Fun
“Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland.”
Not so here in Florida. Yesterday I went out in the dark to the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to watch the sun come up.
Kiteboarders were already out skimming across Tampa Bay.
One guy – and, oddly enough, all the surfers seemed to be over 40 – raced a freighter to the bridge…
… and won!
Then I drove across the bridge to the South side. No snow there either.
(But reports say it’s “possible” in the next few days.)
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A Walk in the Boonies
Some of you may remember that I started this website after a visit to Yellowstone and I was intent on posting mostly pictures of birds and animals. For the past couple of years, however, wildlife opportunities have been few and far between.
Yesterday I was able to reunite with some photog friends – Will, Ronnie, Debbie & Brandon – and we hit the trails together. I’m rusty with a long lens these days but here are a few mediocre shots that got my juices flowing again.
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Pic du Jour #16: “Fog”
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[a Friday image project, a la carte]
Pic du Jour #12: “Weather Forecast = Undecided”
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Pic du Jour #2: “Trusting or Suspicious?”
Alongside a highway somewhere out West, this inquisitive young llama was irresistibly cute.
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[a Friday image project, a la carte]
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
It has been raining for 18 days now and I am not the least bit thrilled. Not the normal summer pattern of brief-but-intense showers quickly replaced by a blazing sun but steady all day pitter-patter, streets flooded, and even the towering Skyway Bridge occasionally closed to tall vehicles susceptible to high winds.
[There used to be a newspaper here in the “Sunshine State” that was given away free any day the sun didn’t shine, an anomaly in these parts occurring only about 5-6 times a year. One year Mother Nature didn’t cooperate, however, and St. Pete’s Evening Independent went broke.]
Last Fall at a marina in Humboldt County on the coast of Northern California just as their rainy season kicked in I shelled out over 100 dollars for a shiny brand new oilskin slicker, the kind like brawny commercial fishermen wear to keep dry on trawlers out on the high seas. But I quickly discovered that while it looked neat it was way too cumbersome to climb in and out of, especially from inside a car with bucket front seats. I never wore it, I just headed South ‘till it stopped raining.
Which is not to say that I don’t enjoy SOME rain, splashin’ & playin’ like I was 60 years younger. (Okay, so maybe I carry an umbrella and a towel.) And Tzuri of course loves when it rains “cats and dogs” (bad pun intended). She gallops through puddles yappin’ at her reflection and heroically plunges into the Gulf to rescue sticks.
She’s happiest when she’s wet and muddy.
But enough is enough! Storm skies, yes, can be dramatic…
But rain skies are just wet and boring. And few venture out to have their picture taken by an aspiring street photographer.
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