Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Cape Coral

Cape Coral
Florida
February 24- 28, 2018


I went to visit my friends Jaye and Dom.  They were renting a house for three months and loving every minute of it.  Dom had invited his good friend, Tom,  to join us.  And when I told Tom that I thought this must be "Asshole Buddies" week, he was offended that I called him an asshole. He just didn't seem to understand that I meant this as a compliment.  He is such an asshole.


  • We swam in the pool every day.
  • There were no expectations to hurry or fill our days with lots of activities.
  • No one watched TV.
  • I didn't bring my laptop with me on this vacation.
  • Dom made a drink of cranberry juice, pineapple juice and coconut rum and it was delicious and too easy to drink.
  • Jaye and I went to the Blue Bell Brewery and the beers were delicious.
  • We went on a sunset cruise and hung with dolphins, ibis and white pelicans.
  • Two burrowing owls were nesting in the neighborhood.
  • The other three went for a long walk in the morning.  I slept in.
  • We grilled at home one night.
  • They also sat in the sun all day.  I sat in the shade.
  • We ate at two different seafood restaurants for dinner.
  • Jaye and I went to see Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri.
  • I read Anne Morrow Lindberg's book Gifts From The Sea.
  • The guys went to spring training baseball games.  I am glad we didn't have to go with them.Dom had Sweet Water IPA in the refrigerator. And it was a delicious beer.

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Pelicans




Pelicans
Key West, FL
January 2013

It is day three of my week at the Keys with my friends. We go for a walk every day and my friends are annoyed at me for two reasons: (1) I walk so much slower than they do and (2) I stop a lot to take photos, lots of photos.

Dom asks me, "how many photos are you going to take of those pelicans?  How many do you have already? Don't you have enough?"

While he may have a point, I know I have not yet captured the moment that is going to wow the editors of National Geographic Magazine. And so I must continue, even at the cost of criticism from my friends.