Wednesday, January 12, 2011

A great pair of Sarasota legs!

There I was, shivering in the winter wind wearing only a wool suit jacket when I was accosted by these great looking pair of legs! What else could a girl do but stop and gawk? and whip out the camera for some fun fiddling? It was a sunny afternoon with nice contrast and my belly was full from a yummy lunch. I could ignore the cold for a five minute photo shoot! and those legs were waiting and so willing...

The sculpture sits in a square facing the Selby Public Library with a Starbucks on the other corner which I have been known to haunt on occasion.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

It's beginning to look a lot like winter

Like the scavenger birds on the beach, I was busy poking my camera in the grasses and other debris left behind on the beach in winter. I came upon this expired horseshoe crab and was fascinated by a close-up. You can thank me for excluding the smell. And no I didn't salt it - that is sand!


This is a magnified picture of the tidal debris and the sand really does look like salt here. There are grasses but also egg sacs and other soggy, smelly stuff I don't care to identify. And even though it smells rank, the jumble intrigues me. The beach has its seasons and winter brings storms that pull up live shells and dump them at the tide change and clumps of jumbled grasses that slowly get buried by sand.