Beach Bums

I've been doing lots of driving to meetings and not enough sightseeing to post. So I took the camera on one of our morning beach walks. Needless to say, we were not the first there!

Colorful Canoe

Florida seems to a have a free-spirited nature when it comes to colors, as this canoe demonstrates. And they surely are not limited to canoes. I have seen quite a few distinctly designed automobiles as well!

Salt Rock on Indian Shores

It was our anniversary on Saturday and we decided to take our neighbor's suggestion and dine at the Salt Rock Grill in Indian Shores. We had a lovely evening. A little champagne, a view of the water and a lot of fabulous seafood made it easy to have fun.







I'm just left wondering about the fellow making funny faces behind me...

Beach Beacon

So we get the Beach Beacon newspaper delivered to our house every Wednesday and this is the second or third time I've seen this guy's advertisement. I found it a little incredible!

Mailboxes

In this neck of Florida, it's not the doors that are works of art, it's the mailboxes! Not only do I see Pelicans as mailboxes, I have actually watched them from our dock as they cruise over the water and then dive in for a fish. One pelican was so close I could see the fish wiggling inside its pouch!

Beachy morning

Yesterday Rich and I discovered that the public beach access to the gulf was only 4 very-walkable blocks away from our house. Yipee!! So of course I had to go swimming. Warm water and shallow for quite a distance. Then this morning when the sun was rising I took a walk and found some fun birds enjoying the water and sand.

Tampa Turnover

Moving from Prague to hotels for a month to Tampa took more out of me than I expected. I would wake up in hotels and have to take a few moments to figure out where I was - and most importantly where the bathroom was. Now I get to wake up and check out this view. Instantly soothing it is!


The house we are renting is lovely and we've discovered wonderful coffee. We'll see if the organic eggs we bought live up to Prague's free-range, orange yolked wonders. Our landlord's decorating tastes/abilities are in question however. Just look at how she painted this brand new dock. Hmmm.