Thursday, November 30, 2017

I was quite surprised to see pigeons on the beach, and I don't think the gulls were all that happy about it.  As usual, though, the pigeons could have cared less what the gulls were thinking.  (Film)



Friday, November 24, 2017

Here are two more from Anastasia SP a few days ago.  There used to be significant dunes here.  What's left is being added to naturally by some of the same forces that washed away what had been there.  (MF film, #15 deep yellow filter)




Tuesday, November 21, 2017

I've been somewhat visually exhausted back here in Florida since our visit 'home' to the northeast.  But, during the last two days, I've made a concerted effort to revisit some of my favorite places to photograph. These images are the fruit of that quest.  The first two are from Big Talbot Island SP on a blustery day that chilled me to the core. The other two are from Anastasia SP in St. Augustine.  I suspect the former site became richer in skeletal trees resting on the sand, and the latter site a lot poorer with the deterioration of dunes due to our recent hurricane.  (MF Film, #15 filter)










Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Sometimes the most interesting thing on a given day is in one's own backyard.  Our neighbor keeps a Meyer lemon tree just beside our driveway, and always invites us to help ourselves to the fruit.  Meyer lemons were introduced to this country from China in 1908 by Frank Meyer, an employee of the US Department of Agriculture. A Meyer lemon is a cross between a true lemon and another citrus fruit (either a regular or Mandarin orange). They're larger than common lemons, a bit less tart, and apparently rather hardy.  Here are three views.  (MF Film)