Our first day at the beach in Florida
Well...we didn't make it to the beach til mid-afternoon on that first day, Jan. 22nd. First of all, Amy and I took a little walk because I was trying to find a nearby nature place called the Lemon Bay Conservancy and I'm looking it up on google maps right now and people have posted pictures of it, with a pond or something and suddenly I can't find the pictures anymore and when you zoom into the address it's just a building with a sign that says "lemon Bay Conservancy," which is maybe why I couldn't find it. Anyway it wasn't a long walk from our place, and then we took a trip to the nearby...
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sunken gardens
Ok, so...things don't seem so great right now. i've had a cold with a horrible cough for over a week now. plus, of course, there's the coronavirus spreading rapidly around the world...i feel that in...
thurs feb 20th – one more run by the water
We didn't have to check out of our Air B&B until noon so i was able to go for one more great run. This time i spotted just one lone Ibis strolling around somebody's yard. I saw so many of these...
Back to the beach!
Wed. afternoon, Feb. 19th, we made it to the beach a half-hour earlier than the day before, at about ten til five. More time to relax/walk on the beach before the sun set. more ibis. Ibis plus a...
Downtown St. Petersburg
Wednesday, Feb. 19th - The morning started out with another good run. i didn't take as many photos, except i took a bunch of these birds when i first set out. Jim said they're Ibis. Just hanging out...
Pass-A-Grille Beach!
I wanted to see the sun set over an actual beach so we chose the Pass-A-Grille Beach as our final destination on Tues. Feb. 18th. I'd read that it was uncrowded, very important to me, and i also...
feb. 18th, 2020, more florida sunshine
I'm sitting here in my jammies on wednesday march 11th, down with yet another cold. jeesh, that's two of them this winter, unless i had one even earlier and forgot about it. plus there's the...
a scenic run on our second day in florida…
instead of culling and deleting and not posting all the photos from our trip to Florida, here's a bunch from my second run, on Tuesday Feb.18th, 2020. Because i'd run (slowly jogged) down such a...
wrapping up day one in florida
I feel like we left the beach area in Gulfport after lunching and having an afternoon cocktail, but not sure what we did. we came back to the beach to see the sunset. Here's the famous Don Cesar...
the first part of our first full day in florida…
...and it was a very full day, indeed. i've broken it up into two parts so you won't be burdened with trying to read/watch all of it at once. the day started out with a pretty good run. because i'd...