Monday, August 16, 2010

Mellow Yellow Monday - Bird's Eye View


We go to the summer beach runs on Tuesday evenings. Hundreds of people show up for this event, and most are families. It is geared towards kids. Looking at this you wouldn't think it was so crowded at the beach at this time...

He's just hanging out watching everything...even the storm clouds that roll in that time of day! This has been added to Mellow Yellow Monday #82


Friday, August 13, 2010

Siesta Beach - Sky Watch - Friday

Every Tuesday in the summers they hold a fun run for families. They hold in the lat afternoon-early evening so people are off work and in is a little cooler....

...which is nice it give the family a chance to do things together, run, swim and meet with friends.
The only problem is... that is when the storms usually roll in...



The 1 mile run starts a 6:30 for the kids and not so serious runners. Then at 7:00 they hold a run that will take you to the "wall" which is at the end of Crescent Beach and back, about 5K. Some runs will add swimming or make take you over some soft sand for a cross country-like run. Some will add a little agility obstacles, like run over a picnic table and jump in a burlap sack. It was only rained out once this summer...

...but I have been able to capture many black skies and ominous clouds come rolling in. This one didn't have any lightning, and we were in the car driving off the key before the rain hit.

This is linked to SkyWatch Friday check out more skies form everywhere!


Have a great weekend!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Palms - Theme Thursday

Theme Thursday this week is -Palm- You just said the magic word! I love palms!


Many views of palms...

Many kinds of palms...

Many times of day...

Many locations...

They always seems to beg you to relax...

Just sitting there looking so peaceful (until a hurricane hits).

Some so tall and majestic! I even used this one for one of my blog buttons! Funny how they just want their picture taken, weather it's tall or short, big or small!



See Theme Thursday for many more versions of palms!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Dolphin Fountain - Watery Wednesday!

The fountains are in Sarasota Bay Front Park. You walk past the kiddy fountains all the way to the end...
Downtown Sarasota in the background, and the marina. It's always a nice day to walk the park and dogs are welcome here...

It seems when my sister is visiting it's never working...
We've been several times since and it's always running....and I always have to get a pic!

He's getting a birds eye view!


If you enjoy water photos please make time to check out Watery Wednesday 100th post

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Weird Yellow Color Sky - same cactus -

Last Wednesday the sky was the strangest color yellow/orangey. I had to go out and take some photos. So strange they even mentioned it on the local news. I think it was like that all the way up to Tampa area too.
Here are the same cactus last week that I shot for Skywatch Friday last week.
It made everything look so weird, our pool looked green in with the blue water and yellow sky!
Doesn't it look like this is an old photo that faded?

Strangely enough we didn't get any rain from it...maybe just a few drops. Usually you think this is right before a big storm is coming.

I took a photo of the same cacti that was in last weeks Skywatch Friday. I guess we have a lot of interesting skies to watch here in Florida! This was entered in the blog roll for Skywatch Friday
To see many more fantastic skies from all over the world check Skywatch they are all amazing!


Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Theme Thursday - Brown

I wanted to add some more of my photos to this blog. It seems most of my work is going into my food blog, The Tiny Skillet so I started checking out some photo theme websites. I have been enjoying Watery Wednesdays, because of all the water around here you can help but get water pictures. Then Skywatch Fridays, again...in Florida they sure have some interesting skies.
Today I am again joining Theme Thursday and today's theme is brown. Of course most of the brown in my photos are in my food!

Spice cake chocolate sauce...


Apple crumble...

chocoalte chunck cookies...

Snacking tofu with ponzu dipping sauce....


Parmesan chicken tenders...

For more photos check out Theme Thursday and for the recipes the chicken tenders can be found on this site or for the rest find them on The Tiny Skillet , Enjoy!

Manatee - Watery Wednesday



I have a lot of watery photos living Sarasota, Florida. We also have a great marine laboratory located here. Where they study, monitor, and research all sorts of marine life. There is also a hospital for marine life, where they nurse them back to health and release them back into the wild if possible. It is hard to get a photo of Manatees in the wild, although I've seen many usually you just get to see their nose pop up when they breathe, and sometimes the tail will break the water. I did another post with more photos that I took while I was at Mote Marine you can check here to see more.

If you would like to see some great watery photos check at Watery Wednesday for photos from all around the world. Join in if you have some yourself!