March 28 2012
Have you ever heard of the skink? Neither did I until last Sunday when the Orlando Sentinel ran an article about how the development of a new sports complex is being delayed because skinks have been found under the sand. Apparently they are endangered. The skink looks like a very small snake. It’s about the […]
March 27 2012
I’ve had fun spending the past few days at Disney, and grandson, Evan, became an official Mouseketeer. I’m always impressed by how innovative Disney is and how they pay so much attention to detail. On this trip, two new things caught my attention. The resort outdoor swimming pool had a lift for handicapped people. Maybe […]
March 19 2012
March 16 2012
Is it just me, or does everyone marvel at how numbers are found in nature? Today I’m thinking about the number five.
March 15 2012
March 14 2012
Segways are all the rage on the space coast this year, so today Gary and I took a segway tour around Port Canaveral. The fact that our tour destination was Auddino’s Italian Bakery for cookies had nothing (well, almost nothing) to do with my enthusiasm. I’d been wanting to try riding a segway since I’d first […]
March 14 2012
It seems like in Rochester we have only one kind of seagull – white. Here in Florida, seagulls come in various combinations of white, gray, black and brown. Some quick internet research told me that there are 30 species of seagulls under the Laridae genus of birds, Laridae coming from the Greek for “ravenous seabird.” […]
March 11 2012
I went through quite a few cheap pedometers last year. Either they kept falling off, or they worked for a while and then either counted too many steps or not enough. So in January I was looking for a new way to count steps, and I found this pedometer in the Oprah magazine. If Oprah […]
March 09 2012
There’s a reason that Stephen King has sold millions of books. He’s a great writer. I just finished reading 11/22/63, and it’s wonderful. I’m sure I’ll be thinking about it for quite a while.Everyone should read this book, but especially those of us who still remember where we were that day. (I was in the […]
March 08 2012
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 These flowers struck me because they illustrate the Lenten theme of death and rebirth that I’ve been contemplating the last few weeks. What’s interesting about these 4 pictures is that they were all taken of the same bush on the same day. Where are you blooming today?