For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

Just a little shot from out the window at work today. This osprey was enjoying his dinner and had stopped for a break. You'll notice he still has his fish clutched in his claws.

Had to man the Girl Scout cookie booth...but did escape to grab a couple daytime shots. Ferris wheel by day... ...a couple of other rides. Love Bug the clown. She is a friend of ours. ...and what is a carnival with out silly souveniers? ...and my son Stacey coming down the Super Slide. ...canoes waiting by the side of the lake. ...and we came home to find this parade going across the street in front of our house. There was about 2 dozen of them. Happened to have the camera in the seat by me...so stopped and took a shot. They flew off when I had to take the corner and come on down the street.

My goodness...two posts in one day, and probably more before the day is over. I'm home on a break between the parade and our turn to run the Girl Scout cookie booth. Everone loves a hometown parade so here's a sampling from the Georgefest Parade this morning No parade is complete without ...Flag Corps ...a King and Queen Grand Bahia with Kissing Camels, Motorcycles and Funny Cars: Clowns and MORE clowns... Pretty Horses and wagons... ...interesting characters Red Hat ladies... Tricycle Brigade... Ronald McDonald... ...the High School Marching Band and you HAVE to have Baton Twirlers! Don't forget the balloons!!! ...and a last glance down the road after the parade is over and the crowds have left...

Been a long, long week with sick kids and a VERY tired me. Today was the first day I've slept late in I don't know how long. I could still use some more to catch up...but there are places to go and things to do. My youngest is selling Girl Scout cookies at a local festival called the George Fest. It is the longest running festival in Florida and the second longest running festival in the United States. There is always a carnival and days of boat races, parades and special events. This year makes 105 years. I'm headed out the door in a few to get pictures of the parade this morning. ...but first here are a couple from the carnival there last night. ...I also took time to play in the music store while my girls were taking their lessons. Here's a couple taken in the low lighting of the store..using only a monopod. I like the graininess of them when I converted them to black and white. ....another local festival is the Dragon Boat races that will take place in about...

I was going through some files that I hadn't worked up yet and found this one of my baby boy Sneakers that I took in B/W. If I had taken it in color, he wouldn't look any different. He is a beautiful black and silver gray.

Took a little drive on Sunday. Had to go to Oma's house to pick up Tori so we took the forest route. ...saw this boat and hot tub that the tornadoes dumped together on the side of the rode out in the middle of nowhere. Then just down the road a bit, is the end of the path of one of the tornadoes that went through on Groundhog's Day. It was a beautiful sunny day by mid afternoon and we pulled over at a little park on the St. Johns River so I could grab a couple of shots of the hundreds of seagulls that were on the river.

Had to take a few days break from my blog...not that I wanted to, but the the fact that I had been sick and hadn't caught up on my rest, FINALLY caught up with me. PLUS the fact that I had to prepare to work on Friday and Saturday in Clearwater at Stampfest (a rubberstamping/art type convention). I did manage to take out the camera a few times though and grab some shots. This is one from our crazy adventure on Friday. It is usually just a bit over two hours for us to get to Clearwater from where we live. So my mom, my oldest daughter and I drop the younger two kids off at school at 8 and hit the road. We are cruising nicely down I-75 when all of a sudden we hear a tire pop! POOF!! ACKKK!! Thankfully there is nice wide paved shoulders on the Interstate and we pull off to check the damage. Tire is hopeless...so I give AAA a call...cause this road is BUSY and I'm not standing on the side of it changing a tire with semis whipping past at over 70 miles an hour! After I descri...

Well they predicted severe weather this afternoon. Thankfully it moved thru fairly fast...but for a while the rain came down fast and hard! Here comes the rain... Rain...Rain... ...and more rain! ...and after the rain...beautiful GLORIOUS SUN!!!

...another gray and dreary day. I am OVER them already! More severe weather warning are expected within the next 24 hours. Our storm ravaged areas can't take much more....so hopefully things won't get too bad weather wise. Today as I was getting ready to leave the office an elementary school was warming up the band in the rotunda. I took a peak over and took a shot at the ones on the xylophones I have a couple Rose of Sharon bushes in my yard that have been there since we bought the house 14 years ago. This one has pretty white blooms and the other one has a bright pink bloom that looks totally different. The pink ones were looking all ragged...so I'll wait until new ones open up before I grab a shot of them...but here is the white one. While I was out prowling the yard looking for something to shoot....Momma decided to follow me around. Here she is exploring the trailer while she waits for me.