To The Beach

Still trying to scan my my many thousands of 35mm slides from over the years.

This was taken of a little boy, Cory, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

The exposure was a bit over, but I've always liked this shot. It's like he represents every young, or young at heart person, heading for the joys of sand and sunshine.

Eunice

I scanned a few slides from times past, mostly family stuff.

I really liked this one of my paternal grandmother from 1985.

We called her "Mamaw Eunice."

She and I were very close. But then, she loved all of her grandkids like crazy, and we were all close to her.

The Whole Orange

Here's a shot of the whole orange from yesterday's post.

(Sorry about the technical difficulties if you happened to have come here earlier and saw that the photo was missing. Simple operator error on my part, and not double-checking my work.)

What The Heck?

Give up?

It's the upper portion of a 10ft diameter (3m) orange on the side of a local highway.

That's the stem and a leaf in green, and a part of the orange body too.

Storage Shed

This is a storage shed behind the local Disabled American Veterans building in Melbourne, Florida.

The shed is nothing special, but that late afternoon winter sun is.

The quality of the sunlight is really wintery, but it was about 75 F on Friday evening when I took this photo. Warm with a nice breeze. Darn near perfect.

Live Bait

I love this ramshackle looking old bait store in Melbourne Beach, Florida; hand written signs, American flag, and all. It's out close to a park on the beach, on what is becoming a more and more fancy area.

Places like this are disappearing very, very fast around here.

As this area of Florida gets more and more upscale, the property taxes usually get impossibly high for the small guys like this in the end and they sell their place, only to have the new owners bulldoze it and put up something else, with more glitz and glamor.

Fancy isn't necessarily an improvement.

Fifty Dollar Guitar

Happy New Year to all of you. God bless you and give you a great 2009

This is a photo I took early one morning of a cheap guitar that I bought from a coworker. I still play it and on this morning it was sitting in the early morning light coming into our living room.

The grain of the mahogany guitar body and it's cherry sunburst finish were enhanced by the warm morning sunlight.

The whole story of why I bought this guitar is over at my other blog today.