Fish Tacos

In the parking lot of a sports bar, restaurant close by a beach we like to go to in Melbourne Beach, Florida.

I had to walk over to their colorful "sign" and take a couple of photos.

Lovely Evening

Nothing special, but a couple of photos from one evening when Lovely Wife and I were out for a drive.

The water there is the Indian River Lagoon, our portion of the the Intracoastal Waterway, and looking across the water to Melbourne, Florida.

Hi. I'm Rosie

Mye Daddee hasunt been feelins too awful well much lately.

He sed he don't got no new pikchurs to put on his blog.

I tole hims that he cud puuts one of me on there iffen he wants tu.

Well tu bee totuly honest, I wouldna put THAT pikchur on here but I noe this pikchur makes mye Daddee laff, so that iz okee-dokee. (I hates how my iyes arr squinny and my laygs looks crookid tu init.)

His bak hurtz, and heez been sick some tu and stade home frum werk yestidy blowin hiz noz. But me and the other poodulz like it wen Daddee stayz home cuz we get tu snugle up to him in the big bed or in hiz big chare that layz back reel for wen he reeds or wachuz TV.

I like tu git under the bed coverz with my noze stikkin owt, so I can breeth gud and be warm at thu sayme time.

Mye tu favorut thayngs iz cheeze and being held bye mye Mommuh or mye Daddee.

He givz me a byt of cheez evry mornin when he leevez fer werk.

Bye!

Black Eyed Susan

Well, that's what we always called them.

Sorry I haven't been posting or visiting. When I don't post and don't visit, just know that my life is probably sucking pretty bad.

Pain medicine only helps so much.

I'll be around when I can.

Sunset From Key Biscayne

In March of 1984 (24 years ago!!!) Lovely Wife and I came with her parents to South Florida from Louisiana. We were actually just engaged then (hence a trip with her parents for propriety) and were married a few months later in August.

Anyway, we watched, what was one of the most marvelous sunsets of my entire life one evening from the southern tip of Key Biscayne off the coast of Miami, Fla.

In 1996, when we moved to Palm Bay, where we now live, we made a trip to Key Biscayne and were totally dismayed to find that the whole southern tip of the island was scrubbed bare by hurricane Andrew years ago.

It is a totally beautiful place still, but the trees and things that were there then were all blown away, and the whole park was replanted in a completely different fashion, and only used native Florida plant.

I totally understand why they did that, and I think that's a good thing, but I was broken hearted, having built up in my mind that Lovely Wife and I would look and find the place we had watched that magical sunset all those years ago, only to find that the place is gone. The whole park is beautiful, but completely different now.

Oh well. Life moves on and things truly change.

I wrote a two-part blog post on my Least Significant Bits blog HERE and HERE about this ordeal. The posts have several "then and now" photos. You can go see them and just look at the pictures if you want, now that you know the bones of the story.

P.S. I STILL love me some Kodachrome! I love the way Kokachrome slides look.

Black and White #26

This old concrete block building containing a bait store for people heading to fish in the Atlantic Ocean. This place is less than a block from a public park and beach access.

Old, scruffy looking places like this are disappearing fast around this area; it's becoming more and more upscale, especially on prime properties like these two places out near the beach.

Kids

Kids are a joy, but they also have their moments where frustration reigns in the hearts of parents.

But occasionally, kids do something that their parents get on film, and these parents patiently wait, knowing that kids eventually turn into teenagers and young adults.

Nothing strikes fear in the hearts of teens like a good old dose of EMBARRASSMENT!

And the patient parent finally has revenge for the length of life shaved off due to worry and stress as well as gray hair as these captured moments from long ago come back to bite the unwary former child in the backside when teenagers have friends and boyfriends to try to impress.

This is a scan of a 35mm slide from around 1990 when we were living in Powder Springs, Georgia, a suburb northwest of Atlanta.

This one never fails to make me laugh, especially how Number Two Daughter popped her pacifier back in her mouth through the mouth hole in the paper sack mask. They were about 2 and 4 years old here.

Good times. Then AND now.