Pink Flamingos

We've yet to bow to some people's idea of proper Florida lawn decorations and installed plastic pink flamingos in our yard.

But I do think they're neat. These were in a gift shop in Orlando International Airport when we took a visitor to catch her plane.

There are always neat things to see and photograph in stores.

All In A Row

I took this a few weeks ago at a park in Titusville, Florida. We were walking along the sidewalk and I saw this and liked the look of the trees lined up into the distance, but I didn't notice the reflections on the water until I had the camera to my eye.

Nothin' special, more like a tourist shot actually, but I still like it. Palm trees and water are part of the world down here. Having grown up in Louisiana where they won't live, I'm still enamored of them, and love they way they look.

Sorry I've been remiss in my duties here, but I've been working long hours and weekends. I end up just going to bed early and have been ignoring my blogs.

Take care, folks. I'll be around to visit and comment when I can.

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building

NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is where the Apollo rockets and the shuttles were and are built, housed, and repaired until being driven out onto one of the launch pads.

The VAB is the fourth largest building in the world.

Didn't Get Blown Away

Tropical storm Fay practically stopped moving this past week right over Brevard County where we live, and dropped 15-20 inches of rain on us. We had no damage at our home, though many people in the county were flooded out of their homes.

We're fine, but I hate that so many had their homes flooded.

Some areas about ten miles north of us received 20-25 inches of rain.

Our power flickered off and back on a few times, but for the most part we had power and TV, so we did really well compared to many.

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Here are a couple of photos of the car that belongs with the wheel I showed in my most recent picture I posted.

Ron Jon Surf Shop is an institution in Cocoa Beach, Florida. It is a huge surf store and is a really fun place to go an walk around.

This is one of two customized cars out in front of the Ron Jon store.

Aside from these photos of this customized Chrysler PT Cruiser, I posted some shots of the exterior and interior of Ron Jon's in the bottom three photos on this post on my other blog last week, HERE.

If you are interested, I have posted several photos of a park in Titusville, Florida with monuments to three parts of the US space program, in my Sunday post on my other blog.

Fay

No work on Tuesday.

We don't get snow this far south, but we do occasionally get a "storm day" as an analog to some of y'all's "snow days."

We're supposed to get between 5 and 10 inches of rain.

I'm gonna sleep late, before the storm gets here.

Hiatus

Work crunch going on right now.

I've not had time to work on any new pics, and will do so when I can.

Gangster White Walls

We used to call these gangster white walls. A throw back to the 1920s and 1930s mobster cars that usually had the wide white wall tires that were in vogue at the time. Nothing to do with today's use of the word "gangsta" among the rap crowd.

You don't see them much any more, but this one was on a custom painted car on which this style fit perfectly.