Kestrachern

The air was very hazy and the water was calm today,  obscuring the horizon, and giving the impression to the naked eye that ships/boats were floating in space.  It was really beautiful in a way that I could not capture as well as I wanted with my camera.     More practice. more practice….    

Some of the best times in San Francisco were at the Sunset parties that happened in the summer. Since moving to St. Petersburg, Florida I have found myself missing the family style gatherings.  In riding around the city I kept my eyes open for a suitable location. Today I found a gathering (more of a [...]

Moving to Gulfport I was amazed at the density of really cool, decorative, and intricate mailboxes and began a project to locate and document any artistic artistic expression that went beyond the stock USPS regulated box. I’ve not made any additional progress since last fall and realized that completing the project dovetails nicely with my theme of [...]

While riding from the Pier this morning I passed a pelican firmly engrossed in preening.  Sadly I missed the best shot while digging out the camera, it did some sort of weird move, opening its beak and then turning it inside out over its neck….  cool and gross simultaneously..  looking at the photos I did see the vicious teeth that [...]

Pictures (and spelling) forthcoming…. but here is the raw update. Wow! Part 2 had two sub excursions… both started out in the direction of The Pier and the first went north and the latter found a more southerly direction…. Taste of Pinellas was wrapping up for the day. so we avoided too many entanglements with [...]