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Sunken Gardens

February 18, 2009
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(Note: all the individual pictures in this post link to larger images in Flickr; just click on the smaller images you see here.) CHILEAN FLAMINGOS A BOTANICAL EXPERIENCE That’s the “tag line” for the St. Petersburg Sunken Gardens. It’s well chosen. The afternoon I first visited the St. Petersburg Sunken gardens, was following a particularly [...]

Arts and Crafts

February 4, 2009

click here for larger image FRAN SIMS BEADED HANGING (SHOWN HORIZONTALLY) Arts & Crafts Whenever I’ve felt like “running away from home” (from responsibilities, from humdrum, grinding routine) I’ve fantasized about quitting all jobs and surviving by selling homemade art (water colors, photos, prints, whatever) along the side of the road. So far, I’ve not [...]

Lake Maggiore Park

January 28, 2009

click here for larger image WILDLIFE AT LAKE MAGGIORE   In an earlier post on St. Pete’s Lassing Park, I mentioned that I’d be covering more of my favorite city parks. Today’s post has some pictures and information about one of the largest of these parks, Lake Maggiore Park. This hiking site has some details [...]

Dubai Long Pier

January 21, 2009
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click here for larger image LONG PIER TACKLE SHACK I’ve got a love affair with piers. Ever since I was a child visiting my father’s family down in southern Mississippi and fishing off the long pier in Biloxi (a pier destroyed many hurricanes ago), I’m always thrilled by the sensation of walking way out above [...]

Spinners Rooftop Revolving Restaurant

January 17, 2009

click here for larger image GRAND PLAZA HOTEL Most locals have their favorite beach hotels and/or beach cottages they like to escape to occasionally for a few nights’ stay, even if they live within just a few minutes of the beach. One such place, for me, is the Grand Plaza Hotel (5250 Gulf Blvd., St. [...]

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