Florida wildlife

Today’s photos were taken locally at Egan’s Creek (marsh). There is a walkway along the creek and on this day we found Mr. Gator sunning himself (I guess it was a he – I didn’t do a gender check!)

The last few weeks have been busy, that is busier than normal, even for us. I had thought I’d be on the road this week heading to Houston to put the RV on a consignment lot. Well, a lot happened before I left. A local RV consignment lot made me an offer – cash – which I accepted but then they couldn’t come up with the cash. Realizing there were other possible opportunities, I contacted another RV dealer locally who was willing to take the unit on consignment with terms that were similar to the Texas folks. So while a local lot won’t have the potential buyer universe as the Texas lot, it was a whole lot easier to go local and avoid the drive. If it doesn’t work out, I can always do the Texas thing.

Our cold weather finally abated. The weather today and for the next few days at least will be in the low to mid-70’s with nothing in the way of frost or hard freeze. We were getting tired of the cold weather. The local weatherman said that Feb 16 is the record date for last freeze of the winter. So maybe we’re finished with cool for this season. Since it began getting cool-ish back before Thanksgiving, it’s about time for “winter” to be over. Of course now comes the heat (and hurricanes!).

We have moved a selection of prints into a local gallery – Slightly off Centre. The collection is different than we had in Dec / Jan. Some of the same pictures, but in larger sizes. The larger prints in the Dec / Jan show didn’t fit in with the new gallery display space. I also have a series of note-cards from local shots. We’ll see if those move.

Finally, we think the contractor will start on the repairs to our outside walls. They were damaged during FAY (storm) last year and it’s taken all this time to get the paperwork completed and collect the insurance. Hopefully the repairs will be completed before the next round of storms!

Since we won’t be traveling as extensively as in past years, I’ll cut back the blog posting(s) to monthly. I thought that every other week would be good, but even that tends to come around much too frequently. Plus I’m not sure anyone reads these when we’re not on the road. If no one is reading it now, then I probably should just cut it off and not worry about it until something changes.

I have found a way to collect and print blogs (in a book). Maybe I’ll do that so we’ll have a record / hard-copy for posterity. If so, and if it turns out decently, I’ll let you know so if you want, you could get a hard copy.