Skywatch Friday

When I look at this picture, I think of the very first line of this song:

Threatening

This is what our weather looks like right now on satellite:

and what it looks like outside:

Make a Wish

Saturday at the Park

Skywatch Friday

Preserved

I was driving home today and took a road that was recently opened near me. I was tickled pink to discover a new place to stomp around and take pictures:

Over 2000 acres between Durbin and Julington Creeks, there's 9 miles of shoreline between them. The info said there are bald eagles, osprey, gopher tortoise, bobcats, turkey, deer and many MANY different types of birds. I wasn't able to get out into it today, too rainy. But it looks promising, and I will be back!

Twofer:

Lunar Eclipse

After reading my My Dad’s blog post about the eclipse

I thought about the chorus to this song by Salvador:

Lord let me shine
Shine like the moon
A reflection of You
In all that I do
Lord let me be
A light for Your truth
Light of the world, I wanna be used
To shine for You

by Salvador
Album: Dismiss The Mystery (2006)

Excellent song :)

Happy Anniversary

9 years ago today, I married my best friend :)

Glass Menagerie

Mileage

Had to document this, we're notorious for swapping vehicles after a short time. This is the first time I've owned one long enough to put 100k miles on it! :)

Washington Oaks Gardens

We spent Saturday afternoon together, just Rory and me, to celebrate Valentine's and our Anniversary, which is on the 20th. We went down South a little ways to a State Park, "Washington Oaks Gardens". It is a really beautiful place with an interesting history, which you can read more about Here

The park is on both sides of AIA near Marineland. One side is the visitor's center and formal gardens, situated on the Matanzas River.

I was standing on the bank of the river, taking some pics when I heard a rustling by my left foot. I looked down, and there he was - about 6 inches from my shoe. FC, you would have been SO proud, I didn't even scream. I moved away, (rather quickly) and shooed him. He kind of looked at me with a mild annoyance, and then proceeded to try and climb this tree:

Some park patrons noticed me taking pictures of him, and insisted he was an indigo. Correct me if I'm wrong, FC, but I believe he's just a black snake. Indigos don't have white chins, do they? Anyway, I tried to tell them he wasn't an indigo, but they knew for sure, so I just gave up and agreed with them :) Washington Oaks is a lot of things, and one of them is SNAKE HEAVEN. We saw snakes everywhere we walked - sunning in the weeds, swimming in the ponds. I think this one is a Florida banded water snake:

After we saw all there was to see, we went to the beach side. It's a beautiful place.

There were some very interesting coquina rock formations. :)

We sat on the rocks and watched

The moon come up...

and the sun go down.

I am looking forward to going back when everything is in bloom. After the park, we went to dinner at a fairly new restaurant near us. It was AMAZING! All in all, a great day :)

I took so many pictures, I filled up my 2gb card. You can see more Here :)