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Florida cuts all library funding

Libraries are a critical part of any community. People visit the library not just to check out books but to go online. Check out movies. Read the paper. Research family or town genealogy. Look at maps. Story time! The library was very much a part of my life while growing up; [...]

About last night…

We had a heckuva sunset last night. I love the big ones, the dramatic productions that bathe my kitchen in a pinkish-purplish glow. I could never capture the magnitude and depth of such an event… don’t know why I keep trying…

Snow flurries

It’s 34 outside, 60 inside and no space heaters to be found. It’s pretty clear that none of us were prepared for cold weather. Thank goodness I have winter apparel and know how to layer. I’m wearing roughly half of my wardrobe at the moment. Weather Underground reports snow about a mile west [...]

Our Fall Foliage

Down here in south Florida these are our Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer leaves… but they’re the closest I can find -in color- to the wonderment taking place up north.

Raccoon attack in Polk county

Five raccoons surrounded and attacked 74 year old Lakeland, Florida resident Gretchen Whitted when she tried to shoo them from her back patio. Gretchen might need skin grafts. “She was filleted.” I’d be willing to bet at least two of the five have rabies….

Return of Sky King

Nah, not really. Just a skywriter. The pics aren’t great, but it is what it is… Nothing he wrote made any sense, but maybe that was the point. Beautiful day for it, anyway.

Snail

Portent

All the really cool stuff seems to occur in the western sky… thought for a moment last night that the funnel center right was actually a tornado, but no, just very concentrated rain. The water, unable to resist falling heavily from the clouds, is almost as pretty as the color… which of course I cannot capture [...]