Cars, Jax Beach

First sour oranges, Roscoe

Garden, Roscoe

Monstera, Roscoe

Only lost a few young leaves to the frost.

Frost kill, Roscoe

This is the only Italian parsley that succumbed to the frosts we have had. Usually a very hardy herb.

Parking lines, Jax Beach

This is in a large shopping center. Since it was built, it has been expanded twice, disrupting parking and crosswalk patterns. Once a year, for aesthetic reasons, they paint the surface with a thin layer of black sealer, which fades very quickly, revealing the old markings. Thus, this.

Azaleas, Roscoe

The two hurricanes last Autumn stripped our azaleas of a lot of their leaves. They will be fine, but they look a bit naked. Interesting to see their skeleton.

Jax Beach

Jax Beach

Chairs, Jax Beach.

As you all know, I love the Holga lens. I recently got one for my Sony a6000. It works very well. But, I like to work in square format, and this lens does too. I guess all lenses work in an even circle, so a square will get the best part of the file. This lens barely covers the shorter dimension of the format and leaves large dark areas at either end. It is an interesting effect, but I prefer square and Sony, in their wisdom, will not let you shoot in a 1:1 ratio. Sigh.

From our dock.

Live oak, Jax Beach

We moved here 25 years ago and these were little trees then. They looked scrawny and not suited for the size of the parking lot. Now they add a lot to the feel of the center.

Hydrant and palms, Jax Beach

Even the hydrants get their own palm trees.

Clouds and water, ICW, Roscoe

My wife and I were sitting on the dock, reading, yesterday. The water was full of dead fish due to some really cold weather last week. Temperatures in the 20s Fahrenheit  here will kill off a bunch of sensitive species, especially catfish. Therefore we had a lot of opportunistic birds, mainly seagulls and pelicans, taking advantage of the free lunch. So, I had my camera along to prove that I am not a very good bird photographer, requires too much patience. Some clouds moved in, in a "buttermilk" pattern and the water rippled up to match it, thus, this picture.

New garden path.

I finally got around to doing this today. I have an overgrown part of my garden and underneath all of the vines weeds were a lot of these hexagonal pavers. So today I pulled them up with a forked hoe and carried them over to where they were really needed to make a path. They have a nice worn look that fits with my garden.