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Flickr tags: "Tampa" and "crash":

• Only here (Iccee/photo)
• Don't Be Skeered and Confused! (flesh mcfeisty/photo)
• Note the Florida park job (futsoulja/photo)

Before

...and after at http://www.beachwalkgulfport.com/. It'll cost $445K to live across the street from the Gulfport beach.

Winding Up

A circular stairway wraps to the top of the water tower at Crescent Lake.

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Green, green Tampa:

• Murky (Mark A Jones/photo)
• Skyway (The_Architect/photo)
• Cross-Processed Croquet (Todd Bates/photo)

Peking Picnic

Pagoda picnic shelters at the beach in Gulfport.

Sidewalk Stencil

A pair of sidewalk geckos give play to Gulfport's arty bent.

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What's been flying over St. Petersburg? (chemkook/You Tube)

Color Grab

While in Gulfport the other day, this vibrantly-colored building made me stop to take a shot. But once I looked at the photos from that day on my laptop, those vibrant colors ended up looking washed out. Now, my camera's not top of the line, but I still felt cheated. So I cheated, and got out Scott Kelby's "The Photoshop Channels Book." And maybe it's too much for the rest of you, and maybe I swung too far in the other direction. But I wanted my color back, dammit!

Ephemera

Fish Spread To Go

Ted Peters Famous Smoked Fish on Pasadena Avenue. It's one of the few remaining of its kind in Tampa Bay, making it as Old Florida as they come.

I'm partial to their burgers, which have the most perfect melted cheese I've ever seen on a burger.

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Tampa in Blue:

• Blue Awnings (andertho/photo)
• Blue Vein (ap&/photo)
• Ghost Hand (kbot=cool/photo)
  

Industrial Chic

The complimentary complementary neatly-piled stacks of stone...the glass block...and the weird oversized slats on the door... I guess these elements are why I took a photo of this doorway. That, and I'm still not sure if this is operational, or if the overgrown weeds in front indicate an abandoned building.

Peeking Through

A hole in a cloud lets the sun shine through during a sunset over Tampa Bay.

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This week, travel back in time to the Big Sombrero, where U2 plays under a giant McDonald's arch:

Merger

I-275 in St. Pete, north of the I-175 connection from downtown.