Sunday Afternoon

Sand...cooler...plastic cup...geek lit.

Moon Under Water

...at Clearwater Beach, before sunrise.

Architectural Features

Detail from the Snell Arcade building in St. Pete.

A view of the building from Central Avenue.

O

ZOMG! Someone's carved an O into this downtown fountain!
Where are my animated gif sirens? Developing...

NYT Screenshot

NFW!

Way!

Allendale Terrace

These adobe-style structures are on 38th Avenue N, between Haines Road and MLK Street. The avenue runs through the Allendale Terrace neighborhood, a high-ground section of St. Petersburg with large estate homes built in the 1920s and 1930s.

Bonus Fun Fact: the link above to the city's website reveals that before the currently-named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street N was Ninth Street, it was known as "Euclid Boulevard".

Kitch-end.

It's no longer news that the Kitchen on Central Avenue closed down. So, for documentary purposes, here's a Kitchen menu. As with the other photos here, click to enlarge.

grrrr-fiti

(Downtown St. Pete)

Stained Glass on 3

Stained glass pieces for sale on the third floor of the
Glass Plant Arcade, antiques sellers in St. Pete.

See Also:

• Afternoon Tea
  

Toppled

The stencil reads:
"It's a planet not an empire"
(Downtown St. Pete)

Tom Klong Flavour

At Cho-Lon Market, on US 19 south of 62nd Avenue in St. Petersburg.

P.O. Box Plein Air

The Open Air Post Office, downtown St. Petersburg.

Two-Day-Away Fay

Sunday, around noon, at the Gateway Mall Publix.

The Gumbo Republic

In front of the Wild Shrimp Company, next to Haslam's on Central Avenue.

Palm Berries

At the Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum in St. Pete.

Morocco on Central

A metal lantern and more adorn the storefront at Treasures of Morocco.

Worm Vents

(Dry Cleaner Roof,
Central Avenue, St. Pete)

Spanish Point, Set Two

A second set of photos taken in March at
Historic Spanish Point in Osprey

First set of posts here.



The Guptill House, a Florida pioneer-era home built in 1901. The house is built on a prehistoric archaic midden, the oldest one at Spanish Point. The midden, which is composed of shellfish, shell tools, pottery, and early artifacts, dates back to 3000 BC.



The boat yard.



Interior boat yard.



An replica of the sharpie sailboat, a flat-bottomed boat, built to navigate shallow bays. The boats were used during Florida's pioneer era to transport people and goods along the coast. It's worth pointing out from the Spanish Point brochure that the sharpie replica (foreground) was built by volunteers there using traditional tools, techniques, and materials.




Ferns on an aqueduct.

Sporty

This shirt with a delightful automobile grill motif
was spotted at the Gandy Goodwill.
I daresay, had it not been an XXL, I would have snapped this one up.

In the Coliseum

"The South's Finest Climate Controlled Ballroom"

(The Coliseum, St. Pete)

Condo Lifestyle Is Watching U

No one in St. Pete can escape the comparative gaze
of Big Condo Lifestyle.

(Building site fence screen, downtown St. Pete)

A Little East German Flava...

...for this, our Glorious Day of FISA.

Inflatable Shark w/ Beach

(Pier 60, Clearwater Beach)

Ybor Tracks

Tracks are a half-block in front of busy Seventh Avenue, but the photo looks anywhere remote -- it could use a tumbleweed or two.

North Shore Park

(North Shore Park, St. Pete)

Ephemera No. 2

Previously:

• Ephemera

Ybor Image

A discarded sign from 2007's Festival of the Moving Image, an annual Ybor film festival.

El Puerto Restaurant

(Nightclub courtyard, Ybor City)

Mama Said

T-Shirt, at Urban Outfitters in Ybor.

Note to Wingnuts: Shirt refers to an L.L. Cool J song, not scaaaaary Black people.

Stop a Sec

Tampa City Center. Where?

Ybor City Street Art

The County Guard

(Lifeguard stand, Sarasota County)

Spanish Point, Set One

Historic Spanish Point in Osprey, an outdoor museum combining archeology, pioneer history, and nature walk along Little Sarasota Bay...

...small ferns grow from the trunk of a tree leaning in front of one the pioneer cottages...

...a view looking up at the pergola in the Sunken Garden...

...and at the foot of the Sunken Garden...

...a storage area? -- concrete built into a hillside that looked like a bunker...

...fishing on Little Sarasota Bay...

...and the first entry for Osprey/Spanish Point on Flickr's "Stick Figures in Peril" photo pool.