Holga One

The Don CeSar Hotel, taken with a new Holga.

One of Many

Just another condo crane <yawn>. On Beach Drive in St. Pete.

TBay Around the Net

Here's your Friday tour:

• Toucan Sam (Brian Cassella/photo)
  
• Dunedin Egret (alfuso/photo)
• Heron's Bad Hair Day (st0l1/photo)
  

Beach Drive

Along Beach Drive in St. Pete, at The Moon Under Water. Taken on a recent Saturday--a hot one, too--following our tour of A Taste of Pinellas, in nearby Vinoy Park.

TBay Around the Net

Here's your Friday tour of Tampa Bay photos:

• Cup of Fire, Thonotosassa (dulcelife/photo)
• Rocky Point architecture (dshalock/photo)
• Coney Island Grill, St. Pete (calebism/photo)
  

Almost Through

The move is almost complete, but...

Maybe It Will Return

...I've had to sell my boomerang table. It just didn't fit in the new digs. Too bad.

Prop

Inside a lifeguard stand at Picnic Island, where a propped palm frond that I didn't prop served as a handy photo prop.

Also, this blog's first wireless post.

Extra link: the Googled phrase "picnic island lifeguard" produced this article. Very unusual for the beach!

TB Around the Net

• SiM war on the beach (photo/Annik Rubens).
• Harbor lights from the downtown Marriott (photo/sherermaddness).
• Bradenton Beach sunset (photo/RebeccaSaylor).
• Lovely retro in Lakeland (photo/BEERandBONES).

Shadows and Light

One of the Ca d'Zan's many stained glass windows. In the background is Sarasota Bay, just beyond the veranda.

Also:

• More Ringling Mansion.
• Inside the Ca.

Rooftop View

A view of Pass-a-Grille, from the roof of the Hurricane.

Blech!

Moving.

With photos in reserve, I'll still be posting, albeit sporadically. After two weeks or so, posting should get back to normal, unless I can't find the box I packed my camera in.

Please bear with.

Thicket

Shot from the stairs of the observation tower at Myakka River State Park.

Termite Towers

A huge termite tent, shot this morning, at a 55+ condo on 83rd Avenue, between 4th and MLK.

Found Photo Series, No. 7

Well, as stated before, the Found Photo Series really has expanded to any image that can be put through a scanner. This is another New Orleans menu, found in an anitques store on Central Avenue in St. Pete.








Also:

• Found Photo Series, No. 6

• Found Photo Series, No. 5

• Found Photo Series, No. 4

Sponge Haulers

At the Sponge Docks in Tarpon Springs.

Squatter.

A month later, and the lizard living in my bathroom ceiling fan is still there. Before I knew what was there, I could hear something moving around in the bathroom ceiling. I denied hearing anything--I just didn't want to know. Then, I started to see dust on the toilet seat just about every morning. After removing the grill and dusting it, I could see the lizard sticking its head out from behind the fan unit. It still finds dust to kick out of the fan. Speaking of which, I only use the portable fan now.

Also:

• Previous Lizard Encounters
  

Scenecape No. 4: Vintage St. Pete

Clockwise, from top left, checker players at Williams Park, the St. Petersburg Alligator Farm, and Central Avenue at night. Vintage images pulled from postcards at eBay.

Also:

• Scenescape No. 3: Ybor
• Scenescape No. 2: Crescent Lake

Hairdresser on Fire & Fish Face

All's good working Morrissey into a post title. These masks are on display in the Circus Museum at the Ringling.

The Tampa Bay Area as depicted on one of the panels from an old nautical map of 1982. Interesting are the fish havens marked out by John's Pass toward the bottom of the map, as well as unfamiliar place names like "Turtecrawl Point," south of Bay Pines.