"Closed Between Lunch and Dinner"--
Dori Thai Restaurant, St. Pete Beach.

Contemporary art over St. Petersburg: At Project Creo's Tide to the Vernacular exhibit.

Mural detail at La Union Marti-Maceo
in Ybor City.

Photo for the weekend and a barrel of rum: Pirate Ship, John's Pass.

Haslam's Bookstore Cat momentarily distracted from batting around a plastic bottle cap.

The Florida International Museum (Maas Brothers) before and after demolition. Photo at top was taken in February from the Baywalk garage. People still fondly remember the department store, but the contractor takes the demolition in stride.

SunTrust Financial Centre, downtown Tampa.

Along the seawall at Coffee Pot Bayou. 

Downtown Tampa's tinted sky. 

Found Photo Series
No. 1
Found in a Central Avenue antiques store.

Evening thunderstorm over the bay and visible from 4th Street. The unnatural light in the bottom right corner is from a street lamp. 

At the Curtis Hixon Parking Garage, below the Tampa Museum of Art. 

Bank of America Tower, Four Views.

Overhead lighting sitting behind an Office Depot. 

Did the tide somehow wash this crab up on the fishing pier?  

High tide rushes in toward the Gandy Bridge. 

Hurricane Dennis Closeout Sale

Gandy Beach, nearly two hours after Dennis makes landfall in the Panhandle.

An umbrella abandoned shortly after the outer bands of Dennis blew through. 

Winds from Dennis push water over the base of a Gandy Bridge pier, as high tide approaches on Sunday afternoon. 

Dennis

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Outer bands of Dennis arrived Friday evening while the eye was still in Cuba. The rain from the bands was so heavy, traffic on the way home dropped to 20 mph.