No snow . . .
Well, the paper said this morning that Florida and Hawaii are the only two states without snow this winter. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t cold, cold, cold here!
Last night the weather said it was going to be a hard freeze in our area, so I loaded all my orchids back in the wagon and brought them on the porch and even covered them up. This morning our thermometer said it was 35 here! Inland is where they got the hard freeze - in the 20s. Being so close to the water here, we are about 10 degrees warmer than they are.
I wasn’t going to go on a walk until later, but I checked the tides and low tide was about 10:00 at DeSoto. I ate a bowl of hot oatmeal and drank a couple cups of coffee. By then the sun was shining brightly (still windy) and the temperature had climbed to 38. Ha!
Earmuffs on, three layers of clothes, and I headed out. I decided to just take my Lumix today. I wanted to keep my hands in my pockets most of the time and not carry a bigger camera.
The tide WAS way out and I saw some neat stuff.
Here’s my little buddy. He stayed with me the whole time as I walked in and out along the shore. Every time I turned around, he wasn’t more than a few feet away from me.
I took this picture at near ground level. It is a 20 foot long pipe that is usually underwater when the tide is in . . .
Mottled Purse Crab . . .
I found this half of a Pen Shell. When I lifted it up there was an indentation left in the sand and a shadow --- a three-way . . .
Seaweed Driftwood ~~ this is usually so far out in the water, I never have seen the whole thing before, only the very tip of it. Today I walked right up to it . . .
Shadows reaching towards the water . . .
A big clam buried with its hinge upward. I think it was still alive . . .
I have never seen anything like this. I reached down and touched it and it moved. It was all soft on the outside. It almost looked like it was wrapped around a shell or the shell was inside. It moved quite a bit while I stood there.
A large piece of driftwood ~~ about six feet long. I turned it over and got a mirror image in the sand.
More photos at ground level . . . .
I had to laugh at these three ladies. They were all bundled up, rubber boots and carrying orange plastic pumpkins. I guess they were shelling.
Bye-bye little buddy . . . stay warm!
Last night the weather said it was going to be a hard freeze in our area, so I loaded all my orchids back in the wagon and brought them on the porch and even covered them up. This morning our thermometer said it was 35 here! Inland is where they got the hard freeze - in the 20s. Being so close to the water here, we are about 10 degrees warmer than they are.
I wasn’t going to go on a walk until later, but I checked the tides and low tide was about 10:00 at DeSoto. I ate a bowl of hot oatmeal and drank a couple cups of coffee. By then the sun was shining brightly (still windy) and the temperature had climbed to 38. Ha!
Earmuffs on, three layers of clothes, and I headed out. I decided to just take my Lumix today. I wanted to keep my hands in my pockets most of the time and not carry a bigger camera.
The tide WAS way out and I saw some neat stuff.
Here’s my little buddy. He stayed with me the whole time as I walked in and out along the shore. Every time I turned around, he wasn’t more than a few feet away from me.
I took this picture at near ground level. It is a 20 foot long pipe that is usually underwater when the tide is in . . .
Mottled Purse Crab . . .
I found this half of a Pen Shell. When I lifted it up there was an indentation left in the sand and a shadow --- a three-way . . .
Seaweed Driftwood ~~ this is usually so far out in the water, I never have seen the whole thing before, only the very tip of it. Today I walked right up to it . . .
Shadows reaching towards the water . . .
A big clam buried with its hinge upward. I think it was still alive . . .
I have never seen anything like this. I reached down and touched it and it moved. It was all soft on the outside. It almost looked like it was wrapped around a shell or the shell was inside. It moved quite a bit while I stood there.
A large piece of driftwood ~~ about six feet long. I turned it over and got a mirror image in the sand.
More photos at ground level . . . .
I had to laugh at these three ladies. They were all bundled up, rubber boots and carrying orange plastic pumpkins. I guess they were shelling.
Bye-bye little buddy . . . stay warm!