Fort Pickens, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore. It's the first place I visited when I came to Pensacola, way back when, and I fell in love with it. I've been back countless times and always find something new. The park grounds have wetlands, sugar-white beaches, piney scrubland and live oak forest. The sole access road is torn up in every ( Read more... )

I have phone calls to make, emails to write, photos to process, dishes to wash, a back-log of semi-important projects -- cleaning, craft, purging, organizing, all the usual (losing) battles against entropy. Need to make a supermarket run, clear the debris out of my car, change the sheets on my bed. Should be making an effort to connect with friends ( Read more... )

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My eyes and attention were trained on the computer database under my construction. Ho-hum. Suddenly someone yelled,

"SNOW!"

All heads snapped round to the windows. Yes! A snowflake! Another!

Sarah jumped to the phone, began stabbing in extension numbers. "It's snowing, it's snowing," she sing-songed to whomever answered.

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So cold!  It's freakin' 35 degrees. Right here in Florida. Tonight it's forecast to hit near-record low of 21 degrees with wind chill of 10. It's weather like this that chased me from the Northeast. Why move to Bodunk, FL, USA if I'm still going to freeze my ass off?! I could be home in NYC, watching the snow accumulate in grey, curbside mound and ( Read more... )

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Active fandoms:

Stargate SG-1 -- Jack and Daniel vie for supremacy in my heart. No matter, as long as I can love them both I'm happy. Jack is sexy, in his rangy, silver-haired (but mulletless, thank god!), oh-so-manly way; he's irreverent and in command. Daniel is just as sexy; he's also smart and sweet, with a ( Read more... )