Off to Seaside we go...3

And so it continues...

"... I love everything about motels. I can't help myself."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Bill Bryson (I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away)

Off to Seaside we go...2

The trip to Seaside was so much more to me this time than 'the beach'. Somehow cloth, texture, tactile...all worked into my feelings during the visit. I saw beautiful racks of clothing. Folds of material. Baskets full of twisted, colorful scarves. Shelves holding seashells and blue glass jars. Warm rows of hand crafted pottery. Baskets of candles. Wooden boxes overflowing with metal stars. It was all warm, comforting. So in this Seaside series, Off to Seaside We Go, you will see evidence of this.

The light and sheerness of this rack of blouses whispered to me. I was in awe.

"Today's woman likes to have a hint of lace showing under a white blouse..."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Barbara Lipton

Off to Seaside we go...1

I'll post our trip to Seaside. This is actually a combo of two trips...One weekend then the next. It was like we couldn't get enough of going up Hwy. 98 to Seaside.

I'm starting with this picture of the beach because it is just so Seaside.

"i thank god for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees & for the blue dreams of sky & for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."
¸.•*´¨`♥ E.E. Cummings

Joe Patti's

One of my favorite places to go in P'cola for seafood is Joe Patti's. It is a great place to get fresh seafood. Plus, it has a lovely dock.

"I take those dead fishes to market and I sell them for a good price. "
¸.•*´¨`♥ Amy Tan (Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel)

It all started with a mouse...{Part 1 of 2}

I've got so many photos to put up that I can't save them right now as a group. So I'm loading them as I finish them. You may wonder why it is out of order. Well, I don't edit in order :-) This first one is one from our shopping trip to Destin the last week of December.

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Walt Disney

This well played guitar was displayed on the wall at the Hard Rock Cafe in Destin. I wish I could remember what the plaque said. But, try as I might, I can't. I just remember that I loved the worn look of the guitar.

"...And the very next day / Bought a beat-up six-string in a secondhand store..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Foreigner, "Juke Box Heroes"



Back at my 'ranch', this was taken in my backyard. My backyard is not big. But the picture taking opportunities are plentiful. This iron chair was left at our house by the previous owner. I'm going to find a perfect spot for it this spring. And have pretty flowers surrounding it.

"...And no one heard at all Not even the chair..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Neil Diamond


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Shopping in Destin {Part 1 of 4}

The day after Christmas we found ourselves amongst the bargain shoppers. It was a fun day. If you like crowds. And bargains. And I don't mind either!

"Everything you can imagine is real." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Pablo Picasso




"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." ¸.•*´¨`♥ George Santayana, The Life of Reason



"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid." ¸.•*´¨`♥ J. R. R. Tolkien



"Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves." ¸.•*´¨`♥ William Davenant


"I went to a dance, Looking for romance..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Beach Boys "Spirit of America" album...Barbara Ann


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Shopping in Destin {Part 2 of 4}

"Seek the strongest color effect possible.. the content is of no importance." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Henri Matisse



A moment... father & son




Three creamy bowls with colorful insides




ZZ Top
$10,000



Micky Playing the washboard



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Shopping in Destin {Part 3 of 4}

"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Pooh's Little Instruction Book



"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Vincent van Gogh



"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Oscar Wilde




"All strong emotions fan the flames of creation" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Bill Jay


"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Vita Sackville-West


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Shopping in Destin {Part 4 of 4}

"Does it count as gossip, she said, if you just know those people would go & do something like that?" ¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople



"The 60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Abbie Hoffman



"Look in a mirror and one thing's sure; what we see is not who we are." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Richard Bach

A Rainy Day in St. Augustine {Part 3 of 4}

This is one of my favorite streets in St. Augustine. Aviles Street.

"If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Griff Niblack

My next photo taking adventure was in and out of shops.

"Lace is as much about the space between the threads as it is about the threads themselves."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Lori Howe

"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."
¸.•*´¨`♥ F. H. Bradley

“Sober, steadfast, and demure.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ John Milton


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A Rainy Day in St. Augustine {Part 4 of 4}

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Malcolm de Chazal

O'Steen's...for wonderful shrimp!

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Christopher Morley

I saw this in the "Life is Good" store window. And I instantly wanted it. It would make the PERFECT market basket. But, I didn't get it. Maybe one day! I really, really...really would like to get it.

Oh, basket of my dreams...

A walk {Part 1 of 3}

This day I thought it was going to rain. And it did. Good thing I brought my umbrella. First thing I was greeted with was a proud red rooster. Right downtown. He was very feisty looking. If a town has free roaming chickens, it is my kind of town.

“Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Charles W. Chesnutt

Then I took a little trip into the old drugstore. I got a little something special for someone a little special. These bottles caught my eye.

“It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Alexander Pope

Then I began walking. First up St. George Street where I saw some pretty flowers.

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Anne Morrow Lindbergh


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Spent most of the day in St. Auggie...yeaaaaaaa!

Last week I ordered a tripod bag so Saturday morning I went to the farmers market to pick it up (looks much like a yoga bag, only a bit longer). I had it made out of a durable material, and lined with a draw string at the top. It turned out perfect. Now I can carry my tripod, reasonably comfortably, slung over my shoulder. And it even has several outside pockets so, in theory, I can pack my pursey things and leave my purse at home. I'm all about traveling light. (Once again, in theory. In real life, for a weekend trip, I pack like I'm never coming back.) Anyway, it is a lovely paisley print in blues and yellows. Soft colors.

Here is a little bit of flowerie goodness for my northern based readers.

"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry Ward Beecher

"The price of wisdom is eternal thought."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Frank Birch

For the winter blahs...

I got to wandering down a beautiful path behind the market...and this is what I saw!

Along with warm & sunny palm fronds

There was a little spider web stretched across leaf to leaf, glimmering in the sun.

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners"
¸.•*´¨`♥ Virginia Woolf

Old basket

Four baskets in the shade

Then I went home. Later that night I went with D to town. He went to a basketball game at Flaggler College with some friends. I took this opportunity to go to Uptown Saturday Night. All I'm going to say is each shop served things. Grapes. Crackers. Cheese. Wine. Oh...did I day wine? Yes I did! It put a complete new spin on shopping!! Wonderful and fun! I ended up by Harry's so I took my little tipsy self in and sat down and enjoyed a banana's foster. Deee-lish-ous!

"Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Douglas Adams

"Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Grey Livingston

Copper bowl

Bowl of twine balls

"When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Christian D. Larson

"And you will find that you were blind, Until you saw these lights glowing in your nights."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Nico ~ Roses in the Snow

“Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the Bible.”
¸.•*´¨`♥ Day One


"Do what you like. Like what you do."
¸.•*´¨`♥ Life is Good