Coffee Shop and Art Fair {Part 1 of 2}

Close to our new home is a little coffee shop...et Cafe. A nice little coffee shop. While drinking our coffee one weekend morning, we began talking to a girl named Kelsy. Click on Read more to, well, read more.

Kelsey "100 Strangers" #21 Read more...




"If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Denzel Washington


"Each flower is a soul opening out to nature." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Gerald De Nerval


"Coffee, Jamaican blend, double-strong, double-sweet." ¸.•*´¨`♥ O'Brien : Startrek DS9


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Coffee Shop and Art Fair {Part 2 of 2}

The next pictures are from the art fair that was in the park across the street.

Welcome and information...




"This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…" ¸.•*´¨`♥ F. Scott Fitzgerald



"Clothed in purple and fine linen." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Bible



All the pretty sparkles

Seafood Festival {Part 1 of 2}

The Pensacola Seafood Festival.

The 32nd annual Pensacola Seafood Festival, presented by the Fiesta of Five Flags, was held in historic Seville Square area in downtown Pensacola. This event has been consistently recognized as one of the Top 20 Event in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society.

Yes. We went. Right after work. In the HEAT of the day. And it was sweltering. We walked. We sweated. We looked at piles of fried seafood under heat lamps, and somehow, that sight didn't make us want to eat seafood. So we walked on and looked at all the artsy stands. If it hadn't been so dang hot, and I hadn't been so dang tired, it would of been different. And we wouldn't of found ourselves within the hour sitting in the sweet sweet air conditioning of Cactus Flower drinking sweet sweet iced tea, munching on chips and salsa waiting for our burrito. Not just any burrito.

Burrito - This burrito is called "el Jefe" (the boss) filled with your choice of meat, rice, beans, three cheeses, Santa Fe sauce, pico de gallo and crispy greens! Beef Pork Chicken or Vegetarian.

But I digress. Back to the Seafood Festival...

Fried Shrimp and all other forms of seafood




"Do not overcook this dish. Most seafoods...should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet)



"Watercolor, with all its subtle color and value gradations and its many welcome surprises, is the perfect medium for capturing mood." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ray Hendershot



"Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Seafood Festival {Part 2 of 2}

"Watson, you idiot. Somebody stole our tent ..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Sherlock Holmes


Not only did Pensacola have it's seafood festival, but there was a Taste of the Beach. The morning we went it was threatening rain, so we didn't stay long.

"One of the hallmarks of the baby boomer generation is that it doesn't live like the previous generation. It hasn't yet given up jeans and T-shirts or beer." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ron Klugman, SVP, Coors Brewing



"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ernest Hemingway

Saturday Morning at an Antique Shop {Post 1 of 3}

I love looking through antique stores. Occasionally buy something, but rarely. (My last purchase in St. Augustine was a totally awesome enameled iron casserole in the most lovely seaglass green...oval with scalloped edges and small darker green flowery decoration around the edge. So lovely. Bonus: when watching Julie and Julia I saw other pieces like it in Julia Child's kitchen! I will take a picture of it someday and post it.)

This trip was a little strange. First shop I stopped at they all but stripped searched me. Then told me my camera was too large. Hmmm. Large. According to them if it was smaller or a phone camera, it would be ok, but they apparently have a fear that people swoop upon there precious store and take pictures of their items with large cameras then, gasp, sell said item on ebay!! HORRORS!! Think about it. I don't understand stupid. Needless to say I looked at them like they grew horns said a few choice words and turned and left after gathering my purse out of lockers provided because God only knows we could never never carry a purse in their antique shop. Can you tell I was a little peeved? Thank goodness at the next antique shop I got a cordial greeting and a sweet smile. Here are the beautiful items I saw...the first is a very old doll buggy. Sorta creepy. Then other times sorta sweet.

"Every child begins the world again...." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Henry David Thoreau


"What becomes of the broken-hearted? They buy shoes" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Mimi Pond


"Boy, he is great! Jeez, that old fat man. Look at the way he moves: like a dancer... And those fingers, them chubby fingers. That stroke... it's like he's, uh, like he's playin' the violin or somethin'. " ¸.•*´¨`♥ Fast Eddie - The Hustler (1961)



"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music." ¸.•*´¨`♥ William Stafford


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Saturday Morning at an Antique Shop {Post 2 of 3}

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ernest Hemingway



"And, since sensible humans know that there are no such things as people four inches high, a gnome who doesn't want to be seen probably won't be seen..." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Terry Pratchett



"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Robert Bloch




"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Publilius Syrus


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Saturday Morning at an Antique Shop {Post 3 of 3}

"There never was a good war or a bad peace." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Benjamin Franklin



"The examined life is no picnic." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Robert Fulghum




"The table is the only place where one is never bored during the first hour." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)



"Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Siegfried Sassoon