Kathy & I returned to home base this past Monday, and I’m currently halfway through the nearly 4,000 photos from our month-long adventure. I’ll be posting galleries to my Adobe Portfolio site (keep checking for updates!) and expect to have some more stories to tell here on the blog in the near future. Hang in there – I’m working on it! 😉
Kathy & I are wrapping up a short week in south Florida, where we spent three days in various parts of Everglades National Park. I’ve got a ton of photos to process when I get home and we’ll be on a cruise ship next week. So my postings may be a little thin over the next week or so. Here are a few photos in the interim.
Spotted enroute to our cruise ship in Port Canaveral, Florida.
According to several sources, the tie to Elvis is a tenuous and indirect one. The song “Heartbreak Hotel” was co-written by songwriters Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden. Durden possibly did stay at this hotel, and was possibly inspired by a local newspaper article about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window. Although not this one.
I suppose if I had thought about it I would have realized that somewhere on this planet had to be a place that had palm tree nurseries. Today we found them!
Kathy & I are in south Florida and decided to head out to Biscayne National Park near Homestead. On our way there and back we passed dozens of palm tree nurseries, covering thousands of acres or more. I shot a few examples of them on the way, but it was amazing to see the sheer number of palm trees – of all sizes and types – being grown all in one place!
* Some sources suggest that the original song lyrics are “the land where the bong tree grows,” but this is the version I remember – from “The Owl & The Pussycat”
We’ve been home long enough. It’s getting cold here (by NC standards – sorry Monte and Jeff!) so we’re preparing to depart for warmer climes for a few weeks of “cruise ship hopping” and exploring the Everglades. I hope to post periodic “postcards” from our travels. Stay warm!
I never get tired of walking around Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Kathy & I spent two days there prior to our recent cruise on Celebrity Summit. Every time we go I photograph things I have seen before, plus there is always something new to find. For this visit, we concentrated on the two forts, Castillo San Cristobal and Castillo San Felipe del Morro, both part of the San Juan National Historic Site and managed by the U.S. National Park Service. So we were able to use our newly-acquired lifetime pass for admission and gather the appropriate stamps in Kathy’s Passport book. And of course we managed to wander around town a bit.
As I have been doing, I have posted a more complete collection of my photos from Old San Juan on my Adobe Portfolio site, with just a sample of some of the more “artsy” photos here. Take a look and tell me what you think!
Kathy & I recently returned from our most recent adventure, 14 days on the Celebrity Summit cruise ship out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. One of the downsides of cruising close to or during the holidays is that it compresses the holiday “to-do” list just a little. I added another 3500 photos to my inventory and am working my way through them. But I see the light at the end of the tunnel! 😉
Is this another case of alien abduction, or is there a hiker somewhere in the NC mountains missing a boot? 😉
Kathy & I paid a visit today to the so-called “Road to Nowhere” in Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Bryson City, NC. I wrote about this place in a previous post from last October (just a year ago? Wow!). We caught just a little bit of the end of fall color, before the bottom falls out of the thermometer in a few days. We’ll be back home to our toasty house and our gas fireplace by then! 😉
Raw coffee beans awaiting a turn in the roaster. Panacea Coffee House, Waynesville NC