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[BobbyBoomer]

Very nice. There is almost never a need to to send full sized photos to a website. Most people are viewing them on mobile devices or lower resolution displays anyway.

Good luck with the tech today.

Tech number 4 (counting the original phone tech) turned it over to Cable Repair this morning and at 8:00 PM the cable repairman just left, saying it should be OK now.

We live in a difficult place for utilities. There is a long 15+ mile road running on the west side of a 2 mile wide lagoon. Actually the east coast of the Florida mainland. To the east of that is a barrier island and then the ocean. To the west is a wetlands preserve. In between the two are a string of houses, mostly on 25-50 acre lots. There are about 4 short dead end streets where before zoning people subdivided their lots. I'm on a half acre in a fishing cottage built in 1950, about 200ft from the water. I got it at a steal price when the market hit a low. I'm also 35 feet above sea level on top of an ancient sand dune.

We affectionately call it the "slave quarters" because our homes are so tiny compared to the mansions that line the road.

It's a beautiful place to live, but (1) because of the salt water, the phone cable (and everything else) corrodes a lot and (2) because with the huge lots and virtually no side streets, the phone company doesn't pass many homes per mile, so replacing the cable would take decades to pay for itself. (It's been needed over 20 years now). Since corporations run on quarterly earnings reports, they don't want to put that much money into replacing what should have been replaced years ago, so they just keep patching it up again and again and again and again and again.

Ah, the price of living in almost paradise.

Here's another picture of the same Woodstork. I take plenty of long and medium shots before i get the close ups, just in case they get spooked and flee.

Not my house but my neighborhood

My neighborhood from the air.

Because of the water, we live in a micro-climate where it's typically a bit cooler in the summertime and a bit warmer in the winter. I've seen a lot of wildlife passing though my yard through the years, bobcats, fox, coyote, Sandhill cranes, rabbits, snakes, racoons, opossums, and so on.

It's worth the price of lousy phone service to live in such a beautiful area.

 

[rasmith1959]

Roy

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[giradman]

Tech number 4 (counting the original phone tech) turned it over to Cable Repair this morning and at 8:00 PM the cable repairman just left, saying it should be OK now...............

We live in a difficult place for utilities. There is a long 15+ mile road running on the west side of a 2 mile wide lagoon. Actually the east coast of the Florida mainland.

It's worth the price of lousy phone service to live in such a beautiful area.

Hey Bob - now I'm pretty familiar w/ the east coast of Florida (and we've exchanged some posts, especially in my travelogue on Ft. Lauderdale), but just trying to get a better impression of your location - I dropped a few red pins on 'Indian River' and seems to be about half way between Palm Beach & the Kennedy Space Ctr (map attached) - correct?

I've been to the space center a few times and when my in-laws lived in Delray Beach, Susan & I used to drive up to Jupiter to lunch at a restaurant we liked and to also visit the state park there and do a boat ride looking for manatees - never saw one! Dave
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[BobbyBoomer]

Tech number 4 (counting the original phone tech) turned it over to Cable Repair this morning and at 8:00 PM the cable repairman just left, saying it should be OK now. <...snip...>
It's worth the price of lousy phone service to live in such a beautiful area.

It's still going off and on there will be another here in the morning

 

[BobbyBoomer]

Hey Bob - now I'm pretty familiar w/ the east coast of Florida (and we've exchanged some posts, especially in my travelogue on Ft. Lauderdale), but just trying to get a better impression of your location - I dropped a few red pins on 'Indian River' and seems to be about half way between Palm Beach & the Kennedy Space Ctr (map attached) - correct?

I've been to the space center a few times and when my in-laws lived in Delray Beach, Susan & I used to drive up to Jupiter to lunch at a restaurant we liked and to also visit the state park there and do a boat ride looking for manatees - never saw one! Dave
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Closer to Palm Beach. About 50 m north. Unincorporated county. It used to be a non-incorporated town called Suzanna, now it has no name.

Your pins are close, just a little too far north. Good detective work!

The picture is a bit overexposed and from a phone.

I grew up in Pompano Beach and moved up here when it got too crowded down there. It's getting crowded here too, but I'm not moving any further North. I'm at the northernmost place where tropical vegetation grows in the state.

 

[twerppoet]

I've been trying to get a decent picture of this Muscovy Duck for about four days. I finally got this one.

And to top it off, a couple of great blue herons and a black capped night heron decided to standstill for me as well.

It was a pretty good day for pictures.

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[BobbyBoomer]

Nice shots, and the black-crowned night heron is out in the daytime - it was a good day for pictures.

 

[J. A.]

iPhone (1) versus DSLR (2)
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All of them not enhanced

 

[J. A.]

Two other shots with my Canon

The second one is cropped.

 

[The OB]

Two other shots with my Canon
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The second one is cropped.

I like these two shots with the Canon, Johanna. Difficult to choose between the two
Andrew

 

[J. A.]

I like these two shots with the Canon, Johanna. Difficult to choose between the two
Andrew

Thank you, Andrew!
No idea which one's better. I like both the same.

 

[BobbyBoomer]

They're all nice Johanna, but the last one (cropped) really stunned me. Well done!!!

The white flowers, are they morning glories?

We have something similar, related to morning glories that is called a moon flower. In the right conditions, it opens in about 5 seconds at dusk.

 

[J. A.]

They're all nice Johanna, but the last one (cropped) really stunned me. Well done!!!

The white flowers, are they morning glories?

We have something similar, related to morning glories that is called a moon flower. In the right conditions, it opens in about 5 seconds at dusk.

Thank you!

The white flowers are called "larger bindweed". It's a climbing plant. While it has nice flowers, it's considered a noxious weed, because of it's rapid growth.

 

[scifan57]

The new Shoppers Drug Mart under construction in the parking lot of the store I work in.

 

[BobbyBoomer]

Thank you!

The white flowers are called "larger bindweed". It's a climbing plant. While it has nice flowers, it's considered a noxious weed, because of it's rapid growth.

Our Moon Flower vine thinks the world would be a better place if the entire planet was covered in moon vine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea_alba

Watching the flowers open is fun, because it only takes about 5 seconds when the conditions are right. It's like watching a time-lapse film. They open at dusk, and fade in the morning heat.