Pictures from around our hometown and a local flea market

Shreveport LA

Since we haven't been anywhere lately due to our usual summer slowdown, I thought I'd post some pics from our trip to Shreveport. We'll be taking a trip to St. Paul, Minnesota the first part of August so hopefully we'll see something worth photographing along the way.

Pond behind our house during a cloudy sunrise.

We're thinking about having some of our pictures put on canvas and selling them as artwork. Would you buy something like this if it was on canvas? Judging from the pricing we've seen to have these gallery wrapped (ready to hang) it would go for about $175 for a 16 x 20 or $300 for a 24 x 36. Just looking for opinions right now, but if you've seen a picture on the blog that you'd love to have on canvas, we can make it happen.

West Texas storms

We're in West Texas this week. After Pam's laptop crashed, we lost nearly all the Florida pictures, which was heartbreaking. The "expert" is still trying to recover them, but so far without success.

There's not a lot to see in West Texas other than Mesquite trees and brush, but driving in we got some halfway decent pictures of the building thunderstorms.

Missing Florida

The hardest thing about being back in Texas is not having those gorgeous sunsets and other great picture ops. We're working long, hard days again instead of the great 10-4 hours we had in Florida. Hopefully soon we'll have some other great photos to post, but until then here are some from our trip home.

Ah well. Looks like Blogger is on the fritz again. Will try again tomorrow.

Getting close to time to head back home...

Just about 10 days left of our stay in Florida. We've had a ball, worked our tails off, been frustrated by some people's attitudes and charmed by others. The best part has been the chance to take tons of pictures of things we don't see at home.

Update: Caught the two guys at the top watching a golf game with interest this morning. And our Florida stay is over early. We leave Sunday to head back to Texas. We hope to see lots of interesting things on the trip home, though, so stay tuned.

Some of these pictures were taken at the country club where we're working this week, and on Sanibel island.

In Ft. Myers, FL

We'll be shooting in Ft. Myers FL for the next week. Today we stopped by the Manatee Viewing Center in Ruskin to see if the cooler weather had brought the Manatees in--and it had. There were quite a few in the warm waters put off by the power plant. Our favorite was a female with her calf. Mama kept rolling over onto her back and floating in the water, giving us a good view of her face. I love the way the manatees are always touching with their flippers, their noses, etc. They seem to be very loving creatures.

Also got a few more pics of the Skyway from St. Petersburg. And some sunset pics from Honeymoon Island and Pine Island.

Ah well. Looks like we won't be able to upload any pictures again this week. We don't have wifi at the motel, so we're on dial up, and Blogger can't handle the slower upload.

Check back next week and hopefully we'll have a lot of new pics to show.

Spent most of today driving to Wikki Wachee and back. Had no idea it was that far away. We found a motel to stay in for the next 3-4 days, then drove out to Pine Island to take more sunset pics.

Does anyone ever get tired of looking at sunsets?