By the Lake
Used a made up theme. A walk down by Lake Monroe. Weather is crazy, tomorrow it's supposed to hit 85.

95 Favorite Things

I've always like these type of fences. See them alot on the Civil War battlefields and more common when I was growing up. Which was not during the Civil War.

160 Intersection
Took a little driving tour of the Bentonville Civil War Battlefield in North Carolina last month while there babysitting our "grand dogs".

275 Sense of Motion
Our neighborhood hawk was hunting lizards in the neighbor's yard. Did not seem at all bothered by me watching. Actually he sat in a tree about 10 yards away for about a half an hour watching me as I cleaned out my pond last spring.

243 Public Art
The fronts of several shops in downtown Sanford have been decorated with may items shoved into concrete; there are baseball cards, glasses, bottle caps and many other items.

153 How About This Weather?
A lovely morning with a breeze and some cloud cover.

210 One Dozen
A dozen fresh eggs from the Farmer's Market. Fond of the Easter Egger chickens that lay such pretty colored eggs.

236 Playground

161 It's Saturday Morning
Early Saturday morning along the River Walk. A solitary sailor out on the lake. It was a beautiful day with a nice breeze and early before the usual heat & humidity.

250 Rainbow
Yippee, getting back into the groove again. Parents are doing well, husband has recovered from his surgery, I've done everything I can to prepare for the renovation to the house so I can spend a little me time behind the camera and playing with PSE. There was one day out in Arizona where it rained, caught this with my little P&S before heading to the hospital. One of the topics of conversation when I got to the hospital was the rainbow.

139 Hands
I have flown out of town as both of my parents managed to wind up in the hospital earlier this week. Yesterday my Dad was able to get in his wheelchair and go down the hall to visit with my Mom. It was excellent medicine.
And I would just like to whine one minute and say I hate dealing with a 3 time zone change!

293 Solitary
A Blue Heron had staked out the small area of land by some cypress trees. I no longer have my fish pond; in reality it was a heron feeder so I don't have one visiting my backyard anymore. I do miss him.

313 Swim
Since the lovely creature takes a swim in Lake Monroe along with quite a few of his relatives it is not considered a real safe place for us mere mortals to swim.

340 Turkey or Fowl
Seeing this turkey buzzard sitting in this park grill struck me funny. Not that I would really want to eat this turkey.

123 Go Fish!
Managed to get one shot of the osprey in flight. He was out of view when he got his fish.

269 Sculpture
This eagle sculpture is atop a plain granite column with the names of servicemen and women that are from Sanford. This is at Sanford's Veteran's Memorial Park.

209 On The Water
I don't think this boat has moved in a couple of weeks. There are some sailboats out on the lake that are creating problems as they are under the water. Played around with this one, added one of my textures.

196 Navigational Aids
They have one of these compass style areas on either end of the Sanford River Walk.

72 Curvy
The curvy neck of the American Anhinga aka the snake bird. Sitting, drying his wings by the side of pond. Often see them with the winds spread wide. They are a southeastern bird. They dive into the water for their food.

49 Chores
My least favorite yard work chore. Next year I think this one will be sold and I will invest in a battery operated. Getting tired of the cord, but I do love how easy it starts.