East Carolina Spider Lily 2

East Carolina Spider Lily 1

Sky Watch Friday

Getting in late this Friday due to being busy and forgetting to save a post ahead of time on Thurdsay... but it did allow me to post a "fresh" photo from earlier this evening of a Florida thunderstorm building around 40 miles to the west - note the anvil head just above where the sun is located. We just saw on the news that this particular line of storms had produced over 1,500 lightning strikes in just the past couple of hours.

Visit the Skywatch link blog to see what else strikes everyone's fancy.

Spitting Fountain... and Guitar Music?

A fountain next to the St. Augustine Visitors Center which pays homage to the original fountain of the same design in St. Augustine's sister city in Spain, Aviles, which was home to Pedro Menendez, who founded St. Augustine in 1565.

Incidentally, Aviles is located in the region of Spain known as Asturias, which is also the name of my favorite guitar piece (though it was originally for solo piano, not guitar, it fits the guitar perfectly and is almost exclusively performed on guitar these days):

ABC Wednesday: "F" is for Fountain

ABC Wednesday this week: "F" is for Fountain.

This fountain is located in the parking lot of an upscale strip mall (is that an oxymoron?) here in town.

Yes, it is a topless mermaid on top... I have no idea why... I also was forbidden to photograph it from the front by my wife - she said I couldn't post naked stone mermaid breasts on my blog, haha.

Visit the ABC Wednesday 3 link blog to find out what everyone else is exposing this week (yes, that is a double entendre - exposing as in the topless mermaid and also exposing as in photographs...)

Mischa Sidelight Portrait II

Micha Sidelight Portrait I