08/25/2020 06:20 PM
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Domke at Wabasso, Oct 2015.
Skimmer removing debris.
My camera at the time (still have it) and lens were minimal to what's available now. The lens, a Panasonic, was maybe better than I thought. I doubt that its fancier replacements can do much better images.
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08/31/2020 11:16 PM
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Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Ft. Pierce went ahead with its Garden of Lights for 2020. No known spread of Covid-19, and attendance was close to the previous year.
There were assorted measures to keep everyone safe. .
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09/01/2020 12:32 AM
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It's got to be not flat, soon. In the meantime, digitizing some ancient stuff. This is recent, a July flight from Denver to Orange County, Calf. Green River, Utah at Ten Mile Canyon.
More of the same.
Same area, in a Cessna, 1978. Green River.
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09/02/2020 12:03 AM
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Back to Jan. 12 this year, a bit of messaging for suicide prevention week starting Sept 6.
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09/06/2020 12:50 AM
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Sept. 29, 2013. Spanish House. Nice day and there were bigger waves. Much better camera now, but no idea how much longer the manufacturer will be in business.
Surfers, South Beach, windy day with messy surf, Nov 14, 2013 75-300 mm lens at 194 mm. Recent re-edig
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09/13/2020 04:18 AM
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October 10, 2013, fun day at Vero South Beah
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09/30/2020 01:42 AM
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Feb. 16 at Sebastian.
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10/03/2020 06:34 AM
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Back to Jan. 12 at Sebastian Inlet. When are we going to see such a good day?
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10/09/2020 01:14 PM
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Hey WW, you know Olympus sold the camera division, right? Got an email from them announcing the new company.. supposedly still going to make and support the Oly line. I hope so, I have thousands invested in Oly pro glass and their micro bodies are pretty badass nowadays.
https://www.olympus-global.com/ir/data/announcement/2020/contents/ir00018.pdf
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10/13/2020 02:51 AM
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SRPHOTO, I've been all too aware of the sale. My impression is that the new imaging company is going to try to emphasize video, which Olympus neglected, perhaps figuring Panasonic had it tied up. Meanwhile Panasonic has put out a wildly optimistic video proclaiming that they will continue micro four thirds while expanding full frame AND working to get lots of new people into video world. They're claiming it's a booming new field needing great customer service (which Panasonic happens to have neglected, Olympus emphasized). If forced to bail out, I suppose Panasonic may remain in business, Nikon seems to have difficulties, Sony is thriving, but does anyone actually love their products?
Blue Angels 2018 with 300 mm f/4 lens and sharpening help from Topaz Gigapixel
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Death of a surfboard at Sebastian Inlet, Jan. 24 2020. These images have been re-edited a bit, posted Dec. 25, 2022.
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10/13/2020 03:02 AM
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10/13/2020 07:58 AM
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Branden DeFilippo, March 2018.
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12/31/2020 05:38 AM
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March 2014. I'd just bought a new camera body that could quickly focus an old used lens I already had.
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01/01/2021 01:42 AM
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Logan Hayes, March 4, 2018
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02/12/2021 09:14 PM
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South Beach Vero, Oct 10 2013, 228 mm with relatively cheap 75-300 zoom lens and my original Olympus E-M5 camera. Recent editing.
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03/05/2021 12:44 AM
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September 25, 2017. f/7.1, 210 mm, 1/1250 sec, ISO 200
Also 210 mm. Most popular pic of the day.
Also 2017, April 2017, old Olympus E-M5 camera, 75-300 lens at 228 mm. I couldn't do much better with supposedly improved equipment.
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04/01/2021 05:29 PM
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Not a surfy morning. Lanai across the channel from West Maui, Napili Bay.
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04/17/2021 04:55 AM
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Digitizing a few more old Kodachromes. Mt. Rainier, July 1980. Nearby Mt. Saint Helens had blown up and dusted it with ash on May 29.
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05/25/2021 03:12 AM
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Best of the sargassum photos. By the 24th, the seaweed all seemed dead and brown. I admit to editing the water and seaweed colors, gently
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07/05/2021 04:19 PM
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Craig Whetter
Not all good waves are big ones.
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07/05/2021 04:25 PM
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Looks like coaching a group.
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07/05/2021 04:43 PM
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Rome, cheap air fare, really cheap hotel. Pantheon dome from inside
The Pantheon's a church.
Washingtonia palm at the Spanish Steps.
It has a lightning rod!
Caravaggio, the Virgin with her very large Son with pilgrims at the front door. The lighting was awful (construction in the immediate area shut off light) and I could hardly see the painting with my eyes. The camera's viewfinder helped, and the photos turned out great.
I'm sure not good enough to be professional, but a nice souvenir. In the St. Augustine Church.
Bernini sculpted David about to kill Goliath when he was 25. Around the corner is a much later St. John the Baptist by Houdon, who was about the same age and went on to do great sculptural portraits of people like Ben Franklin and George Washington. At the incredible Villa Borghese.
Caravaggio. He invented strong contrast.
Also Villa Borghese.
Colonna palace, splendid but the art's second rate compared to the much smaller Borghese.
Pantheon's original Roman bronze doors.
They've been repaired but never replaced. They were part of Emperor Hadrian's construction project.
Piazza Navona, whose outline is an old Roman chariot race track.
Street near Piazza Navona. Great place to eat.
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07/10/2021 02:15 PM
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07/25/2021 12:44 AM
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Glass flower ceiling at the Bellagio, Las Vegas. Dale Chihuly.
University of California at Riverside and some of its agricultural fields. This is the old agricultural experiment station where citrus breeding was done. Major connections to Florida. There's two interstates, so the huge roofs are warehouses for the likes of Home Depot, Walmart, Nordstrom.
Corona del Mar, Orange Co., California. This is the opposite side of the Newport Beach harbor entrance from the Wedge .
El Morro elementary school and Crystal Cove
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07/25/2021 01:32 AM
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Newport Beach lifeguarding is big on interacting with beachgoers. The swim fins are Yucca, which has been eager to get them onto the feet of lifeguards and junior lifeguard participants. The fins have spread like crazy, so the marketing must be pretty smart.
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08/12/2021 03:17 PM
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In Australia, Shane Vannalo's company, Podware, has its own rubber swim fin factory, and they've figured out how to make the prettiest fins in existence.
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09/02/2021 09:09 PM
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Haven't been anywhere near a beach. Right now, can't even drive thanks to shoulder surgery. So a few past pics
Corona del Mar, Newport Beach, from a plane window
June 4 at the Newport Wedge. Most-viewed photo of the day, by pretty big margin. He must have friends.
Looked to me like a novice who was willing to try the Wedge
(which had plenty of good waves between sets) rather than the more comfortable, and that day, closed-out 15th St.
Second most popular.Cluster at the end of the jetty rip current, major takeoff zone. I think Craig Whetter (Gyroll wetsuit) was holding a coaching session.
Third. Nice portrait, but there's a certain lack of wave. Craig Whetter.
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09/20/2021 05:14 AM
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Camp's Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Plush beach community, 60 degree water (August 2019).
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10/02/2021 11:17 PM
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Top left to right: Limited Edition (Malaysia), Churchill, Viper (Malaysia), ERS4 (Taiwan)
2nd row, L to R: POD2 (New South Wales), Tribe (eBodyboarding, Taiwan), Viper (California), Viper (?), Kpaloa (Brazil)
3rd row: second Tribe, Leblon (Malaysia), Viper (California), Pod 3 (N.S.W.)
Front row: Custom X (?), Yucca (Malaysia), DaFin (Malaysia, I think), POD 2.
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10/02/2021 11:32 PM
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Trevi Fountain, Rome. Uncrowded thanks to Covid.
It was restored about six years ago. Magnificent and fun.
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11/19/2021 08:35 PM
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Heathcote Garden bonsai gallery, getting ready for the Thanksgiving to Jan. 2 light show
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11/19/2021 08:42 PM
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More Rome. Pantheon door. It's the original, installed during the reign of Roman emperor Hadrian. Bronze.
Pantheon ceiling. That's all concrete.
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11/29/2021 09:07 AM
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Spiny tree in the Bonsai Gallery at Heathcote Botanical Gardens. No one wanted to get poked, so I volunteered to light it. Rain Forest.
Blue tree.
Main lawn, lots of lighted caladiums
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12/13/2021 07:10 PM
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Heathcote Garden of Lights 2021
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12/29/2021 02:53 PM
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Some magical images there ww, please keep going.
I love the skull for a bookmark in the Caravaggio and the wonderful lighted banzai tree with the hint of purple in the background.
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12/29/2021 07:41 PM
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The bonsai tree is a Pithecellobium from Brazil. The big P. dulce was a popular street tree in PR when I was a kid, but it fell out of favor for being really vulnerable to wind, or just plain falling down. There's a couple of small ones native to the Keys.
Probably the most beautiful tree in the Gallery is a jaboticaba, the tree famous for having grape-like fruits on its older branches. It took me a long time to appreciate that its crown is shaped a lot like a cloak, with the front open so you can appreciate the tree's body.
The skull is with Saint Jerome, who "revised" the old Latin version of the Bible. His biggest decision was to translate the Jewish Bible from the Hebrew rather than the Greek translation that the New Testament writers used. His project was well financed and he set up a sort of Bible institute in Bethlehem. The Latin Bible gets official revisions, but it's basically Jerome's words that Catholics used for many centuries. Getting to see top Caravaggio paintings was worth the trip. I really enjoyed walking the streets.
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12/30/2021 08:05 AM
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The lighting technique the masters used sets them apart from all others in my opinion. It gives a haunting, yet appealing touch to the already exquisite craftsmanship.
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12/30/2021 11:25 PM
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Caravaggio almost single handedly invented dramatic lighting. He was a sensation, Rome's best-paid painter until he killed someone and had to flee.
That Madonna of Loreto showing off her huge baby Jesus (above Jerome with the skill) is very highly regarded. After it, he kept getting more theatrical/dramatic, which some like, others not so much. The painting was in a church around the corner from my little hotel room. Some construction work was going on next to it, lighting was awful, and I could see the painting better through my camera's electronic viewfinder than I could with naked eye. My photo probably doesn't have quite enough contrast, but just having it (no flash, no tripod) is something of a miracle.
I saw the Colonna palazzo, which was exquisite with very good art. Then the Borgia villa. They had the Caravaggios and incredible Bernini sculptures. Those works have been in the villa ever since they were made. Here's Bernini's David with someone else's painting of David with Goliath's head.
Caravaggio's David. The head is said to be a self portrait of the artist.
Laocoön and his sons. He was a Trojan priest who offended Apollo (in Virgil's Aeneid, by warning about the Greeks' wooden horse), so he and his sons were done in by Apollo's serpents. The statue group is supposedly ancient, but it was restored by a young Michelangelo. No one knows exactly what Michelangelo did.
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01/01/2022 11:47 PM
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Fun with caladiums. They shouldn't be up at the end of December, but the weather was warm. This is at night, with small colored floodlights aimed upward from under the leaves.
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01/10/2022 06:25 PM
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The flamingo started life as a welded metal flower pot holder. It was transformed with white LED lights, carefully painted coral pink or yellow. One remains white, as the flamingo's eye. The caladiums in back have little floodlights shining up through the leaves. Heathcote Botanical Gardens, Fort Pierce, December.
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02/09/2022 04:53 AM
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Another Wedge, June 3 2021. Not a great photo but the ominous color seems apropos.
Video grab. 60º water, about 60º air, this guy was skinning it. Old school: DaFins not Yucca.
This video was taken a few mnutes earlier. The yellow-tipped fins disappearing into the top of the wave are the same bodysurfer. BTW, the wave was not ridable.
The swimmer at bottom (I think a lifeguard on break) ducked under.
Recent re-edit of a fuzzy old photo from Wabasso (currently closed for beach nourishment).
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02/22/2022 02:19 PM
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Southwest at sunset
About the only charming buildings at Big State U, dorms from 1920s and after WWII. The one at the center of the photo was built with generous donations as Big State's Athletic Dorm. Once it was built, the faculty voted to not allow athletic dorms. There's never been an official one since, but I lived across the stair landing from a basketball guy and above a gymnast who made it to the Olympics.
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Lego model of a new rowing and water education center for Norfolk Botanical Garden.
Annapolis, Naval Academy at the far edge of town.
Patuxent River, Maryland. East of Washington DC
Nags Head, First Colony Inn late at night. A certified Historic Building.
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04/06/2022 04:28 AM
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New toy. Yellow Hand Job with an older Taylor's Mistake. Photo taken on Balboa Island
Desert mountain stream, N side of I-15 near Whitewater in eastern California.
Newport Beach. Not a flat day, but not much for photos.
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04/08/2022 01:38 AM
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04/21/2022 08:13 PM
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The round windows are Nagakin Capsule Tower. The idea was that the frame of the building would be permanent, but capsules, each with a round window, could be removed and replaced as needed. It was intended to be a sort of elegant crash pad for office workers who were expected to be in central Tokyo, late, but whose homes were way out in the 'burbs. It's now being demolished. .
More Newport Beach. Waterfront promenade going through backyards.
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04/26/2022 11:21 PM
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Wabasso, May 2021. lots of Sargassum
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05/05/2022 11:33 AM
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Nice to live close to the Air Show. A cat photo was inevitable.
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08/23/2022 07:51 PM
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A couple of recent edits. First, Villa Borghese in Rome. The god Apollo turning Daphne into a bush. Of course there's also a real group of bushes whose scientific name is Daphne.
Around the corner, a plaster statue of John the Baptist by a young Jean Antoine Houdon, who had won a scholarship to a sculpture training program in Rome. He went on to become a favorite maker of portrait busts and statues, including a trip to the young US to do George Washington. The statue is in the Capitol in Richmond, with bronze copies all over.
Backyard, bromeliad 'Little Harv' flowering.
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09/11/2022 09:56 AM
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Recent re-edit of a Wedge photo. Not entirely sure I like the shiny look of the wetsuit and the face may be over-processed, too.
Here's the full image, also recently re-edited for better contrast.
This photo was shot in June 2021. Topaz has been updating its editing software ever since. This image was well focused and caught the movement effectively despite a "slow" ISO of 250. But it's fuzzy, with a lot of fine noise. So editing helps.
Here's the head in the original version (transferred from RAW to jpg format):
And an edit that seems overprocessed to me:
An edit that seems as good as I can get, except for the patch of fuzzy hair on the head. Thats a problem with the software's "face recognition." Leaving a bit of noise/grain gives the face a better look. I'm not an expert photo editor. More like an idiot with toys. Still surprised that a camera with a tiny sensor (a quarter the size of an old 35 mm film camera image/Kodachrome slide) can produce images that can readily be enlarged to 13 inch and more prints
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Beach morning glory
Unidentified, Vero South Beach surfer, Jan. 3, 2018
Branden DeFilippo, South Beach, same day.
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Yucca's selling "creamsicle" fins. The in-house padding isn't available in Gator blue. Nor Carolina blue. Aqua or navy. Useful sticker for a two-stringer board.
As you can tell from the checked boxes, it's pretty basic except for 2 stringers.
Cheap slick on the bottom.
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10/26/2022 11:53 PM
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A real, cheap Japanese woodcut print from somewhere in the 1800s, not a reprint (note the fold lines). It shows a traditional snow party, but with a revolutionary innovation: thanks to imported Dutch books, Japanese artists had learned European perspective and quickly enjoyed using it. This print is an excuse to play with perspective . Japanese artists got widely familiar with European-style perspective from Dutch books around 1800, well before the revolution that opened the country up and set off a wild period of commerce and creativity. This is a wonderful, and very cheap, case of tradition meeting innovation.
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10/27/2022 12:00 AM
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A bit of fun. I spotted a ghostly pattern on a sidewalk, obviously made by a pressure washer with something serving as a mask.
Here was the mask, a door mat.
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10/27/2022 12:58 AM
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At beaches, look for beach stars. They spread by underground stems toward the ocean; they're in the first row of plants onshore. Cyperus pedunculatus, found on tropical beaches worldwide. In Florida, the northern range limit was in Indian River Co., but it's been collected at Patrick in recent years.
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The bodyboarding Hubbard brothers' business, Hubboards, has a new color for one of its staples: swim fin pad/tether. The tether snaps locked and free with a little plastic closure on each foot. Insert and press to lock, press both sides of the closure and pull to unlock. Fast and easy.
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11/18/2022 04:28 PM
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In Fort Pierce, the Heathcote Garden of Lights is materializing. Mostly Friday and Saturday, starting the day after Thanksgiving. The top photo is probably the best I did this season. But the parrot might need more work.
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What you clean a beach with. Sea grapes weren't bothered by the Nicole salt spray. A few days later, Vero South Beach was immaculate.
It's a specialized Beach Raker company. That machine, with its sand rake, lives at South Beach Park and serves all the town's beaches.
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