America the Beautiful…

My dad took this shot while traveling out west with my mom. These snow covered mountains are the Grand Tetons. I love the reflection and the colors in this photo. As I have said before, Dad has a great eye! I’d like to thank my Dad for being a guest photographer on my blog, and I look forward to sharing more of his “work”!

Always look behind you…

When photographing sunsets, I always make sure to turn around. The sky is usually just as interesting behind you. This is the sky over Long Boat Key, Fl. If anyone knows who lives in that house, please introduce us… would love to borrow it for a week or more! 🙂

Inhabitants of South Lido Key State Park….

Decided to walk the trails of South Lido Key Beach while in Long Boat Key, Fl. The trails were great, well marked and the surrounding area was beautiful. Mangroves galore! What got our attention and respect were all of the very LARGE spiders that we encountered. Their webs were all over. We had to duck here and there, lean to one side or another just to avoid the webs. I was very nervous that I would accidentally destroy a web and have a spider crawling all over my head! Luckily I did not! After some research, found out that these are Golden Orb-web spiders. They actually are really neat looking spiders, just at a distance!

Homosassa…..

I was inspired this morning by Humbled Pie (www.humbledpie.wordpress.com). He posted some photos from Homosassa, Fl. I’ve been there many times to visit the manatees (wild and captive). This is not the best manatee photo, but it is one of my favorites from when we visited Homosassa Springs park. They have quite a few manatees who are there year round. This manatee arrived because one of the volunteers was about to do an educational presentation that involved feeding them carrots. They were crazy for those carrots!

Another Disney Landscape…..

The Tree of Life in Disney’s Animal Kingdom is a beautiful piece of artwork! Now it has some artistic competition in the form of Mt Everest. They are both pretty amazing. Put them together and you have one of my favorite views in the park! (Taken from one of many bridges in AK)