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Day 1 - went to the beach - this guy was flapping around looking for food.
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My beautiful little great niece - she has quite a personality, and chatter's non stop in her own language.
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One of the highlights of the trip - a bike ride on a "mountain" bike trail. A group called "SWAMP" keeps trails open in the florida area for easy or difficult rides - we went on the easy and I thought I would melt from the heat. But it was FUN.
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This is an orchid that my mom is growing - I wanted to move this picture somewhere else on this post, but blogger or MAC wouldn't let me. Back to the bike trail.
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Oranges growing wild on the bike trail.
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An Epiphyte flower
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Crazy looking mushrooms on the trail.
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and rooting armadillo's - exotic to me - not to Texan's and Floridians.
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Interesting clouds when we left Florida. We flew around them.
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Ready to leave from Kinston North Carolina - first stop on the way home.
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And more interesting clouds - again, we stayed away from these powerful engines.
This trip wasn't the vacation that I needed, too busy being a daughter, aunt, niece, great aunt, Daughter in Law, wife....and not much time for much else. But I did get up early every morning and do some drawings which I will post later....
5 comments:
Not to mention you must have stopped pedaling a lot to take those bike trail pictures. Your niece is too sweet and the pictures are lovely. Never been to FLA.
Ohhhh, thanks for the pictures. All my favorite things-clouds, flowers, trails. It was really nice to open up your blog and see those.
I'm learning to snatch hour long vacations as well, it's just not the time for the extended lolligagging I crave.
Great pictures and beautiful flowers. I love how you made the trip in your plane. It all sounds so perfect.
All lovely, apart from the idea of flying near those clouds in your little bird.
what a lovely selection of pics and your grand niece is a cutie pie....
welcome home. daughter, wife, great aunt, daughter in law, aunt!
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