8 posts tagged “sunbeams”

These were taken around Easter, 2008 in North Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Only now getting around to uploading them.  Truthfully, while it is hard to complain about being at the beach, I really prefer the Gulf side of Florida.  The beaches are much nicer and the trade winds a little more mellow.  Maybe it was just the time of year but the trash line was indeed filled with trash, jelly fish, and man-o-war.  I've never seen so many used straws.  As for the town, I just felt like I was in a big city rather than an island feel I get from the Fort Myers area. The Hallendale Pier area is funky-sort of an old boardwalk with little pizza shops and tourist gift shops.  Lots of interesting people from the world. 

The first photo was the first day of our vacation and taken from our deck in the condo rental.  Not a bad way to start the day!  The sun from our home is rising below the tree line so there isn't much to see here in NE Ohio in the mornings.  I sure hope the sun shines a little on all the people in the Midwest who need a break from all the flooding.

March 16, 2008.  Not the best sunrise I have ever seen.  It seems the Earth has tilted all at once making the sun's morning appearance happen behind the trees.  Definitely better in person but nonetheless, it started out as a sun filled day! 

Taken in our backyard March 11.  We've changed the clocks, you know Spring forward!  The sunset is one hour later than it was.  Just when we were getting used to waking up with daylight, we are again up in the darkness.  No stars to be seen as there has been a lot of cloud cover and precipitation. Snow.  Rain.  Sleet. Ice Balls.  You name it and it has been coming down on us.  You can see in the last pix the sky turning back to its grey, gray winter sky. 

These were taken Feb 28, 2008 in our back yard,  In the first photo, see the big tree on the far RIGHT?  Well then, look how far over to the LEFT the sun is coming up!  In previous photo posts the sun can be seen closer to that big tree and to the right of it in the midst of winter.

I know the earth is spinning and sometimes in my day, my head gets to spinning in circles too but, I had forgotten that this is just one more sign of Spring.  Incidentally, the Robins have returned to NE Ohio.  No crocus yet, as there hasn't been enough sun filled days to melt all the snow and there is a pretty good chance that the deer have eaten the bulbs anyways.

January sunrises in my backyard.  Cold weather but hot sun.  Sunrises are now happening earlier each day meaning that winter is passing and spring is teasing me.

Jan 3,4,6, 2008.  The New Year is off to a glorious start.

Nice to see leaves on the trees.  This was taken in our backyard about October 11, 2007.  It was a glorious fall with temps holding steady well into the 70's.  Our pool is still open and we are swimming.  Winter is teasing us as temps are dropping steadily at night. 

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Sunrise.  Sometime in November 2007.