Re-edits of a wave that ended with a broken board at Sebastian Inlet, Jan. 24, 2020. A bit sharper, noise removed. Editing software keeps getting better.

Another from Jan 24, 2020. Good afternoon light.

inexplicably popular at Flickr. A palm-lined walk at Heathcote Botancial Gardens, leading to the little Rain Forest, behind a lighted gateway.

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here were endless problems with getting programmed floodlights to work in this area. As if there were an electronics curse. This night was looking pretty good.

Edited: 04/08/2023 at 01:38 AM by ww

That's quite the tombstone for a Florida wave!

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I was right.

New, longer model. Only one size, 10, is available, and then only by invitation--Yucca is checking to see how users like them before going ahead with full scale production. The "beige" color, really a soft yellow, looks sort of yucky under artificial light, beautiful in clear water on a sunny day.

Update: Yucca will be selling the longblades when the summer container of fins arrives. They passed the user test.

Edited: 04/08/2023 at 01:39 AM by ww

Fin comparisons. Leblon (no longer available) is at top, yellow with red. Viper Vector V-7 yellow. It's an especially long fin, long popular with California bodysurfers and lifeguards, now almost disappeared. Yucca longblade, looking kind of brown under the light. Viper regular model.

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View from above, same order.

Re-edited from Jan 24, 2022. Serious surf housing.

Another fresh edit

Messy but kind of interesting. Also a Jan 24 2020 update

Edited: 01/10/2023 at 06:16 AM by ww

Back to last month, a flowering Bougainvillea bonsai decked with lights at Heathcote Botanical Garden in Fort Pierce.

This big concrete gorilla showed up in a Fort Pierce warehouse. It was ugly when donated to Heathcote Garden, then a local artist clothed it in fragments of old coffee cups, tiles, and some glass. It was given color-changing lights.

Update of an interesting but poor-light photo from Feb 25, 2017 at Cape Hatteras. Gulf Stream was working wonders on water temperature, but only two guys were skinning it, rest full wetsuits.

Edited: 01/14/2023 at 05:09 AM by ww

More cats at Heathcote Botanical Garden. Both showed up recently, both were only slowly tolerated by the resident cat. Now the resident cat is interacting with them, a bit, and the black and white one (dubbed "Buddy") is seeking out people for petting. Not easy to take a photo of a cat that's rubbing your pants. Creamsicle colored one will put up with being looked at with a camera. She answers to Sugar. It seems she's an older cat, perhaps stray, perhaps dumped at the garden.

Edited: 03/01/2023 at 01:21 AM by ww

This photo of a gumbo-limbo branch weighed down with lots of fruits, taken this fall at Vero South Beach, got a fair amount of attention, so here it is.

A casual Newport Wedge photo (June 3 2021). Kid, dog, beach. What's not to like, other than the cloud layer.

I didn't notice the checkered socks until doing editing. This has been a popular item at Flickr. I think it's the pup.

Edited: 04/08/2023 at 04:05 AM by ww

Old Havana, calle Neptuno at calle Escobar panorama. Tour group's taxi. The crowd is at a Panadería. Feb. 2023.

The Panaderia crowd, earlier

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Second and third floor of a building on Calle Neptuno.

Edited: 03/01/2023 at 01:37 AM by ww

An accidental video from The Wedge. I was eyeing the rip current along the long jetty through my camera viewfinder when a kid showed up, so video turned on and a little story played out. The kid, and a friend (who you see at the end) had been out for a swim/bodysurf and were obviously competent. But it's easy to make a beginner's mistake with a rip, like not exactly realizing what's going on. Lifeguard's handling was great.

Moon with Jupiter Feb. 22 2023

Edited: 03/14/2023 at 08:36 PM by ww

Colpothrinax wrightii, palma barrigona in western Cuba on a farm, next to a tomato patch.

Edited: 04/08/2023 at 01:42 AM by ww

Wabasso beach park, May 2021. He was getting frustrated by both the non-breaking waves and Sargassum, which was coating the beach.

Edited: 03/14/2023 at 08:33 PM by ww

Baby Coccothrinax and mature ones in a serpentine barren, western Cuba (Pinar del Río). We have a native Coccothrinax from Palm Beach County southward, likes beach areas, worth growing in places like Satellite Beach. Cuba has a whole bunch of species, some with tiny distributions.

Quemado de Güines, Villa Clara Province, north coast east of Havana. Founded 1667. St Augustine's a lot older.

Edited: 03/17/2023 at 07:47 PM by ww