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Inflation caused The BIG BANG...look it up!

Bee balm (Monarda punctata), native flower that sometimes shows up at beaches with a honey bee.

A big African cycad from the coast of Kenya with a bunch of cones, back yard. Encephalartos hildebrandtii.

It may be native to Cuba, ranges south to Brazil. Hurricane lily.

Atlantic beach sunflower, Helianthus debilis subspecies debilis, Gulf coast near Tamps has a more buish-like subspecies, spp. vestitus. Ridiculously easy to grow. This is the one native to our beaches.

Edited: 09/13/2024 at 08:56 PM by ww

I have a new camera body (they finally offered an affordable deal). I've appreciated the faster processor, but hadn't given it a nasty test with moving objects. Wabasso in afternoon sun was perfect. Very sharp, long focal length lens. This skimboarder needed only trivial editing. Autofocus worked really well, and so did image stabilization This is the full-sized image, no cropping.

Another image also an uncropped image. Now to come up to Brevard on a better day.

And another. Sideways.

Edited: 11/10/2024 at 08:44 PM by ww

Messy, windy fun in Indian River Co. Mon., Nov.10

Edited: 11/10/2024 at 08:45 PM by ww

Garden of Lights at Heathcote Botanical Garden in Fort Pierce is coming close to completion. Fridays and Saturdays only Thanksgiving weekend to Dec 28. This is its tenth year.

The ten-year old bear is a beach bear this year.

One of a bunch of photos from March 2014. The equipment is better now, and so is the editing software. Improvements over the 2014 edit are minor. The day's photos had seemingly gone missing, but lately turned up on the backup disk. I lost the skimboarder's name, but he was well known and it was a privilege to catch him in perfect afternoon light.

Heathcote's Reflection Garden was decorated this year. The big ball overhead was a decorative tangle of (maybe) vine stems. There's a little light in the pool.

Looking at Flickr stats showed that a similar photo from the same batch (Labor Day weekend 2023) was popular. this one, except for not catching the yellow splotches on the Viper swim fins, is better. And the editing tools have gotten better in just a year. Western Newport Beach, jetties area near Huntington Beach. Wedge was useless at high tide, while the jetties area proved fun to watch and swim.

Edited: 12/22/2024 at 07:45 AM by ww

Party treasure ship in Vero Beach at a big neighborhood event.