LIFES A BEACH!

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2011

    WowoWOWoWowWOwOWoWOWOwOWOwOW!!

    So many amazing contributions.

    Coming it at the end of a lovely day is such a toes-in-the-water sort of delight.

    MissyB, thanks for sharing your little wonder-guy with us! I've never been to Legoland, but right now that is a total fascination with our grand-wonder-peeps. Right before we 'moved out' of our Ohio place I uncovered all of the Lego collection from our kids and took the whole lot to the wonder-peeps!

    There's enough for all of their buddies to play with at the same time. While we were home last week I came across a Goodwill that had a HUGE HUGE HUGE box of lego pieces & Lego people for only $5.00..... so now they have enough for the whole neighborhood to have a Lego party.

    Fun stuff.

    xx00xx00xx00xx

    Julz, wish you didn't have such a full plate of 'life' -- because we love when you're here with us sharing your great finds of awe-inspiring wonder.

    Edited an hour later, cuz I just saw I started a new page. LOL.

    This is later on, the same night as the picture below.

    This one is after the one in the next post. LOL.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2011

    Sunset in Naples, FL -- last month. Gulf of Mexico.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2011

    Lisa, have you ever checked the tide pools at night? That's when they would be the most colourful. Let me know.

    Julz, as usual, very calming pictures. I pray for some calmness in your flurry of life!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    Barbe, I can't get to these tidepools at night..first of all they are inside a national

    monument and it shuts down, but they are very difficult to climb down to..and with

    my dizziness, it is a challenge in the daylight...oh, how I wish I could find a spot

    I could visit at night

  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 2,007
    edited March 2011
    The photos ladies are wonderful. Nice to finally see some of yo0urs too Barbe. Lisa becareful I can picture you climbing around on the rocks with your cameraTongue out
  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited March 2011

    thanks for giving me something to change the background to and going to Wildwood, NJ, really the Villas.....away from here and these kids....17 year old twin boys are stressfull, along with having cancer....actually the older ones 36, 33 and 29 are worse..

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    Faithie, I ran across my kids' (and mine before that) Legos a couple months back.  The morning after their father died, I brought them out and sat in the floor with DS3 and "played".  We didn't talk, just built Lego stuff.

    I informed the boys that the Legos will stay at Grandma's.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    Meece, so glad you used Legotherapy..nice how that works isn't it..??

    The kids and grandkids can talk, or not..

    My grandmother used dominoes to have a one on one with her grandkids

    and greatgrandkids..(BTW she almost always beat us!! she was over 95

    at the end)

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    We also play cards with the kids, but we get to joking too much, it didn't seem appropriate at the time.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    I took a walk today..lots of flowers, but can you believe my pointsettia is still blooming

  • MissBianca
    MissBianca Member Posts: 1,291
    edited March 2011

    Faith, what gorgeous sunset photos! The oranges are breathtaking. They are opening a Legoland in Winter Haven, Florida in Oct 2011. It will be the second in the States. The other countries that have one are Denmark, Germany, and England. Maybe it could be an adventure for you and your grandkiddos.

    Lisa, your poinsettia pic could make a beautiful Christmas card, straight from sunny So. Cal! I didn't know they could bloom that long.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    Since Poinsettias are from Mexico, they like your So Cal weather!

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    Meece, I saw these today and have really never seen any

    like this before..any idea what they are, they look like an african

    daisy, but not...

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    They could be a type of African Daisy, the leaves look like it. Or perhaps a variation of blanket flower.  They are beautiful and so delicate!

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I could only find orange and yellow blanket flowers and the African Daisies only had the outer petals.  I am stumped.

  • marlegal
    marlegal Member Posts: 1,482
    edited March 2011

    wow, sooo many gorgeous pictures!  Lisa, we almost met when you came to Phila, does that count???  Blondie, our trailer is in a campground on Route 47 just a bit north of the Villas.  If you drive by Hideaway Beach, wave HI for us till we get down there in a few weeks, okay?

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2011

    Could they be a form of Aster or Passion Flower????

  • blondiex46
    blondiex46 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited March 2011

    Marlegal I sure will my gf has a trailer at Holly Lake, was there before the season last year... I know exactly where Hideaway Beach is on the right hand side correct....

  • samsue
    samsue Member Posts: 599
    edited March 2011

    Just reading up on what everyone has been up to...... I've been held hostage by visitors. Well not really, hostage that is. But we've been busy. Baseball and all that stuff. Spring training here in FL so we went to some games, had to visit antique shops too.

    I'm missing the beachies....

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    lovely samsue

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I checked out Asters as well, barbe.  I couldn't find a matching photo.  The leaves loked more daisy than passion flower, but I thought of that, too.  I love passion flowers, but DH doesn't want anything vining.

    Great picture, Samsue.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited March 2011

    Maybe it's a mutt flower.

  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 4,424
    edited March 2011

    I'm having an "over-night-spring-break-slumber-party" w a friend.

    We may make it to the beach??

    Thunderstorms make it a tad-bit "iffy".

    Will report in with a verdict at the end of the day.

    Everyone splash happy!!!

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    have fun, Faithie.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    that looks like a great blue heron in a color phase

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    I think the flower is some sort of aftrican daisy ground cover..I just hadn't seen one quite like it before

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited March 2011

    I scanned through as much African Daisy stuff as I could, but didn't see it, but I am with you.

  • sheila888
    sheila888 Member Posts: 9,611
    edited March 2011

    Meece...check under exotic flowers.

    I saw some resembling to this one. I'm not sure.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Member Posts: 10,184
    edited March 2011

    Roses are blooming as well

  • samsue
    samsue Member Posts: 599
    edited March 2011

    SoCal, I think you're right about the bird being a blue heron. I've never been able to get that close to one while at the beach. It was just before dusk and he just came wandering down near me.