Home, sweet home - ??

Ah, the beach!

I think we've settled back in.  Unpacked and laundered the salty/sandy clothes.  Put away another batch [small this time] of special shells.  Uploaded several hundred photographs.  And recall the joy of walking outside without coat/hat/mittens/etc.  Sanibel, I love you a lot.  Especially this year - the warmest two weeks in January I've ever known - even counting those years I spent in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida!

So here are some of my photographs of the beaches, the birds, the shells, the people.

dog fanciers and friends

Bikes for rent

Practicing the Sanibel Stoop

Early morning traffic stop - for white ibises with
their curved pink bills and long pink legs

"Happy New Year 2013" on the beach -
from a Canadian visitor?

An island pond next to the inn

Beach art at foggy dawn

water's edge with pelicans and gulls

Another kind of water's edge

Trimming the coconut palm to protect the inn's guests

Beachwalker at sunrise

A flock of gulls about to land.
Is Alfred Hitchcock filming here?

Sometimes dawn can be spectacular - - 

As can sunlight through dark clouds

Another of Sanibel's spectacular sunsets over the beach.

Fashion-conscious photographer:   did he choose those pants knowing
 he'd see the roseate spoonbills (the pink birds).