Happy Flowers and More!

Hi Everyone!

Sorry, I am a little behind in my blogging. Not too much new and exciting around here, but Florida continues to be awesome.

The week before last, Glenn spent most of the week in Jacksonville, where he attended a Relay. (Right now, he is at one in Fish Hawk Ranch.)

Look, Tom - he got a luminaria in your honor.

 

 

He also saw a goose family in Jacksonville.

See the little goslings?!

Once back at home, we had to convince Deuce to leave the comfort of the couch cushion he is slowly flattening to go on a long walk.

What?

Glenn took some nice pics just as we walked through the neighborhood, and through the little Marshall Street Park.

So anyway, my blog title promised you plenty of flowers. Here are a couple wildflowers that I found when walking during my lunch hour.

So cool!

You've probably figured out by now that we really like orchids, and it turns out that they seem to like us back. Here is a status update of all of our orchid friends on our lanai.

So happy!

Our little mini orchids

This is our newest one. He just bloomed overnight.

See the orchid on the second tier is covered with buds.

Go orchids!

Last Sunday was a beautiful day, and Glenn and I decided to go to the beach. We went to Pass-A-Grille which is a weird name for a beach, but one of my favorites down here, and adjacent to St. Pete Beach. Thankfully, the Spring Breakers are finally gone.

Check out the puffy clouds.

Glenn, as usual, decided to build a sandcastle.

Surveying the conditions

He completely wore himself out and got sunburned on his back. I told him he is the only person I know who goes to the beach to work.

Still, a nice ocean-front castle.

A couple people took their pictures with it, and one woman came over and shamelessly flirted with Glenn. (Really?! I am sitting RIGHT HERE!) He told me he builds castles to pick up chicks.

Ok, so this weekend I worked on the blog :-) while Glenn relayed. Saturday night we went to a new restaurant in St. Pete Beach called Castile at the Hotel Zamora. Even though it was a somewhat cloudy evening, we had a fabulous dinner out on their porch, which overlooks the intercoastal waterway.

So anyway, you're about all caught up now. Some big storms rolled through today and we had a tornado warning at work, but thankfully, we just got some heavy rain.

Hope you guys are all doing well. I shall leave you with a pic of lizards in love. (They don't even let a screen keep them apart.)

Love and lizards -

Diane