Summer has arrived and the rain finally.

As I type this. It is raining.  We have been in a drought situation in North/Central Florida all winter. So the rain is welcome.  My azalea bushes had almost no flowers.  I have fifteen bushes.  Two bloomed. It had to be the drought.  As I type this, we are almost to April.  After my checkup April 19th in Tampa at radiologist we will leave for Murphy N.C. and be gone all summer.  We will not be back until we buy a new place to live.  And then, if we find and buy a place, we may be gone through the Fall.  I miss seasons living in Florida. 

The hummingbirds have arrived.  But my mulberry tree's are full of ripe fruit and no Cedar Waxwings this year.  The fruit is going to rot.   I should go out and pick it and make a pie.  Mulberries are delicious. Most people won't plant them because they are messy. But I love them.  I plant anything the birds like. I can't wait to get my farm in North Carolina and plant fruit and Berry ash tree's.  We were feeding one stray cat we named buddy.  He was beautiful.  Then suddenly four more stray male cats showed up. Now Buddy had disappeared. We have a bob cat, a black and white tuxedo cat, and a grey persian.  I have no idea who they belong to. Or if they have a home.  I would like to be able to have the magical gift of finding who owned these animals and making homeless and hungry.  I know, I have revenge issues.  When it comes to animals, my kids say I love them more.  Could be.  I could have worse issues. 

So, we will be leaving the end of April. But I will keep posting.  In fact I will be posting more. When we are camping I have less daily jobs to do.  Here are my photographs today and recently. Oh, my last checkup with my family doctor.  All my blood work up lab work was excellent. For the first time in two years since radiation treatment.  My WBC and RBC are in the normal range.  Later.  Enjoy your Spring wherever you can find it.  <3

Daytona Beach Meet Up

I met some online friends in Daytona Beach yesterday.  Now, I don't go to Daytona Beach as a rule because it's not my kind of beach.  And now I remember why.   Wall to Wall highrise hotels.  Even the pelicans don't go there.  Really.  As I drove from Flager Beach to Ormond Beach on A 1 A I noticed that there were huge flocks of pelicans flying right over my car roof all across the road.  And why is that? Because that stretch of highway is sand dunes and two lane roads.  No buildings.  I got to Daytona and while visiting and walking the beach with my friends, I asked if they had seen flocks of pelicans during the week.  They had not seen a one.  And it was then I looked up and out, and there were no spaces between the buildings, no sky except out across the Atlantic.  I hate construction and hotels.  Daytona Beach is horrible.  My kind of beach is just sand, ocean and sky.  That is it.  I don't even want wall to wall umbrella's.  Fishermen are fine.  They are there for a true purpose.  I want no cars parking on the sand.  I don't mind sand castles or jelly fish.  But just give me a natural beach.  Not wall to wall hotels with cabana's.  Meet Penny and Fred from Maine. 

So, on my drive back it was too late to stop at my favorite state park,  Washington Oaks.  But I still got to walk miles on the beach, and breath deep of the ozones.  The air is better at the ocean.  I don't know what it is.  But as soon as I open the car window I breathe deeply like no where else.  So, here are a few snapshots. It was a bit windy.   A high of about 68.  Not as warm as the last few days but still plenty of sunshine.  In February.  Love it.  I hope I can manage to keep a house in both places.  I would miss this beautiful February weather.