Monday, July 6, 2009

New York Harbor

Every passenger is up on deck to take myriads of Manhattan skyline pictures.

Empire State Building


34th Street


The protectors of our waters in a small rubber boat ...


... and in the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, dwarved by the Norwegian Dawn.

On Our Way

This was supposed to be a great post on Florida birds. Two scrub jays sollicited us for food, so we ran back to the house, got my muesli walnuts and a camera. On our return, the scrub jays had already pegged us as misers and did no come down again from their tree.

Back to the house again. Suddenly, Son yells BOBCAT. No camera ready, bobcat is too fast anyway. So are all the bunnies and even the caterpillar. As a result, you are back in New York Harbor.

A look back at the Hudson and
at the East River and

at Lower Manhattan and
at New York Harbor

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Cruise to Bermuda

Our first cruise on a regular cruise ship, one of the Norvegian line boats leaving from New York City. The huge Norvegian Dawn in background. Ours was small enough to dock at all three Bermuda ports.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

4th of July

Appropriately patriotic for an immigrant (-:

Notice Newark, New Jersey's beautiful largest city and home of the immensely efficient immigration agency in the background.



Jump to a small place called Pumpkin Center in Central Florida:

No bald eagle but impressive nevertheless.
(Photo by Reinhold)

Friday, July 3, 2009

Florida Birds

Warblers
Beate sent me these nice photos from her central Florida yard.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Welcome to Florida

I know that I posted this photo a few days ago - by mistake. When I wanted to relocate the photo and delete it at the old spot, Bland Allison (in finances? in politics? in law?) had already posted a comment.

The plate sized sucker feet and giant goggle eyes probably belong to a Cuban tree frog, a voracious carnivore. I hope that the spotted feeding machine enjoys love bugs.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Time to Leave

Too bad that the photos do not show a person in the pit for comparison.This used to be a great yard with a five bedroom colonial.
The new McMansion is said to have a swimming pool in the basement and 9 foot ceilings down there.
It looks like it is also going to have turrets on the corners.

William used to live here and his father wanted to establish native ground orchids in his woods. Farewell! See you in Florida.