These are happy umbrellas.
Designs and color give them life!
Not sure how good they are for shielding from the soaking rain.
But they do add some shade in the blazing hot sun.
Florida tends to be hot, hot, hot. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So many months into Covid now, and probably so many more to go unfortunately.
Just missing getting out and down to Florida for a little vacation.
The palm trees. The sun. The beach. A little fun.
This isn’t forever, right?
Hopefully, let’s pray, Covid will be over and we can live again in freedom and without fear of contagion every moment of every day, day, day. 😉
(Credit Photo of artwork: Andy Blumenthal)
Thought this was a beautiful rendition of solar power.
You can have energy.
And you can have art.
Here you can have both.
It’s functional to harness the sun’s energy and it’s designed to look sleek and fit the landscape.
Nice job by Florida Power and Light (FPL)! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
These birds decided to swoop in for some lunch.
It was funny to see the people go scrambling from the table.
The birds were completely unabashed and took their time over the chow.
One couple in the corner had ordered this truly enormous meal (don’t worry, I was good and ate only the salad).
Each of them had a full lunch plate PLUS in the center of their table was “The Volcano” of nachos, cheese, chili, guacamole, sour cream, and jalapenos.
That was certainly no bird food with The Volcano punching in at 3,500 calories!
I have no idea how any two people could possibly eat that much food.
Probably good that the birds decided to drop in. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
(Source Video: Andy Blumenthal)
Rebecca was so brave and such a great sport with this parrot doing this crazy dance on her head by the beach.
(Narrated and videoed by Andy Blumenthal)
During the big snow storm this week, what better to do then to cozy up with a nice 500 piece puzzle set of an Island Beach (and dream of being there–somewhere warm and fun).
The challenge with this puzzle was in differentiating the oodles of pieces making up the blue sky from those of the blue water.
Similarly, with all the green pieces for the palm trees and all the white ones for the sand.
It seemed as if all the pieces were just shades of similar colors, and hard to differentiate between them.
But my daughter is so smart and determined.
First, she strategically separated out the pieces with the edges and put the whole frame together.
Then, she organized the rest of the pieces by their associated colors, so sky blue pieces would be in one pile and distinct from ocean blue pieces in another one and so on.
As you can see, all that’s left is to finish off the sky, and it’s done.
I was able to find a few pieces, but I’m better laying at the beach, then putting one together.
Just two more weeks to Spring…thank you G-d. 😉
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Rebecca got me on another mini-adventure today.
The T-Rex scooter had only 3 wheels, but packed quite a punch.
We navigated Las Olas and the Fort Lauderdale Beach pretty good in this thing.
So low to the ground, my hand could touch it, and no windshield so everything sort of just flies right through.
It was only an hour, but as we in this touristy-way waved at the passerbys and speed around town next to the other hulking vehicles, weaving and beeping on this crazy horn, it was a fun time and a good memory. 😉
(Source Photo: Dannielle Blumenthal)
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