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Euclid Post Office (click on photo for larger image) St. Petersburg is a city filled with people who like what they like. And when something comes along that poses a threat to something that they like, St. Petersburg’s residents are usually willing to come forward to do whatever is possible to try to ensure that [...] It always takes a few weeks to process the raw statistical data in order to produce reports on the health of the Real Estate market in Pinellas County. Realtors and residents in Pinellas are very lucky in terms of having access to accurate, timely, and relevant statistical reports. Our local Real Estate board, the Pinellas [...] Post Card of Open Air Post Office (click on picture for larger image) St. Petersburg has a very unique and beautiful post office in the heart of downtown. It’s known as the Open Air Post Office because, as you can see in this late 1940’s or early 1950’s era postcard, the main areas of the [...] We’re just over a week away from Halloween, and the pumpkin patches have popped up all over the city. Not the ‘real’ pumpkin patches, where Linus might be sitting at night, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to make an appearance, but the kind where you can go and buy a pumpkin or two to carve [...] A couple of weeks ago, as I was headed to Willow Tree Nursery to pick up a few plants, something bright and colorful caught my eye. I slowed down and turned in to the Biff Burger on 49th Street North at 39th Avenue. There was a Classic Car show this Saturday morning, combined with a [...] Several weeks ago, I posted about the new home being built for the Dali museum. On Saturday night, there was a great party, dubbed “Gala’s Half-Dressed Carnivale”, held on the lawn beside the new museum building. The party was a combination of a fund raiser for the new Dali and a celebration of the fact [...] I’ve been doing this blog for a few months now. Every once in awhile, I sort of step back and look at my posts and try to make sure I’m capturing the flavor of St. Petersburg as well as I could be. A few days ago, I looked at my subtitle – it says, “A [...] Saturday night was the sixteenth annual Pops in the Park – the Florida Orchestra made beautiful music in Vinoy Park, for free, on a crisp, dry, cool evening for a park filled with appreciative listeners. Average attendance at the outdoor concert has been about 12,000 people, so this event clearly strikes a chord with St. [...] For a garden with some intense bursts of color and a bold, interesting look and feel, many enthusiasts choose to plant Bromeliads. Although they can be grown in climates as varied as the southwestern deserts of the United States to the tropical rain forests in South America, St. Petersburg’s climate is very conducive to growing [...] Don’t ask me – the post title just jumped into my head. This is one of those photographs that pretty much speaks for itself. But if you use your imagination, it could take you so many different places! Photo was taken at the Pier in downtown St. Petersburg… Awaiting the Mother Ship (click on photo [...] |
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