I’ve driven past this little apartment unit on 8th Street North hundreds of times, and it never fails to catch my eye. What could be a very unremarkable 1939 four-plex is, instead, a little gem in an area of otherwise ordinary buildings. It reminds me of a little story that we read in elementary school called, [...]
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I was working with some friends recently to find a house for them. We found a great place in the Euclid Park neighborhood – an old bungalow in a peaceful neighborhood with a nice detached garage apartment. Their friend, a contractor, is updating it now, and they’ll be moving in soon. My friends are actually [...] Long, Beautiful Hair – Shining, Gleaming, Streaming Flaxen Waxen… I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this play! It would surely reveal my age if I were to tell you that I first saw the play during its original Broadway run, in 1969, while traveling around the country with my good friend. We didn’t [...] St. Petersburg has a lot of great things going for it. Of course, if I didn’t think so, I wouldn’t have created this blog. Most of what I talk about and show here in my blog are things that I love about St. Pete. One of the things that is uniquely St. Petersburg’s is the Awesome [...] We don’t hear it so much these days, but St. Petersburg has been known as “The Sunshine City” since the early 1900’s. There was a great desire to grow the city back in those days, to add both residents and tourism. Because our fantastic weather has always been one of the big selling points of [...] The west coast of Florida has a number of great outdoor art shows throughout the fall, winter, and spring seasons. For St. Petersburg, our premier outdoor art event is, unquestionably, the Mainsail Arts Festival. Held on the waterfront in downtown St. Petersburg, this year’s Mainsail will be the 35th instance of this show! That’s pretty remarkable, but [...] One of the huge attractions of St. Petersburg is the abundance of water for sport and for play. Within 30 minutes of us, people can get to the Gulf, the Bay, Hillsborough River, or any number of lakes. And once they get to those bodies of water, there are any number of activities that they can [...] I’ve been wanting to get down to the Saturday Morning Market for weeks, but each weekend, there has been something getting in my way. This past weekend, I finally made it down there, and what a treat it was! Beautiful blue skies and sunshine, temperatures right around the low seventies, live music, lots of fresh [...] There is a relatively new technique available in the world of photography called High Dynamic Range, or HDR. There have been entire books written about HDR photography but, simply put, it allows a much broader range of light to be captured in a photograph than was ever possible in the past. A new exhibit opened at [...] We’ve all read abut the dramatic decline in the population of honeybees over the last couple of years. There are a variety of possible reasons that have been put forth for their disappearance, but, whatever the reasons, there is a very real cause for concern. So, it is comforting to know that, in some places, [...] |
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