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 [...]
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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, [...] The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is the current featured exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Petersburg. The exhbition runs from January 9th through April 4th, and it includes 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from Botero’s private collection. Many of the works have not been exhibited publicly before. In addition to all [...] Balloon Man and Friends (click for larger image) One of the things that makes St. Petersburg a great place to live is that we have ’big city’ amenities, but we still manage to hold onto some of the old small town flavor of yesteryear. Today’s post is a good example of this concept. Last Saturday, in our neighborhood, we had our third [...] Pops in the Park The Florida Orchestra’s Annual Free Pops in the Park concert takes place this coming Saturday, October 17th, at 7:00 PM in Vinoy Park in downtown St. Petersburg. This year, it looks as though the concert timing coincides perfectly with our expected cool front next weekend, so it should be a glorious evening [...] Okay, so we don’t have frost on the lawn in a St. Petersburg October. Some of you who come from the north might miss that little sign of Fall’s arrival. But we did have a couple of nights last week where we dropped into the high 60’s at night, and that’s enough to tell me [...] I knew, when I started this blog, that I would someday have to post a photograph of the ubiquitous Pelican! Not that there’s anything wrong with that; it’s just that Pelicans are sometimes a little overdone in the tourist shops – Pelican t-shirts, Pelican postcards, Pelican cups, even Pelican poems: A funny old bird is the [...] I know today is only Wednesday, but I’m posting this today so that you all know about it in time to build it into your Saturday schedule. The annual ArtsAlive Free Museum day will be this Saturday, September 26th, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Free admission to all of these museums! Choose your favorites, [...] There’s a Longfellow poem called ‘The Village Blacksmith’, and it begins with the line, ‘Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands;’ We don’t have chestnut trees in St Petersburg. But we definitely DO have a ’spreading’ tree, and it’s called the Banyan Tree! From afar, a Banyan appears as a gorgeous, well-shaped green leafy [...] |
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