A Fishing Party

 

There must have been a school of fish just off Naples Beach.  The pelicans led the fishing party.

And for those who think I should have something Valentine-themed today,

here are some sweets from Norman Love chocolatier.

Stop Sign Photographs

I can't be the only person who drives around with a camera on the passenger seat.

Red.

 A Punta Gorda bank.

Who tells each bird how far to perch from the next bird?

Yeah.  We get it.  You are important.  But, a little humility wouldn't hurt.

Red, yellow and green.

Tuscan architecture is pretty popular in Southwest Florida.

And, The Fishing Center.

Happy Birthday, Abe

I like to post photographs of President Abraham Lincoln on his birthday, February 12.  This unusual painting of Lincoln by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali is in Dali's museum in Figueres, Spain.
Seen one way, we have Lincoln's face.  Seen another way, we have a nude woman.
Dali was not normal.

We Buy Junk Cars

Immokalee.

Art Deco

South Beach in Miami Beach is home to a great many Art Deco buildings.

Wolfsonian Museum

On Tuesday I took a tour of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach.

The museum is in a converted 1927 warehouse.  The collection was gathered by Mickey Wolfson, a wealthy Miami Beach resident who is captivated by physical objects, machinery and artwork.
An approximate time period of interest is mid-19th century through the 1950s.

Wolfson salvaged a ceiling from a Miami auto dealer and had it refitted into a gallery at the Wolfsonian.  The ceiling and the chandeliers have suggestions of automobile parts. 

This painting is an imagined landscape of all of the high-rise buildings and towers designed by a prominent Miami architectural firm, with Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria in the center.

Birds of Lake Trafford

 I went to Lake Trafford in Immokalee last week.  There were some fine birds.

An osprey.

A double-crested cormorant.

A heron, perhaps a try-colored heron.
(Update:  More likely a little blue heron.)

A black vulture.