Billy

Billy cleans pools today but he has big dreams.  He wants to start a home watch service

serving the snowbirds whose pools he cleans, to take care of their homes

when they are up north. Then he wants to persuade an entire
community to hire his home watch service.



Billy is also a talented photographer who takes great photographs with his phone.
I see a real camera in his future.

Tri-Color Heron

This guy posed for me on a recent kayak trip.

I was in the kayak, not the bird.  The heron was in the mangroves.

Lynn

Lynn works at a store in Naples that sells stationery, greeting cards, wrapping papers and ribbons,

fountain pens and other writing implements and similar things.
She has a calm, easy-going manner.

Writers

A Naples furniture store (Norris Home Furnishings) hosted an event last weekend for local authors.  The store's designers asked the authors where they write and what their interests are, then designed spaces within the store.  Writers spent a few hours on Saturday meeting readers and customers.

Ben Bova is a prolific science fiction writer.  His new book is a collection of short stories about
the past, present and future.  Ben lived in West Hartford for a while.

Karen Harper is a former English teacher who writes at a desk facing a rose garden in Ohio.

Her current book is the third in a series of mysteries set in small town Appalachia.

She has also written historical fiction about women like British queens and Shakespeare's wife.

Jean Harrington retired after a long career as a college English professor.  Writing her own books is not as easy as it seemed when she was teaching.  Her latest book -- The Design is Murder -- is the fifth in a mystery series about a Naples interior designer.  It has won a Florida fiction award.

Pat McGauley is originally from Minnesota.  He has written nine novels so far and three children's books.  The Last Moran is about a priest, so the store's designer included

a variety of religious articles on his desk.

Karen Bartlett is a photojournalist who has written coffee table books about Naples and other travel destinations.  She has also been a features and travel writer for Gulfshore Life,
a lifestyle magazine for southwest Florida.   Karen's current project is a

book about things to do with children in Naples and Marco Island.

What would I miss most?

What would you miss most if you left your city or town?

For anyone, losing contact with good friends has to be the answer upon moving away. 

But, apart from friends, what would I miss most when away from greater Hartford?
No brainer.  The rose garden at Elizabeth Park.

Click here to see how other City Daily Photo bloggers answer this question.

Brown Pelicans in Chokoloskee

Chokoloskee is a small unincorporated village of about 350 residents, south of Everglades City.

When I visited, about twenty brown pelicans were roosting on piers at a marina.

Pelicans are the goofiest things, bar none.

City Daily Photo bloggers post photographs on a theme on the first day of each month.  On 
February 1, they will address this intriguing question:  If you had to leave forever the city 
from which you usually post, what would you miss most?  

A Great Egret at an Ibis Convention

As dusk approaches, ibises gather to tell tall tales and gossip.

A great egret hired to provide the security eavesdrops.

Weekend Reflections.