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The weather found the pedals again and today we enjoyed a beautiful, warm, sunny day which officially began at 6:42 AM as the sun peeped over the Atlantic horizon. As the photo below shows, I was up and snapping. You can tell from the height that I was on our balcony. I have no idea who the lone soul is down there, but doesn't he add a nice touch to the general atmosphere?

It surprised me how swiftly the sun seemed to rise compared to it's setting, of which I've seen far more examples.

By the way, another interesting feature of our balcony is that once in a while a flock of pelicans will fly by very close to us. It's really quite an impressive spectacle. These are birds of substantial presence.

Later we took a stroll along the beach, opposite direction from last time. Carol tested the temperature of the water and pronounced it good. During the days Nathan was with us, he somehow acquired an interest in jellyfish but we saw none on the Gulf side. We did find several beached ones this morning. So, for Nathan, I post a photo. As I mentioned to him earlier this evening, none of them were smiling. Just click on the photo if you want to see it bigger, Nathan.

It was still early when I took the above photo but before long we installed ourselves on beach chairs and goosed up our tan. I'm still reading The Comedy of Errors and, yes, Shakespeare's humor is making me laugh. I use the name 'Shakespeare' loosely because I don't believe for a moment it was him who wrote those plays. But of course this is not the time or place to discuss that.

After finding a good spot on the beach we watched as it gradually accumulated a major population. I took the photo below to illustrate how it filled up but I snapped too early. An hour later there was even more. Interesting. At Englewood we had the beach almost to ourselves.

And that's Tuesday's story.