Fishin’ and Cookin’

Off for the day’s adventure…

Boys on Boat

Fishing Adventures

Lucky day for the fish.  Not so lucky for the boys.  Cap’n Terry caught the only fish.

Fishing Adventures

Day’s catch was filleted,

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Blackened,

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Cooked up in the cast iron skillet on the grill,

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And served as an appetizer.

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Thumbs Up!

Fishing Adventures

And dinner for tonight is….

Fishing Adventures

 

Flamingos

I think Flamingos are really cool.  Especially because it is actually correct to spell the plural as Flamingos, Flamingoes, or Flamingo.  Really, I looked it up.

I love love love this print from Jan Beckman’s 20×200.

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You can click here to check it out:  Flamingo No. 4 by Sharon Montrose. If I had a kid’s room to decorate, I would definitely buy this one.  She has several other prints that I love with monkeys and donkeys and all kinds of adorable animals.  Each and all would look sweet in a child’s room.

It sort of inspired the flamingo “art” I made for our powder room.

Powder Room Reno

Here’s the photograph I started with:

Flamingo

And here’s a whole bunch of flamingos at the Homosassa Wildlife Park looking hoity-toity with their beaks up in the air.

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One last picture of flamingos.  Saw these one afternoon across the canal.  Since I knew that flamingos do not naturally live this far north, I sent out the picture to several friends.  One correctly identified the species as “Plasticus Flamingus”.  Giggle.

Flamingos

 

 

Butterfly Garden

Butterfly Garden
Purple Coneflower. I’ve tried to grow coneflowers in other colors but they only last for the one season and don’t reseed. The purple coneflowers come back every year and spread.
In the garden
Black Eyed Susan. This is another flower that reseeds itself and returns year after year.
In the garden
Palamedes Swallowtail
In the garden
Purple Coneflowers and Black Eyed Susan
Butterfly Garden
Gult Fritillary on a Blue Indigo Spire. This is a salvia and another very hardy butterfly attractor. I accidentally broke a stem off of another spire so stuck it in the ground and here it is!
Butterfly Garden
Cosmos. The orange and yellow varieties reseed and take over. I’ve tried other colors with no success.
Butterfly Garden
Hamelia Patens or Firebush. Both hummingbirds and butterflies love this plant. It is not very cold hardy. I planted this one last spring and we had a mild winter so it did come back. I usually treat them as annuals.
Butterfly Garden
Chinese Pagoda Plant. Vera gave me this about 3 years ago and it finally bloomed this year.