Here are a couple of animals from Jungle Adventures.

Recently while surfing the world wide web looking for different places to see, I ran across a website www.roadtrippers.com . It is pretty neat if you are looking for attractions or interesting things to do. I ran across a place in Christmas Fl. called Jungle Adventures. It turns out that it has been there for 50 some years but I don't remember it even though I have driven by it possibly hundreds of times making trips to the coast to fish or play music. Anyway, we decided to make it a destination for a day trip. It turned out to be a lot of fun.They have a lot of alligators along with many other types of animals. They have some demonstrations. In one of these, we got to hold an alligator. We also had a chance to handle snakes and tarantulas but opted out on those. After we left, we also stopped in at Fort Christmas, another place I had never been though living in Central Florida for 60+ years. Here are a couple of gator pictures.

This is some kind of water flower I found out on Haines Creek in Eustis.

I've been trying to get out on the water at least once a week. With all of the projects that Reba thinks up, I haven't made it there regularly but I've been getting better at it. These two shots are from a morning on Lake Harris, Eustis, Fl.

Since I retired, I no longer have an excuse for not  completing some overdue projects. The first big one was painting the house followed by some landscaping. This was a small area I completed. The bird feeder stays pretty busy with several species birds frequenting it.

I saw a set of commercials that showed several sunrise photos. The commercial went on to say that all of the photos were taken on the first day of someone's retirement. I thought it sounded like a great idea. Since I  retired on a Friday, I decided that the first official day would be the first Monday that I did not need to get up and go to work. Instead, I got up even earlier and went down by Lake Monroe to take sunrise pictures.

I still have a ways to go to get caught up. These two are from a morning out on the St. John's River. It was so foggy when I started that I could only idle around because I couldn't see more than a few feet. As the sun got higher it got better and eventually turned out to be a beautiful day.

I decided to throw a couple more from the trip up today then I will move on. These three were taken in Little Rock, Arkansas. This old mill was used in "Gone With the Wind".

OK OK, I know that if you have checked out this site at all, you have seen many posts that went something like "I've been really busy and haven't had time to shoot or to post or to do either". Well, here is another one. It has been a very long time. Hell, I haven't even posted some that I wanted to from our trip out west. I retired at the end of May so I really don't have an excuse any more. The first thing I am going to do is catch up with a few more from the trip and eventually start posting some new stuff. I am going to attempt to keep this more up to date. For starters, (or maybe more accurately restarters), here are some from the Grand Canyon.