Sun

Sun every day !
Okay, maybe there as been the odd day with rain, 2, but by evening the sky had cleared.... rain is needed here, region hasn't had the usual rainfall . At first grass was brown greening up now. how can one mind a  bit of rain..  but as a Northerner I so appreciate the sun and blue sky on nearly  every day.
Warm today about  75.
Been very  busy,
 exploring   Weeki Wachee area  ,a  different direction  each day .
We are staying an area that is vacation homes for Floridians, not a snowbird haven , have not seen any other Canadians at all nor even many licence plates from out of state.........
The home is situated in a quite forested area  near a mangrove swamp seeing lots of birds and lots of fish in the canal ....fishermen and ladies...... people kayaking......

Muscovey ducks paddling by. Fish jumping  tho try to get a photo of that.

Even had a first sighting of a manatee in the canal just  off the dock... maybe 25 feet away.. not fast enough to get a picture Yet!

The house is surrounded by grapefruit,

orange trees,      kumquats,
Home came with a juicer so fresh  orange , tangerine or grapefruit juice every day....  Heavenly flavour.
Some lovely shade  trees;  camphor trees which are very messy but the robins love the fruit.

sweep steps every day 



very straight tall camphor trees but oh so messy is the fruit!


Egrets come for a visit as do

herons.......Friendly and not scared of humans..



Never seen a flower on an Aloe plant but here it is!

up close

Bottlebush tree

out front,

palms ..More of my  exploring later! time to enjoy the  warm day...

Quiet on this blog cause I MOVED-------------------------------------further south!

Moved   to the sunny climes of Florida!
But only for   3 months!
Decided   to become a snowbird  and miss all the lovely snow and ice of the Great White North.
Any Northerner  can attest to the brutal and oh so long  winter last year. Did not want to face  any more shovelling this winter ..........
Needless to say this blog has been very quiet while I was busy getting  ready for the big move..but I missed  everyone.....
 Back to my story  ; we found  a  place to rent  on VRBO web site  in Weeki Wachee Florida.
Basically  sight unseen.. yes, the owner Phil sent lots of  photos but it was with some trepidation  that we drove up to the place wondering what we had gotten  ourselves into...... 

First the temperature on the first day 75 ! Can you say heaven?.

Second the place is everything and more that the photos showed.
Dock  overlooking the intracoastal waterway........



Where DH will be   spending time   as the song says " Sitting on the dock of the bay,Watching the tide roll away,
I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay, Wasting time"

 View from  great room  out onto deck and then the  waterway.

The garden is lovely , will post more about that later...still settling in...  
 
Will be  getting around to every one's blog and catching up on the news.......

Belated Happy New Year!

PS brought the cold with us only high of 50 today......... LOL.