The view from the bridge
Sometimes I feel the need to pinch myself - I look around and say, wow, I live here. 
Yeshi thinks it's cold...
I did not break the palm branch, it was like that...
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Showing posts with label palms. Show all posts
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Marsh
Yeshi and I went on a bike ride around the neighborhood. I discovered a bridge to a little island just a couple blocks from our house. Unfortunately this will be a gated community so we'll just have to enjoy it in its formative stages. So today's post is primarily a look into the wetlands in my backyard...
The view from the bridge
Yeshi thinks it's cold...
I did not break the palm branch, it was like that...
The view from the bridge Yeshi thinks it's cold...
I did not break the palm branch, it was like that...
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Palms
Ah, the ubiquitous palm tree. So much of this area is similar to Virginia Beach but wi
th LOTS of palm trees added in. And like a goofy northerner I can't stop looking at them and thinking - gee, another palm tree! Having lived the better part of my life in the north the first time I remember seeing a palm tree was in boot camp in Orlando, Florida (although I know there must have been some in California - but I was too little when we lived there to remember that). Marching around trying to look at them and yet NOT look like I'm looking at them. So I've always been kind of fascinated by them and it feels pretty exotic to be living in a place where they just grow by themselves. We moved here on December 28th (our 23rd anniversary and my 47th birthday) and I drove down here first to get the keys to the house, arriving around 6:30pm in our neighborhood. It was dark but many of the houses had their Christmas lights on and the temp was in the low 70's. I could hear people talking and laughing out on their porches. Pretty neat - two houses down from us they had a snow family made of lights with two lighted palm trees arching over them. Our house is pretty new, built within the last 5 years, and most of the neighborhood is about the same. We are at the very end of a new development with a small municpal airport behind us and marshland all around. Very pretty and QUIET. Our son Yeshi has the best view - he can see the marsh and airfield out his bedroom window. Sunsets are really pretty and Danny caught a nice picture of sunrise out our front door when he was leaving for work one day. 
th LOTS of palm trees added in. And like a goofy northerner I can't stop looking at them and thinking - gee, another palm tree! Having lived the better part of my life in the north the first time I remember seeing a palm tree was in boot camp in Orlando, Florida (although I know there must have been some in California - but I was too little when we lived there to remember that). Marching around trying to look at them and yet NOT look like I'm looking at them. So I've always been kind of fascinated by them and it feels pretty exotic to be living in a place where they just grow by themselves. We moved here on December 28th (our 23rd anniversary and my 47th birthday) and I drove down here first to get the keys to the house, arriving around 6:30pm in our neighborhood. It was dark but many of the houses had their Christmas lights on and the temp was in the low 70's. I could hear people talking and laughing out on their porches. Pretty neat - two houses down from us they had a snow family made of lights with two lighted palm trees arching over them. Our house is pretty new, built within the last 5 years, and most of the neighborhood is about the same. We are at the very end of a new development with a small municpal airport behind us and marshland all around. Very pretty and QUIET. Our son Yeshi has the best view - he can see the marsh and airfield out his bedroom window. Sunsets are really pretty and Danny caught a nice picture of sunrise out our front door when he was leaving for work one day. 
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