Beach Photos

 The iPhone is magic. To take photos in the evening, you used to have to use a tripod so a camera would be steady enough to allow a longer shutter time. I took the following images with a 2 second shutter holding the phone in my hands. Must be AI.

Birds

 We walked around a neighborhood lake while Natasha and Oleg were at work. There was plenty of wildlife to photograph and nothing I would see back home. The cool thing about taking such photos using your iPhone is that you are immediately informed what it is you have  photographed.

Muscovy Duck

Egyptian Goose

American White Ibis

Green Iguana

I was excited when I spotted the first iguana. We see lots of lizards in Hawaii, but not Iguanas. As the day warmed they were everywhere. The younger ones are a bright green and they run in a fast, but unusual way. I have heard stories about iguanas falling out of trees when the temps cool, but I had not thought how they get into the trees in the first place. Fast climbers. They act very much like squirrels when you get close and they move behind the trunk so you can’t see them.

More Lakes

 We made a quick trip to Florida (Ft. Lauderdale) to visit Oleg and Natasha so I thought I would create a few more entries to the travel blog. These are our friends we first spent time with in Russia who moved to Colorado and then to Florida. The flight from Minneapolis to here seemed almost short in comparison to the last few times we flew and was much more pleasant that our other recent trips. Because of the government shut down we were concerned with delays or cancellations but at least getting here was easy.

My photos for this post may seem unusual. I took the first leaving Minneapolis because I was trying to capture the colorful leaves.However, we had been airborne for too long before the idea occurred to me, moved too many miles south, and most of the leaves had lost their color. I gave up on that idea. However, when flying into Ft Lauderdale, I noticed the many water ways and decided I could create a contrast between the Lakes of Minneapolis and the whatever the water features in Florida are called.