Your Jacksonville Giants!!

Last night I won 2 tickets to see the Jacksonville Giants of the ABA (American Basketball Association) play against the Atlanta Experience. It was the only team the Giants had a loss against this season, and Atlanta was undefeated until tonight. Go Giants!! It was a fantastic, close game, and the Giants prevailed, winning 132 - 118. Here Jermaine Bell makes one of his many free throws of the evening.

Happy New Year....

From sunny Jacksonville Beach, Florida! And yes, people are swimming! They had just completed the annual Polar Plunge, and I'm guessing it wasn't too cold in there! :)

Skywatch Friday, 12/30/11

Spent some time this morning at the Jacksonville National Cemetery. Beautiful, Reverent morning.
To see more views of skies from all over the world, visit the skywatch blog.

Labor Day

Monday, September 5th was Labor Day, here in the USA. Since I had the day off, I decided to go to Jackonville Beach to watch the sun come up. It's just under 5 miles on the walk I take, and I'm usually scanning the soil for pretty shells, sand dollars, or sea glass. As you can see it was very low tide at this hour as well. The beach seems miles wide!
The recent swells from Hurricane Irene certainly left more stuff on the beaches and I found quite a few pieces of sea glass. Not the real pretty kind, but I'll take what I find. :)
To the right is what I saw at one point in the walk, at about 6:20AM, EST
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The sun is but a morning star. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden

big cats..

Hercules is one of the several tigers (among other animals) that live at the Cattyshack ranch near where I live. They brought Herc to the local Chick-Fil-A to do a litle advertising and fundraising. I've been meaning to try and get out there someday. Meow!

Jax Beach, 8/5/11

Thought I'd share a few photos from an early morning walk on Jax Beach. It was already in the low 90's by 8-ish AM, so after an almost 5 mile walk, I hightailed it back to some air conditioning..

Dreamette Ice Cream

This place has been there forever. Ok, so since the late 1940's..but this was my first time to try them. Reasonable prices, and delicious soft serve...perfect combination for a hot summer evening!

I got there about a half hour before closing on a friday evening and I was lucky to find a spot to park in their little lot.

After being chided by the owner for never having been there before (jokingly, of course...) I chose a vanilla/strawberry twist in a cup with rainbow sprinkles. YUM!

I can't wait to go back!! Will try a sundae next. or maybe a milkshake.. :)
And of course to get some more pictures!