Zooming in on one of the many gorgeous beaches of the Gulf Coast of Florida:
Photos chosen for this week’s Photo Challenge: Muse – illustrate a subject that keeps drawing you back – the endless blue of sea and sky.
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Which Way Now 101 
We had to delay a trip to the gulf coast this year because of, well, life, but you’ve reinvigorated my determination. Cheers —
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Life does tend to get on the way of travel. Wishing you the best of luck in getting there soon. Cheers to you!
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Hope you’re okay, missing your posts. And hey! I’m joining the Geriatric Gypsy roadshow as we’re selling our apartment in North Cyprus and moving to Ireland – you’ll be able to come and visit us! Had a wretchedly hot summer which convinced us to move.
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Nice to hear from you Mo! Good luck with your move. We moved into our new (and last!) house 5 weeks ago. No Internet yet and sooo busy with sorting everything out. Bit of a problem with my hand as well after wrist op. Hope you move goes well xx
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How are you doing, Carol. Just wanted to tell you I miss your posts. Hope all is well with you.
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Hi Sylvia, how lovely to hear from you. We’ve bought a house in a village in Essex and moved in 4 weeks ago. As you can imagine we’ve been v. busy! Just to complicate things we’ve got no Internet signal at the house and we’re still waiting for dear old BT to connect us. When we drive into town for a signal on our phones we’re checking bank accounts, paying bills, shopping for the house online etc. To make matters worse I’ve developed a rare arthritic syndrome in my hand as a result of the op which I’m exercising madly every day to hopefully get rid of it. So . . . the blog and reading blogs has taken a back seat for now. So nice of you to think of me. How are you getting on? Hubby finished your new house yet?
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Everything ok with you, Carol? I noticed you hadn’t been around for a week or so. Somewhere nice, I hope? 🙂
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Thanks for asking Jo. Hand/wrist/arm a bit of a b****r. Typing difficult. Doing lots of exercises & physio. Think about blogging and commenting but . . . .
Hope to be back soon. Just reading for now xx
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Gorgeous photos, Carol. Love those blues. I’m still trying to catch up after being away for 6 weeks. 🙂
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Could take a while!
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Sorry I haven’t had time to come and admire your horizons till now, Carol. I have thought of you- seriously- but we were house moving our son, amongst other things this week. Must be nearly time for a chill but I still have the ironing before he goes back down to Leeds (then tomorrow’s walk to finish 🙂 ) Glad the wrist’s improving.
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NO need to apologise. I just popped over to your place for a read and realise I started to read two blogs and never finished. Bit off my game this week. Wrist is giving me h***. I’ve still got pics of Canterbury I haven’t posted. I’ll be looking out for your pit pony.
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Must be ‘knitting’/healing? No consolation. Not even a pair of socks 😦
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😦 indeed
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Amazing! I love the white sand and the clear blue and green waters! So lovely. Wouldn’t mind being there right now as it is a heat wave here right now. Hot!
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Hot here (UK) too. Could do with a dunk in the cool blue sea.
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Breathtaking!
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Thank you Paula. Nice to see you!
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The sand looks so white I thought it was snow for a moment! In reading the comments glad ot hear the healing is coming along. It seems like it has been a long recovery. Hang in there and sending all my very best for continued healing.
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Thanks so much Sue for your good wishes. I cannot work out how you manage to have such grand time AND write a blog AND read other blogs. Don’t you sleep?
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Well I didn’t read any other blogs while away. Now that we are home the pestering has begun. I often hand wrote posts while we were on a bus, train or plane and then posted when Ms. Wifi showed herself. I love writing live so for me it is fun to share in real time. 🙂
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The blues and the hues are great muse.
By the way how do you do…s?
You heeling?
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Healing slowly, thanks for asking, Nancy. Using my right hand a tiny bit. And thanks for your comment on blue hues muse!
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How beautiful! Love the smoothness of the beach your captured. 🙂
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Thanks Amy. I love the blues!
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Not to mention the icing-sugar sandy beach! Mesmerising. A place where I could stand and stare for hours looking at those changing colours. And a perfectly horizontal horizon! 😀
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Yay! You noticed! I didn’t even edit the pics. I must have been concentrating that day.
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No- come and gallop along the beach like a pit pony with me! 🙂 🙂
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I just can’t picture you ‘like a pit pony.’
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Try! Must be because my walk this week is centred on a former pit village 🙂
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Absolutely lovely.
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Thank you. My fav colour.
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I’m with Torrie. I would have called it snow. How glorious to view sand so white!!
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What you can’t see is that it was COLD – below freezing at night. Very un-Florida. Walks on the beach were pretty but swift!
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Brrrrr! Definitely not something I would be expecting in Florida.
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Neither were we! You’re up early. 🙂
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Yes, indeed I am. It’s a hiking day and I have to be on the road by 7 am. I organize everything the night before so I can sit quietly with a cup of coffee before I have to head out.
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I need to come with you. I’m losing fitness by the hour.
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You will always be welcome.
Today we saw a fox trot by my car as we were preparing to leave … as bold as could be. Shortly after we saw a Bambi look-alike peaking out at us. Of course as soon as I turned on my camera, he bounced away. Don’t know where mom was.
On the flip side, it POURED RAIN. Thank you Mr Inaccurate Weatherman.
For 18km we got hopelessly drenched and I now have the blisters to show for it.
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Oh I don’t like the sound of that at all. I would have stayed in and had the coffee ready for you when you got back. 🙂
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We needed something stronger than coffee after this one. I came home and cracked open a bottle of wine 🙂
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I could do that too.
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I’ll get the glasses 🙂
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Gorgeous photos….nah the North Sea ain’t so beautiful is it. I always thought the sea round England was ok until I went to Greece,Turkey etc.…then I realised how murky it was!
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Can’t compare shingle and murky water to aquamarine water powdery white sand!
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Come to Cornwall then… 🙂
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. . . on my way.
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Hang on, I’m not there yet 😀
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😀
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Lovely! Which beach is this, Carol?
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Destin. Standing on the boardwalk at the State Park looking out to sea. It is/was one of favourite beaches. Need to find a new fav now. Somewhere on the Mediterranean?
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I’m with you all the way here – I love the sea.
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Unfortunately our nearest sea now is the North Sea which usually looks very brown – not very photogenic.
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Yes but the North Sea has a charm all of its own …
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Butting in again – actually you can get a similar photo at Holkham Beach in Norfolk. I know. Himself doesn’t ‘do’ Norfolk.
https://smallbluegreenwords.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/just-back-from-north-norfolk/#jp-carousel-2211
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Very pretty . . . but still Norfolk. I’d like to live there but I’d be on my own!
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I almost posted pics of the beach at Pawleys Island where we reflect each year on what’s happened and where we’re headed. Don’t know what it is about the beach, but it does tap into something inner, doesn’t it?
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Certainly does! Seems we’re on the same wavelength with our subject matters.
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Can definitely see why that keeps drawing you back. And you know, it looks like snow, but you’re saying Florida…..is it sand or is it snow? Either way…it’s very peaceful subject matter!
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It was winter but definately sand. 🙂
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How weird…..I really can’t tell…..I noticed the same thing up here this year….our snow looked like sand……
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Was the cold messing with your mind? 😉 It would do that to me.
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It very well could’ve been, Carol, but then again, I really don’t need the excuse of the cold…..my mind is a very strange place most days…..
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I was once told I wasn’t normal. I took it as a compliment.
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Hah. How funny you would say that right now…..sometimes, I do wonder if you can read my mind, Carol…….
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You mean you think the same about me?
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No, I am working on a new blog post and just added a picture of something ABNORMAL. Just made me laugh when you came up with that idea of not being right then…..
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Picture of me then? Hahaha.
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HAH. Didn’t think of that one! How is arm?
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Not behaving. Thanks for asking. Chef/waiter/chauffeur still working hard.
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Hah. You do make me laugh. Wonder how long it’ll be before he tries to form a union and get better working conditions and higher pay? LOL>
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What are you talking about? He’s living with me. What more could he want? 😉
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How could I forget that? You’re so right!
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He’s groaning and holding his head in his hands.
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