The Green Parrot Bar in Key West. This is my kind of bar, real and anything but upscale.

 Hmmm, choices ...

Lots of ex-pats frequent this place.  I enjoyed it way more than Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville on Duval Street.

I love exterior wall murals.  I find them way more interesting than graffiti "tags" of the "taggers'" names that can be seen everywhere.  This vibrant mural is just off Duval Street in Key West.

Cool Key West car

Shiver me timbers!  Aargh!

This is one mean looking US warship docked at Key West. 

HSV-2 Swift

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Career	United States
Name:	HSV-2 Swift
Ordered:	October 2002
Builder:	Incat, Tasmania, Australia
Yard number:	061
Acquired:	15 August 2003
Refit:	October 2008
Homeport:	Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Norfolk, Virginia
Nickname:	Vomit Comet
Status:	In service; Run by US Navy in Key West Florida to intercept drug smugglers. [1]
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,668 long tons (1,695 t) full 940 long tons (955 t) standard
Length:	321.5 ft (98.0 m)
Beam:	88.6 ft (27.0 m)
Draft:	11.15 ft (3.40 m)
Propulsion:	Caterpillar 3618 marine diesel engines
Speed:	45 knots (83 km/h; 52 mph) maximum 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) operating
Range:	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi)
Capacity:	Approximately 605 long tons (615 t) Approximately 28,740 sq ft (2,670 m2) cargo deck
Complement:	17 Contract Mariners; berthing for 107 with additional temporary berthing for 87 when seating is converted
Crew:	35
Armament:	4 × .50 caliber M2 Browning machine gun mounts

HSV-2 Swift is a non-commissioned, hybrid catamaran originally leased by the United States Navy as a mine countermeasures and sea basing test platform. She is now privately owned and operated by Sealift Inc. and chartered to the United States Navy Military Sealift Command. She is primarily used for fleet support and humanitarian partnership missions. The HSV stands for "High Speed Vessel", and its home port is Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Norfolk, Virginia. The vessel has two CONMAR crews that typically rotate every three months to keep the ship deployed eleven months per year. The minimum crew size is 35; 18 are military with the balance civilian, provided through American Maritime Officers and Seafarers International Union. On rare occasion that she is in a United States port, it is usually Naval Station Mayport, Florida, supporting the Fourth Fleet or Charleston, South Carolina, for major maintenance. Rota, Spain, is considered by the crew to be the "Mediterranean home away from home".^[2]

Sunset at Key West

 Hell yes, we had a beer here!

And here it is.

Even Marilyn was in Key West!

On US1 to Key West.

Naples, Florida

A view from the beach at Naples, Florida.

Does anyone know the model and year of this truck?

My buddy, Bob, sold his house on the lake (directly below this view), and he's building a new house here this summer.  This is the view he'll have.

Here's another photo of the Icicle Wind Chime.

Frozen suds in the waterfall.

Icicle Wind Chimes, Gumby Falls

Mr. P.'s dock is almost underwater.  Any more runoff and it may start too float away.

This photo was a mistake.  As I finished a shot with my iPhone, the shutter clicked off as I was putting my phone back in my pocket.

This chipmunk is taking advantage of the spillage from the bird feeder. Once the kitten gets bigger it may have to be a bit more careful.

After 5 1/2 hours of driving through horrible weather conditions last Friday from North Bay to Bass Lake at Rideau Ferry, this was the last section of road before our destination.  If there had been any more freezing rain, it would have been a repeat of the "Ice Storm" conditions from a number of years ago.

Just got back from a weekend at Bass Lake near Rideau Ferry.  Really crappy weather for the drive down Friday, but nice weather today for the drive home.  Around our friend's place are lots of these maple sap collecting buckets, should be great tasting soon.

I took this photo of our yard yesterday afternoon.  We still have a ton of snow.  It looks like spring will never come!

We had some guys come in yesterday to take down 3 problem trees for us. The trees were too close to the cabin and hydro line for me to do from an insurance standpoint.

Following the footprints home.

The Great Hall in Toronto.

The Great Hall in Toronto at the corner of Queen Street West (1087) and Dovercourt Road.

I love the wall art in Toronto.  This is just off Queen Street West.

LeE HaRVEY OsMOND at The Great Hall on Queen Street in Toronto on Friday night.

Red Shoes, as seen at The Great Hall in Toronto at the LeE HaRVEY OsMOND and Harlan Pepper show on Friday night.

It's day #2 of spring, and this is not what we're seeing out our window; although, it is what we should be seeing at this time of year.  Enough with the snow and cold already!

Thursday night's supper - prosciutto and pesto wrapped pork tenderloins, can you say yum?!

This is the old Normal School in North Bay.  It sure looks different now as it has been incorporated as part of a new Government of Ontario building.

 Sun Dog

Sunny Dog

Looking toward Ontario from Quebec across the Ottawa River at Rolphton - the Joachims Rapids bridge.

The Gang in Kemptville on Saturday.

Once more into the fray ...

Mr. P. and his new "wheels."

With all the snow we've had this winter, it's been a snowmobilers' paradise out on the lake.

South side of our wood shed