Swim With The Current or.....

November Beach Sunset in Florida

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

~Thomas Jefferson~

HAPPY SUNDAY To You!

Susanne

The Snowbirds Are Here...

The snowbirds are definitely here - captured at Cocoa Beach, FL 2012-10-25

But, please what is a "snowbird" anyway.....? Wiki has the answer, like to anything else :-))


The term "snowbird" is used to describe people from the U.S. Northeast, U.S. Midwest, or Canada who spend a large portion of winter in warmer locales such as California, Arizona, Florida,Texas, the Carolinas, or elsewhere along the Sun Belt region of the southern and southwest United States, Mexico, and areas of the Caribbean. It is also used for people from eastern Canada or northern Canada who migrate to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, for the winter. Victoria is known for having very mild winters by Canadian standards, and has an annual "blossom count" in mid-February to prove its warm winter status.

Snowbirds are typically retirees, and business owners who have a second home in a warmer location or whose business can be easily moved from place to place, such as flea market and swap meet vendors. Some snowbirds carry their homes with them, as campers (mounted on bus or truck frames) or as boats following the east coast Intra-coastal waterway. 

In the past snowbirds were frequently wealthy persons with independent incomes who maintained several seasonal residences and shifted residence with the seasons to avail themselves of the best time to be at each location; this custom has declined considerably due to changing patterns of taxation and the relative ease of long-distance travel compared with earlier times.

Many of these "snowbirds" also use their vacation time to declare permanent residency in low- or no-tax income tax states (where the tax bases are augmented by high tourism taxes), and claim lower non-resident income taxes in their home states. Canadian snowbirds usually make sure they retain residency in Canada in order to retain health benefits.

The right to vote for local office is governed by local law, so it may be possible to vote for local offices in both places if the locality permits nonresident voting based on property ownership, but representation in the United States federal Congress is for residents as enumerated by the decennial census and voting in U.S. federal elections in more than one jurisdiction is deemed to be electoral fraud.


I'm wishing you a very HAPPY and relaxing SUNDAY!
~Susanne

Oh,...and on YouTube I have found this for you - about "Snowbirds"... ENJOY!

Where Eternity Starts....

When you get there, there isn't any there there

~Sheng-ts'an~

HAPPY SUNDAY to all my friends!

Susanne

HAPPY SUNDAY - it's Sunday again!

(Blooming sea grape flower - captured at the beach on my Birthday July 5th)

For happiness, one needs security, but joy can spring like

a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

~unknown~

I'm wishing you all a very HAPPY SUNDAY!

~Susanne

HAPPY SUNDAY to you!

It's Margarita-Time folks.... it's summer!

Hi my friends,

I hope you'll have your well deserved vacations pretty soon to enjoy all that what the bright side of life has to offer you: NO stress, NO boss, NO annoying neighbors... just you, the sun 

and not to forget: a Margarita!

Have y'all a wonderful weekend and 

HAPPY SUNDAY!

~Susanne

HAPPY SUNDAY - #3 - 2012

~Susanne~

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Nature is so powerful...

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. 

It takes you to a place within yourself. 

Annie Leibovitz 

Hi my friends,

thank you all for your kind comments to my wordless Sunday post!

This new picture above is about weather, stormy clouds and rain. I made the picture yesterday in the same park where my "Wordless Sunday" photograph was taken. I had two minutes only to shoot, the wind was picking up like crazy and it begun to rain. Weather can change very quick here in the rainy season - I love to feel the big rain drops on my skin!

I hope I could catch the pretty spooky atmosphere that always reigns before the storm and the rain set in. I love the weather like this!!

Have y'all a wonderful Wednesday.

See you later....

~Susanne

Pep up those gray walls at home, bring colors in to your life!

My Wordless Sunday - # 32

Have a wonderful Sunday - Schoenen Sonntag allerseits - Buona Domenica per tutti - Je te souhaite une merveilleux Dimanche - Szep vasarnapot kivanom!

Bring COLOR to your life! 

Pep up those gray walls at home and in your office!

Photo - Swap - Thursday # 1

Hi Everyone,

Like all of you, I’m a big fan of Susanne’s work. I hope you will enjoy our Photo Swap Thursdays as much as I know Susanne and I will! This first photo was taken at sunset in Bodega Bay, California. The story behind it is below:

It was an ordinary sea gull doing nothing more than what sea birds ordinarily do. But the sun was dragging the light of coastal California back into the sea and launching its final spears of light at a craggy shoreline… It was too cold for crowds on the bluff, and soon it was only the bird and me. A fierce and chilling wind whipped my hair, blinding me until I turned to face its force directly. The bird soared effortlessly on its current, floating up again and again without twitching a muscle, merely tipping from side to side to catch the wind’s lift and riding the gusting draft as the sinking sun ignited sand and surf below…

A warm car awaited me. And dinner. A long drive too, during which I would be able to sink into my seat and watch the creeping night absorb the silhouettes along the road. The intensity of the chilling wind would fade instantly to a faint whistle when I leapt into the heated car. And so I could linger for a moment.

It was one of those perfect moments where the intensities of the external and the internal blend into a lasting sensory picture to file under “memories” in your inner library.

The wonder of this one was that I also got the photograph…

"Heather Dugan is a writer/photographer and voice-over/on-camera talent based in Central Ohio with clients worldwide. A frequent traveler and lover of the outdoors, she is never without her camera or running shoes.

Her travel adventures are chronicled on "Footsteps" www.heatherdugan.com/blogNEW

Writing samples/article links and recording demos can be found at www.heatherdugan.com. "

Perspective...

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
Robert Morgan

 

 

 

Hi my friends,

Thanks for liking my post from yesterday - what about this one? 

I like the quote too...

Have a wonderful day!

~Susanne

Yes, my new CALENDARS 2011 are available to buy - make someone happy!

Click in the links in the right column >>> yes, there  :)) you can buy them directly there.

My friends and fans in Europe: scroll down a little bit more and there you'll buy the new CALENDARS, o.k.? 

Meine Freunde in Europa kaufen meine neuen KALENDER 2011 hier: 

klicke in die Links (deutscher Text!) in der rechten Kolonne auf meinem Blog, o.k.? 

Du kannst sie direkt von dort beziehen!

I have always loved the Beach

“I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.”

~Anonymous~ 

 Hi my friends,

almost unbelievable, it's Friday and weekend is around the corner - again! 

It seems for me that's Friday all the time...*smile*...

Have a wonderful Friday and many thanks for the comments.

Susanne

Add some color to your life!

My Wordless Sunday in 2010 - # 4

Good Bye Juergen!

It's a sad time for me today and I don't want to say to much words because I lost a good friend of mine!

Good Bye Juergen, see you soon in the other world and then we will have time to take long walks at the beach - We all are missing you!

Labor Day Weekend at the Blue Lagoon

In the U.S. we are celebrating a long weekend, the "Labor Day" Holidays.
I wish you all out there a relaxed long weekend - where ever you are, at the beach, in the mountains, hiking or biking or just enjoying to be home with your family and kids:

Have a wonderful day!

What a beautiful Day!

It's just another day in paradise!

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Let's go to the Beach

It's weekend again and it's time to go to the beach.

Meet you there...?

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A short Trip up to Marathon

Yesterday we took a short trip up to Marathon and stopped here and there on the way. This picture shows a inviting privat beach scene at Geiger Key.


Gestern haben wir einen kleinen Ausflug gemacht, die Keys hinauf bis nach Marathon. Wir hielten an diversen netten Orten, wie an diesem kleinen, sehr einladenden Beach auf Geiger Key.




Most everybody dreams of having a little island like this for their own privat getaway. Do you? It's right here in the Keys, come and get it.


Soviele traeumen von einer eigenen Insel wie diese hier. Gehoerst auch Du dazu? Sie ist hier in den Key's, die Insel deiner Traeume!

This is a view out from the car of the 7-Mile-Bridge who is connecting Big Pine Key and Marathon together. Between is nothing than water, water, water.... to the left the emerald green water of the Gulf of Mexico on the other side the deep blue of the Atlantic Ocean.

Dies ist die 7-Meilen-Bruecke, welche Big Pine Key verbindet mit Marathon. Dazwischen liegt zur linken Seite das jadegruene Wasser vom Golf von Mexico und auf der andern Seite das tiefblaue Meer des Atlantischen Ozeans.

Almost there..... Marathon is just some miles away and visible already.

Bald sind wir dort, nur noch ein paar Meilen zu fahren, Marathon ist bereits in Sichtweite.

This is the view on the way back home to Key West: the old 7 Mile-bridge on the right and the new bridge to the left in the sparkling late afternoon sunshine.

Auf der Heimfahrt wieder nach Key West sieht man rechts die alte, nicht mehr befahrene 7-Meilen-Bruecke und links die neue Strasse im glitzernden Abendsonnenschein.

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Sunset at Smather's Beach

Pastel colors, captured in the very last sunbeams at Smathers Beach in Key West. I call this picture "Palm Cuortains".

Ich nenne dieses in schoenen Pastelltoenen gehaltene Bild "Palmen-Vorhang". Es entstand in den allerletzten Sonnenstrahlen an Smather's Beach, nachdem die Sonne bereits seit einigen Minuten untergegangen war.

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Gray and Rainy Day in Paradise

It's a gray and rainy day today in paradise - let the sunshine in...!

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Palms, Palms, Palms

Palms at Smather's Beach

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