March 30---Tradewinds park for another pretty sunset:

Another rainy afternoon.   Angie was back to working on her house---packing more boxes and grouting the last of the tiles in the master bath.  It's now done and beautiful!  We didn't have anything to do there, so didn't go by until after sunset.  Wanting something different then Loxahatchee for a change, I suggested we go to Tradewinds park for sunset.
We got there early enough that I was able to wander around.  I was infatuated with horses in my childhood.  Going here reminds me of those days.  An added bonus was the rainbow that reminds me of Mom--she use to wish me lots of rainbows.

I even got to see birds.

There was even a gaggle of Egyptian geese.

and a pony.

and lots of pretty horses.

 They look to be well taken care of.

 walking over to the bridge and beyond.

 yellow wild flowers!  Haven't seen them before.

Love that the trees are starting to bloom, too.  They really do have seasons here in S. Florida.  There are several trees that loose their leaves in the winter and now they are beginning to bloom and leaf out.

looking east from the bridge.

 looking towards the equestrian area from the bridge.

 ibises flying overhead in an orderly fashion.  Sure going to miss seeing all the large unique birds all over the place.

Looking towards the pastures from the bridge.

sun starting to set and lighting up the clouds to the East.

heading back over the bridge.

a sunset rainbow to the East.

 Almost set.

 amazing how quickly the clouds filled in!  Before I could get back to the car, it was pouring.

Stopped by and visited with Angie a bit before heading home.  Another great day in paradise!

March 29, 2016---surprise gorgeous sunset!

Apparently while we were on our little Georgia trip, it rained pretty hard here.  We had even heard that Sample Rd. near us was flooded.  When we dropped the car off at Angie's house, the neighbor said a river was running down their street, too, and it was higher then they had ever seen it.  The line of leaves showed where the water was up to.  We spent awhile raking them up.

 It was cloudy all day today and in the afternoon we had another deluge of 3.77" of rain in Coral Springs---along with some impressive lightening. 
Angie was suppose to fly home tonight.  She did, but her plane was delayed by about 2 hours.  Apparently the plane was coming from Ft. Lauderdale and the storm we had closed the airport down for about 2 hours.  Anyway---I was sitting at my computer desk messing around with the pictures I took in Ga. when I just happened to look up and was shocked that the sky was lit up so brilliantly!

So I snapped a couple pictures from our bedroom/computer room window.

About 10pm we headed to the grocery store to get her some food staples to start tomorrow off with and then took off to the airport.  At least her flight went well and we were back at her place by midnight.  Now it'll be back to working on the house for the next week or so and finally getting it on the market.

March 28, 2016---back to Wakodahatchee:

Figured it would be a good day to go check out the progress of the bird nursery at Wakodahatchee, so I did.
Lots of tri-colored herons in their mating plumage and nesting.

The baby great blue herons are really getting big!

 The wood storks are still building nests

The cattle egrets were also building nests

the stilts were just hanging around

 lots of wild flowers blooming.

a purple gallinule just wandering around.  I looked for it's cousin, the swamp hen, and her babies that I saw last time I went, but couldn't find them.  I hope the flooding or alligators didn't get them!

There are baby great blue herons in several areas of the wetlands.  They all seem to be about the same age.

an anhinga hiding.  Some of those babies are off and flying now.  The others are getting close.

part of the walkway

 a female red winged black bird.

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This was the big find of the day----nesting Limpkins.  I've only seen a couple Limpkins before (never here), but here was a pair up in the trees prepping a nest.

 across the path from the Limpkins is this Green heron's nest with egg in it.  The heron was close by.

Since I hardly ever see these guys, I'm adding a couple more pictures of them.

 A cormorant.  There were a few of those guys born the same time as the anhingas. 

  Another wood stork carrying nest building material.

a great white egret with nest building material---haven't seen any of them with babies yet, either.

I guess the birds are use to seeing humans around.  Some of them let you get really close.

 the feet of the cormorant.

another great white egret building it's net

 the 3rd set of baby Great Blue Herons. 

a female greckle

a large fish---looks like an algae eater.  With all the birds here, I'm a little surprised they can find enough fish to feed themselves and their young.  

March 26, 2016---heading back to S. Florida (Easter):

One of the reasons we went to Georgia with Angie was so that she could stay a little longer and we would drive the trailer back and turn it in.  The one way rentals were quite a bit more then a rt rental, so she's returned the trailer each time so far.
We left shortly before they left for Easter mass.  It was another cloudy day, but not bad for a long ride.  It was nice driving through rolling hills.  

 more wisteria
Love photographing old barns---even at 70 m/h.

and colorful countrysides.

I believe these are pecan trees.

I also noticed (finally) all the huge old oak trees in S. Georgia and even into N. Florida.

Lots of cows, too.

 And lots of pine trees.

Don't know what Navy base this is associated with, but it always reminds me of my Dad and his years in the Air force.

 Another old barn---the more dilapidated the more interesting.

 Would love to see the furniture that I presume they'll make out of these pieces of wood.

On to the Florida Turnpike and all the privacy walls.  Up by Orlando I noticed they even paint the stamped in designs.  In S. Florida, they're just recessed.

 S. Florida scrub lands.

Getting down into S. Florida.

10 hours later we were back in our current area of Coral Springs.  

I had dreaded the long ride, but it really wasn't too bad.  I must be getting old!  I'm finding it easier to just sit around for hours on end!