My Wordless Sunday in 2010 - # 8

Cats sleep anywhere

This cat is waiting that someone opens that door for her

and in the mean time taking a little nap can never be wrong :))

Captured in Charleston, South Carolina.





Cats sleep anywhere



Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair.

Top of piano, window-ledge, in the middle, on the edge.

Open draw, empty shoe, anybody's lap will do.

Fitted in a cardboard box, in the cupboard with your frocks.

Anywhere! They don't care! Cats sleep anywhere.



Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965)





Hi my friends,



I hope you like the cat poem - and the picture too. I'm a big cat lover. If I would have a big house and all the time it needs to take care well to those wonderful animals, I would have MANY of them.

Maybe in my next life, I will....*smile*...



Since my biggest job in these recent last days has become to be a nurse for my ill hubby, I have decided, maybe not to post every day anymore for a while. But for sure I'll bring up my "Wordless Sunday Photos", don't miss it tomorrow!



I hope you understand, that I want to spend more of my time differently and I will be posting only twice or sometimes 3 times a week, from now on.

The health problems of the "Love of my life" have to be fixed first.



And a creative pause is always good for every creative person - to regenerate your mind and soul!

See you tomorrow - and don't forget me totally. I'll be around on and off.

Susanne









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Make your sail...

Sky bird

Make your sail

And every heart will know

Of the tale

Songbird

Make you tune

For none may sing it

Just as you do



read the whole lyric here







Hi my friends,



Thanks for all your comments yesterday. I appreciate all your visits!

I'm not in the mood to talk so much, I hope you understand.

See you tomorrow - here on this spot.

Susanne







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Looking out for the good catch

Captured on my travels in the swamps of South Carolina.





Hi my friends,



thanks for the comments to my orchid photo from yesterday,

I'm happy that you liked it a lot.



This pretty white Heron bird I've captured in one of the swamps in Cypress Garden in South Carolina. He was not distracted at all from the clicking sound of my camera on

his hunt for a good dinner. Isn't he beautiful?

And now I have to bring hubby again to the ER, he is still ill, it's getting not better at all!!

Susanne





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Phalaenopsis Orchid

I LOVE Orchids!

Phalaenopsis

are among the easiest and most rewarding orchids to grow. An American Orchid Society demographic survey showed that Phalaenopsis have become America~s favorite orchid. The plants adapt well to the environment of the home or office. From the time that the first flower bud opens, the sprays will remain in bloom for the next 2 to 3 months.

LIGHTING

Sufficient lighting is a must for successful cultivation. Phalaenopsis prefer either an east or a lightly shaded south facing window. West windows should be used with caution. Depending upon the location of the home, the west window may become very hot during the late spring through early fall. The foliage on your Phalaenopsis may burn.

TEMPERATURE

Phalaenopsis thrive under normal household temperatures. For the best results, provide nighttime temperatures between 60 to 65°F and daytime temperatures between 75 to 85°F.

WATERING

Depending upon the temperature, Phalaenopsis potted in bark should be watered about once or twice a week. During the summer, the plants may need to be watered every 4-5 days. The rule of thumb for watering should be as followed : More heat more water, less heat less water.

Phalaenopsis potted in New Zealand sphagnum moss should be watered less often, about every 7 to 10 days.

Phalaenopsis prefer to be kept on the moist side. This does not mean that they like to be left in standing water,however try to water the plants early in the day so that the foliage will be dry by nightfall. To prevent bacterial and fungal disease use Physan 20 once a month.

To learn more about Orchids, read here - you can buy them here too





Hi my friends,

I'm happy I could bring some sunshine to you with my beach scene post from yesterday. That's what my blog is for, to enjoy YOU with my pictures :))



Today we have a beautiful flower online - the Orchid. This one was the flower in the garden of my neighbor friend down in Key West. From her I've learned a lot about Orchids and I learned to LOVE these flowers and still do it today!

Aren't they beauties?



Susanne





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Just another day in paradise...

At the beach, just another day in paradise!







Hello my friends,



This is a picture to warm up your hearts, to enjoy and to dream about your next vacation. I have captured this photo at one of the beaches in Key West on a perfect day.



Actually, all the days are perfect down there - or almost perfect if there are no Hurricanes and other bad weather. I loved Key West very much, I was living there for more than 7 years and I've enjoyed my life on the island.



Thank you so much for your comments to my post of that Capricorn from yesterday.

See you here again tomorrow?



Susanne





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Hello, Good Morning....

Hello Good morning, how are you?

Talk to me, pet me...

Good Morning my friends,



I know for a lot of you it's already afternoon or evening - I'm a little bit late today.



I wish you a wonderful day and a great week ahead.

Thanks for all your comments to my wordless photo from yesterday, I'm glad you liked that one so much.



See you tomorrow, here on this spot?

Susanne





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My Wordless Sunday in 2010 - #7

Keep love in your heart

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Hi my friends,



how true is Oscar Wilde's quote! I wish you all a weekend full of love!

Thanks for the wonderful comments and compliments to my post yesterday.



Love you all!

Susanne

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What is he looking for?

What is he looking for?

Tips for Salt Water Fishing

Fish detect a meal in three ways — by scent, sound and movement. Fish use sound to communicate and find prey. Since sound travels faster through water than through air, fish can hear friends and food or saltwater lures that are a long way off. Scent is another powerful weapon for fish; they can pick up one particle of scent and use it to hone in on prey, communicate danger or navigate through the water.

Fish actually have a sixth sense that humans do not. The lateral line running down each side of a fish is filled with tiny hairs that can detect movement in the water. A fish can pick up a moving object, such as a fishing lure or bait, even in complete darkness. Just before it strikes, the fish will use sight to check out its victim. Even in clear water, fish can only see about 15 feet, but they can see colors and shapes. Finally, a fish will use its highly sensitive sense of taste to verify that what it has eaten is actually edible. To fool a fish, you must first fool all of its senses.

Live Saltwater Fishing Bait

When trying to trick a fish, nothing beats live fishing bait. Live bait may be hard to catch and hard to keep, but it's hard to beat when targeting finicky fish. Whether you catch live bait with a hook or a net, avoid touching the bait before putting it on the hook. The live well in which you store your bait should simulate current, oxygen content and temperature of the bait's natural environment. You can transport bait short distances in a bucket with a battery-operated aerator. When fishing with live bait, use the lightest hooks, leader and line possible to avoid further stressing the fish. Passing the hook through the bait fish's lips, eye sockets or nostrils will allow it to swim most naturally. Hooking the bait in front of the dorsal fin will encourage the bait to swim down. For delicate bait fish, tie a bridal out of rigging floss to hold the hook.

Read more about Saltwater fishing here

Hi my friends,

thank you all for your kind comments to my post a day ago. I had no time yesterday to post anything, it was a pretty busy day for me. But I'm back now and I hope you enjoy reading this one about salt water fishing. I'm not a fisher at all, I have just captured that guy at Cocoa Beach recently, while he was trying to catch some living baits. It took him long to get something out of the water - it's looks like that's something that people only with a big patience can do. I'm not one of them...*smile*...

Have all a wonderful day and Sunshine to you!

Susanne

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Do you like window shopping?

My window shopping in Charleston, South Carolina

Do you like window shopping?





History of modern shopping

Fairs and markets have a long and history that started when man felt the need to exchange goods. People would shop for goods at a weekly market in nearby towns. Then shops began to be permanently established. Shops were specialized , e.g. a bakery, a butchery, a grocer. Then supermarkets appeared.

There have been three major phases in the shopping / trading world in the last 100 years. In a way, these link up into a full circle.

1. Customers would be served by the shopkeeper, who would retrieve all the good on their shopping list. Shops would often deliver the goods to the customers' homes.

2. Customers have to select goods, retrieve them off the shelves using self service, and even pack their own goods. Customers deliver their own goods.

3. Customers select goods via the internet. The goods are delivered to their homes as in phase one.

It was 1878 in Dayton, Ohio saloon owner James Ritty was not a happy man. He suspected that members of his staff were stealing from his business by taking customer cash and pocketing it. Unfortunately, Ritty had no way of proving that pilfering was the problem. The next year he did. With the help of his brother, Ritty invented and patented the first mechanical cash register, named “ Ritty’s Incorruptible Cashier ”.

The last ten years have been a wild time on the Internet, especially when it comes to online shopping. The e-commerce industry has seen rapid growth, a shake out of the market due to security concerns, and finally, a rebirth thanks to new technologies and innovative ways to shop.

Read more about window shopping and shopping behaviors in general, here.





Hello my friends,



Thank you all for the many immense nice comments to my photo "RED". It was overwhelming to read all your wonderful thoughts and compliments.

I appreciate every single one.

I hope you like this one today too.



Have a wonderful day.

Love you all!

Susanne







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The Color Red

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
~Jules Feiffer~



Hello my friends,
Thank you so much for all the comments to my green color photo from yesterday.
Today I'm here in red :)

I wish you a great day!
Sunshine to you.
Susanne

The Color Green is for HOPE

Green Ivy in my yard - captured 2008 in Charleston SC

Any plant of the genus Hedera,

with about five species of evergreen woody vines (rarely shrubs), in the ginseng family (Araliaceae). The name ivy especially denotes the commonly grown English ivy (H. helix), which climbs by aerial roots with adhering disks that develop on the stems. English ivy is frequently planted to clothe brick walls. The stems bear leaves with three to five lobes; as the stems reach the top of their support, they become horizontal or hang, sometimes developing unlobed (entire) leaves and small greenish flowers. Numerous cultivated and geographical varieties of H. helix exist, including many with variegated leaves. Native to Europe and much of Asia, this genus has been introduced into many parts of the world.

Many varieties of ivy are cultivated in gardens. Growing them is an extremely simple matter, as they will thrive in a poor soil and endure a considerable depth of shade, so that they may with advantage be planted under trees. For example, the common Irish ivy (a variety of H. helix) is often used as a ground cover beneath large trees where grass has difficulty in thriving. A strong light is detrimental to the growth of ivy, but there are few hardy plants that may be compared with it for variety and beauty that will endure shade equally well. Ivies, in their many forms, are also popular houseplants.

A question of practical importance is the relation of the ivy plant to its means of support. A moderate growth of ivy is not injurious to trees; still, the tendency is from the first unfavourable to the prosperity of the tree, and at a certain stage it becomes deadly. Therefore thegrowth of ivy on trees should be kept within reasonable bounds. In regard to buildings clothed with ivy, there is nothing to be feared as long as the plant does not penetrate the substance of the wall by means of any fissure. Should it thrust its way in, its natural and continuous expansion hastens the decay of the structure. For unrelated plants called ivies, see Boston ivy; poison ivy.

Hi my friends,

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day yesterday! Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments, compliments and good wishes. I very much appreciate that.

I wish you a good start in the new week .

Sunshine to you!

Susanne

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To ALL my Friends...

HAPPY VALENTINE DAY to ALL my friends!!!

Thank you for your friendship and all your loyal visits to my blog.

Susanne

Yellowstone Lake

Scene at Yellowstone Lake, captured in May 2009

Yellowstone Lake

is the largest body of water in Yellowstone National Park, The lake is 7,732 feet (2,376 m) above sea level and covers 136 square miles (352 km²) with 110 miles (177 km) of shoreline. While the average depth of the lake is 139 feet (42 m) its deepest spot is at least 390 feet (118 m). Yellowstone Lake is the largest freshwater lake above 7,000 feet (2,133 m) in North America.

In winter, ice nearly 3 feet (1 m) thick covers much of the lake, except where shallow water covers hot springs. The lake freezes over by early December and can remain frozen until late May or early June.

Read more about the Lake here




Hi my friends,

Thanks for your comments on my post a day before.

Dave and I, we had not such a great day yesterday. We spent again some hours in the emergency room. Dave felt VERY bad again. Now, we got new pills, new inhalers and I know, it will be better for the next some days - if there would be no nights. In the night his terrible cough came back again and he could not breath well. And, I ask myself if this will be good ever one day at all? I cannot see my husband suffering so much and it seems no one of the doctors are able to help him!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!
Susanne



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On our last cruise

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
~Robert Louis Stevenson~


Hello my friends,
I love the quote I've found to this photo I have captured recently at Port Canaveral. The quote is short, easy to understand and so true!

I wish you a wonderful day on your last cruise!
Susanne



Well, for probably the last time:
I have some CALENDARS 2010 more left.
It's your last chance to grab one. Thanks!

House on the sand

"He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand."
~ Constance Naden ~


Hello my friends,

Yesterday I was to busy to post anything. I still want to say thank you for all your visits and kind comments to my Tsunami sign photo from Monday.
Thanks for coming back and to be my loyal friend.
See you tomorrow again :)

Have a wonderful day!
Susanne

In case of...

A tsunami (津波^?) (English pronunciation: /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/)

is a series of water waves (called a tsunami wave train) that is caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean. The original Japanese term literally translates as "harbor wave." Tsunamis are a frequent occurrence in Japan; approximately 195 events have been recorded. Due to the immense volumes of water and energy involved, tsunamis can devastate coastal regions. Casualties can be high because the waves move faster than humans can run.

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (detonations of nuclear devices at sea), landslides and other mass movements, bolide impacts, and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami.

The Greek historian Thucydides was the first to relate tsunami to submarine earthquakes, but understanding of tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and is the subject of ongoing research. Many early geological, geographical, and oceanographic texts refer to tsunamis as "seismic sea waves."

Some meteorological conditions, such as deep depressions that cause tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge, called a meteotsunami, which can raise tides several meters above normal levels. The displacement comes from low atmospheric pressure within the center of the depression. As these storm surges reach shore, they may resemble (though are not) tsunamis, inundating vast areas of land. Such a storm surge inundated Burma (Myanmar) in May 2008.

Hi my friends,

today we are learning something about Tsunamis. I have photographed the sign above at one of the pretty beaches here at the Space Coast in Florida. I've discovered recently that sign and for seconds I had all those sad pictures in my mind we got to see on TV, when that catastrophically big Tsunami hit Myanmar in 2008. And I realized in seconds, that it can happen here the same too, anytime. We hope and pray it will never happen!

Thank you my friends for all your wonderful comments to my "Wordless Sunday" yesterday, and for all comments ever. I'm happy you like my photos.

I wish you a wonderful day and as we say here in Florida:
Sunshine's to you! See you....

Susanne

My Wordless Sunday in 2010 - # 6

It's the artist business...

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
~ Romain Rolland ~

Hi my friend,

I know a lot of you are sitting just now up there in the North, covered again with a lot of snow and cold temperatures.

As you can read in the quote above, where R.Rolland says:
It's the artist business, to create sunshine.

Here it comes!
Catch the 1000 tons of sunshine from the Sunshine State of Florida - for YOU to ENJOY....*smile*...

Thank you all for your kind comments and compliments to my post yesterday, my friends. Love you all!

Have a wonderful day and please come back tomorrow also for my "Wordless Sunday" photo, here on this blog. Thanks!

Susanne

Pretty close to the ground

It's pretty close....!

This is the spot where the air plains in training are landing - and also starting - to their training flights. It's impressive and also scary looking, to see them fly so close to the ground.

Patrick Air Force Base
(IATA: COF, ICAO: KCOF, FAA LID: COF)
is a United States Air Force Base located between Satellite Beach and Cocoa Beach, in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It was named in honor of Major General Mason Patrick. An Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) base, it is home to the 45th Space Wing. Additional tenant activities include the 920th Rescue Wing, the Air Force Technical Applications Center and the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute.

(If you are interested, read more about PAFB on Wiki here)

*****

My last CLENDARS 2010, still available. Hurry up and get one!

Remembering the warmer days

When the days in Florida were warmer than now...


Hi my friends,

This picture is almost nostalgia just now - it's still cool here.
For sure not a weather to swim in the ocean, not for me :)

Thank you for all the kind comments to my yesterdays post.
See you tomorrow again?
Susanne

One Flap of a Seagull

“One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever”

~ Konrad Lorenz ~

Hi my friends,



thanks for writing me such kind comments and compliments on my blog. You brighten up my day - because it's dark and rainy here in Florida where I'm sitting just now. And more rain is predicted for in the later afternoon. Anyway, one day... the sun will be back for sure, it's the Sunshine State and the name only is promise enough, right? :)



Let the sunshine in - and see you tomorrow again.

Susanne

Looking out for waves

I don't know what this young lady was looking for, but it was fun
looking at her and the play of the waves

splashing waves - and the next one was already building up

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~Swami Sivananda~

Was she looking maybe for her complete peace?....*smile*...


Hi my friends,

Thank you for all the visits and for all your wonderful comments. You make my day with every single compliments. I love to share my pictures with you, love to share my thoughts and my little moments in life. Thanks to be my friend on this blog!

I wish you a good day, have a great time - and come back tomorrow.
Susanne


I know, it's February already, but I have still some CALENDARS 2010 left.
Who wants one?