Trip to Florida: Part Three

Here we go..

on to Part Three of my Florida Photos!

We ALL can use some cheerful flower pictures

THIS time of year, no?:

I was totally smitten with this large Ibis by our hotel.

He had GREEN around his eyes.

GREEN, people!!

I LOVED it!:

SEE???

See why I was smitten"??!!:

My feet in the Atlantic ocean.

By the way, the Atlantic was SOOOO much warmer this year than the Gulf waters!:

(Try NOT to look at my freakish bunions. My apologies for the nightmares ahead of time).

A kayaker!

(I would be too afraid of high waves and huge fish. God Bless him.):

A very cool dead tree on a rest stop when we first got across the Florida

state line.

We stopped there last year too because it was such a pretty spot!:

Palms leaves!!!:

A lovely, fuzzy, pelican head:

One of the delights for me every time I go to Florida

are the Pelicans.

There are always some by our hotel:

There are plenty more pictures of my Florida adventure....

so keep stopping in!!

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Don't forget to enter the March 2011 FREE PHOTO CONTEST!
This month's theme is:

RED

That's right...use your imagination and send me your winning photo for the theme of red.

You don't have to be a Blogger to enter...
just follow
THESE RULES
and enter no later than midnight, on March 31st.

Finally!! We have a WINNER for the January's FREE PHOTO Contest: Theme: Bridges

So sorry folks for being so slow in first showing you the entries 

for the January's 2011 FREE PHOTO CONTEST

with the BRIDGES theme....

and now for being so slow in

announcing the WINNER!!!

I just heard from the final judge 

TODAY!!

So,

Drum roll.....PLEASE!!!!!

The January 2011 winner IS:

Congratulations BILSOT!! His blog is called: "Amateur Photographer".
It is in Greek, but don't let that scare you...go to the bottom of his blogposts and there is a little box
to translate his posts into English and other languages!

A gorgeous photo!

Here is what he said about the photo:

The name of that bridge is (in GREEK) "To gephyri tis Plakas" That is " The Bridge at Plaka place ".
It was built in 1863 and the location is at the mountains of Tzoumerka , about 800 m. over the sea level.
The name of the river under it is Araxthos. It is a very nice place all over the seasons of the year.

I'd say it sure is a beautiful place and he captured it so well!!

Honorable mention also goes to:

--Sara from Greyt Days

--Eva from Wresting with Retirement

--Muffy from Muffy's Marks

and

--Connie from Far Side of Fifty Photos

Again, the judges had a VERY hard time deciding on a winning photo. I often get remarks that say that everyone of them is gorgeous and that they changed their minds several times after looking at them over and over....

So every ONE of you should be very proud....the submissions/entries just keep getting better and better and more and more creative.

I am so proud to host this wonderful contest.

Keep submitting every month...we all enjoy what you send in, sooo much!!

Thank you to my wonderful judges!!

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Which reminds me....

PLEASE remember to send in FEBRUARY 2011's entry

for the theme of:

OLD BARNS

Send me your photo no later than midnight on Feb. 28,2011

following THESE RULES!!!!

You don't have to be a blogger to enter!