much needed sunshine

florida is a wonderful place to visit in the middle of a midwestern winter. all week while i was there, the daytime temperature was 85 degrees and sunny, except for the friday before i left there were a few clouds and it sprinkled only briefly. the palm trees waiving in the breeze. the birds singing. the red breasted robins were down there, on their winter vacation. i said "hello" to them & told them how lucky there were to be vacationing down in this wonderful weather! how cheerful it was to see flowers blooming outdoors in February. it will be sometime before i see that at home here. by the way, i did not get to see the space shuttle launch. the individuals i was training with took us outside to see it, but they took us to the wrong side of the building, so we didn't see it from there. i was very disappointed. oh well. at least it went off without a hitch. the weather wasn't looking good just before & the weather forecasters had been predicting storms, but it turned out to be a nice partly cloudy day that day. 

i am home now. yesterday the high temperature was 2 degrees. windchills of -20 to -40. quite a difference. i am so glad i got to get away to the warm climate if only for a couple of days. i do need the sunshine. it makes such a difference. i went to the hard rock cafe at universal studios city walk in orlando on tuesday night (2/5). i was so excited to see such items as an outfit worn by freddie mercury - i had seen him in concert wearing that very same outfit for the day at the races tour. they even had johnny ramone's guitar. the next night we drove to daytona beach to see the beach. i walked along the beach, picking up tiny seashells while i talked to marc on the phone. he was experiencing a terrible snow storm back home. they got over 14" of snow that day. 

i must say that i although i miss the warm & sunny weather, i am so glad to be home. of course yesterday i had chores to do - laundry, grocery shopping and the like.  that means no time for studio work. that will have to come this week. tomorrow night i start my digital scrapbooking class. i cannot wait. i hope i like it. i do believe i will. how exciting! they haven't told us what we need to bring, if anything. i cannot wait to play with photoshop elements (PE) on my new iMac. how exciting.

 i do have more arial photos to share, of course! this is my green photo of wind turbines along the ridges of mountain tops between florida and chicago.