¶Garlic prep.
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¶Renee checking the recipe before getting underway.
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¶After washing the basil, we were ready to start prepping the other ingredients—nuts, lemon (zest and juice), cheese, salt, and garlic.
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¶Renee prepped a second batch of basil while waiting for mom.
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¶Mom’s turn!
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¶Renee washed the basil leaves after separating them from the stems and stalks.
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¶Renee, dad, and mom prepping basil, separating leaves from stems and stalks. We had plenty!
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¶We started in the field, picking basil right from the plants in the ground.
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¶The farmer’s dog Harley checked us out and followed us around a bit. Beautiful and sweet dog!
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A bird stands on a rock wall as the sun sets over the Gulf of Mexico as viewed from Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (Upham Beach, St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶We caught an absolutely beautiful sunset this evening after a brief storm rolled over the beach and out to the Gulf.
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Lightning strikes above a condo building on Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶Thunderstorms rolled toward us tonight, coming into St. Pete from the Gulf of Mexico. Another opportunity to catch lightning on the iPhone.
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¶Planes and pancakes this morning at one of our favorite breakfast spots—The Hangar at Albert Whitted airport in St. Petersburg. We had a great morning for it, too, with plenty of planes coming and going.
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¶Happy Friday indeed!
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¶Here’s to thunderstorms and sunsets, in that order. A hastily-made old fashioned.was the perfect end to this day.
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¶The timing of the storm was perfect, leaving great cloud cover in its wake for a beautiful sunset.
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Lightning strikes the Gulf of Mexico as seen from over Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶This is my second favorite shot of the storm.
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Lightning strikes the Gulf of Mexico as seen from over Upham Beach in St. Pete Beach, Florida. (St. Pete Beach, Florida)
¶We had perfect thunderstorm conditions tonight–one rolled over us, heading northwest out over the Gulf, right before sunset. It had quite a bit of lightning activity, too. I didn’t have time to setup my full frame camera, so I grabbed the iPhone 12 and attempted to catch lightning.
¶I shot for about twenty minutes, capturing about a hundred images, each right after I saw lightning. This was frustrating and fun at the same time–I kept probably seven. I’m posting two.
¶It gives you a real sense of the time it takes to process what you see and turn it into action. Frustrating to watch a lightning strike and then feel your finger hit the button a millisecond (or more) too late. Seven out of a hundred plus is decent, I think!
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¶The cell phone lot at Tampa International is really well done, complete with a a drive-in theater style arrivals board, restrooms, and vending machines. EV chargers, too! Puts the lot at Detroit Metro to shame. Well done, TPA!
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¶Red Wings with a bullet. The Yzerplan is coming together nicely.
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¶There’s a lot to criticize about Tropicana Field. It has some positives, though. Just look at this photo–The Trop clearly has the most interesting geometries in all of baseball! Besides the beautiful shapes that all baseball fields share, look at the rings of the catwalks, the radiant supports on the roof, and the way the left field foul pole just stabs through it all.
¶And a bonus for this game–our seats were ever-so-slightly out of plane with the third base foul line.
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¶The Touch Tank, in all its glory!
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¶Having Harry with us provided an excuse to visit the Touch Tank at Tropicana Field. We haven’t visited that in several years, despite going to several games over those years. I think it’s clear from this photo who was most excited about it.
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