Around the house and town

Here are a few stray scribbles from when we were sitting around, or whatever we were doing in Florida...

 Driving down I-95 toward Orlando

The pond behind the Kid's house in pencil.   

Only one alligator! I think...  

And Ruru and I saw many birds some I had maybe not seen before.  

Spoonbills, egrets, tir-colored herons, the wood stork you can see below, and some ducks as well. Ospreys are there year round I believe.

Similar view, done in ink. 

This morning sketch of the pond is actually mislabeled as Sandhill Terrace.  

They dredge the ponds to get enough sea shells (read dirt) to build up the place and put houses on it.  It is a great fishing hole right behind the house as some of the grandkids can attest.

   

I took a short walk down the sidewalk in the late evening.

 Headed around the lake to see this fella. Barefoot because of the sunburn...

I had neither my binoculars nor a sketchpad, as I remember, 

so this sketch was done later, back at the house.   

Then later, after googleing it, I scratched out the original guess, as you can see.