Showing posts with label Hammock Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hammock Park. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Butterfly Garden On Warm Sunny Day

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Butterfly Garden On Warm Sunny Day Well, let's face it, it's cold outside right about now. I mean, not just a little chilly. I get that. But right now it's cold out there. So I choose denial at the moment, and I post this picture of a moment in time that was much, much warmer. It's 43 and dropping as I write this. Meanwhile, this photograph was taken on a warm sunny day when the temperature was more like 85 degrees and rising.

So I present a picture of the Butterfly Garden at Hammock Park, in Dunedin, Florida. A picture taken earlier in the year, showing how beautiful Dunedin can be, especially in her parks, and how warm and sunny the weather is here most of the year.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Boardwalk Sunny Day Summer Reminder

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Boardwalk Sunny Day Summer Reminder It's 44 degrees outside right now, and the wind is blowing like crazy! This is not at ALL Florida! :) I took this picture earlier in the year, and it seems like this might be a good time to post it. Just a warming reminder of warmer times and calmer weather.

This shot is of the boardwalk at my favorite local Dunedin city park, Hammock Park. It's a beautiful park right near downtown. Which means it's close enough to where I work that I can get there at lunchtime for a nice relaxing walk. On a day like today, however, I kept my walk to the few blocks close to work, so I wouldn't get too terribly chilled before I got back to the office. I know lots of you out there are lots colder, but the predicted 30's for tonight are really cold for this area. Keep warm folks!
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Boardwalk Shelter

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Wildlife Wilderness Boardwalk Shelter I've said it before. It's no secret. I love Hammock Park in Dunedin, Florida. It's a wonderful, peaceful place to wander about and unwind. It's also a great place to see some wildlife, and enjoy some wooded areas that are more like what Florida should be, or used to be at least. I've been to the park a number of times for a lunch break, and it always brings a little more relaxation into the rest of my day than would be there otherwise.

If you are looking for a nice place to stop and get away from the frantic pace of work for a while, or a good place to get close to nature without having to drive for an hour or two, visit Hammock Park and learn what all the fuss is about for yourself.
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Butterfly Garden Beautiful Red Flower

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Butterfly Garden Beautiful Red Flower I had the pleasure of strolling the new Butterfly Garden at Hammock Park during lunch one day recently. It was there I came upon this brilliant, beautiful red flower. It reminds me of some sort of Hibiscus, but please don't quote me on that. Either way, it is a very pretty blossom, and I have no doubt that it must be quite attractive to butterflies.

The Butterfly Garden at Hammock Park was created by the Friends of the Hammock group, and is very nicely done. I suspect it will only become more and more wonderful as it becomes more established. This is a real treasure of a park, and I would encourage you to join Friends of the Hammock to help support it.
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Saturday, May 3, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Finale: Bridges To Cross

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Finale: Bridges To Cross It's true, we all have bridges to cross. Many of them, in fact, throughout our lifetimes. I couldn't help but notice the two bridges I came across in Hammock Park, and wonder about all the bridges in my life.

On a larger scale, you could say that we, as a country, have a bridge to cross, and that we, as a species (Man) have many bridges to cross in the future. Some of them worry me.
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail Lunchtime Hike Bridge

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail Lunchtime Hike Bridge Ah yes, we all have our bridges to cross, don't we? Well, I crossed this one happily, lost in the dense 'forests' of Hammock Park. No, it was not difficult, it barely qualifies as a bridge, but I certainly enjoyed getting to the other side.

What about you? How goes the bridge crossing? I guess, depending on what is going on in your life, there are plenty of bridges to represent the varying degrees of difficulty or triumph of your endeavor. This one might stand for just getting to work on time, and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, that spans the mouth of Tampa Bay, might represent beating breast cancer. How about you, what's your latest bridge look like?
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail Lunchtime Hike 2

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail Lunchtime Hike 2 This is just the thing that makes me long for more time in my life. Not just an extra hour or two, although I would gladly take them. But hours and hours of free time, time that I could spend however I want without penalty or price.

Then I would find a little spot in the woods like this, and sit there with my camera, or without it, and just wait. I would sit there and wait and watch and observe. I would let the forest sounds play to my ear, and I would seek out each different sound as I sat. Then I could truly hear what was being said. I could get to know the world so much better. Not the human world, the fabricated, manufactured world, but the real, natural world... That would be a wonderful thing.
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

Monday, April 28, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park: Nature Trail Getaway

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park: Nature Trail Getaway If you are on a nature trail in Florida, don't forget to look UP too! You never know when there might be a delicious harvest of juicy citrus fruits dangling just overhead. I saw ample evidence of the local fauna enjoying these citrus fruits, with small piles of peels on the ground beneath the trees.

It's been some nice days of lower humidity lately, and we are still not into the truly hot months yet. So it's been very enjoyable walking the shady trails of Hammock Park lately. I imagine it will still be nice as the summer reaches its peak, as long as you can dress in shorts and a light shirt.
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail: The Little Things

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail: The Little Things Look down! Yes, don't forget to look down! That's were I found this little fiddle head, at about knee level. What an incredible thing, nature and life... this little fiddle head will grow and uncurl and expand to become a beautiful fern.

Are you familiar with Fractals? That's what this reminds me of. Nature's own fractals. I love to be able to get away from work during the day and enjoy some of the amazement that is nature and the natural world around us.
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail Lunchtime Hike

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Trail Lunchtime Hike Here is a little bit more of what Dunedin probably looked like before all the houses were built and streets paved. In fact, this might be what a lot of it still looked like when the Fenway Hotel opened, in 1925! Yesterday, we first started on the Vivian Skinner Grant Trail N. But that is a large, wide open trail, and we are looking for something more intimate, a trail that will get us closer to nature.

So we take a sharp right turn, and start on a much smaller trail. The map is a little confusing. We are on either the Oak Trail W. or the Cline Trail. Either way, it is smaller, more quiet, and takes us deep into the woods (for just a little while). This picture makes me think of Robinson Crusoe. What do you think?
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

Friday, April 25, 2008

Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Lunchtime Sweet Escape

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Dunedin, Florida: Hammock Park Lunchtime Sweet Escape Sometimes, you just have to get away from it all for a while. Especially if you sit in an office crunching numbers all day. So welcome to my lunchtime escape. I offer you a virtual mini-tour of Hammock Park, in Dunedin, Florida.

So I had a very nice lunch break, enjoying a quiet walk in the woods, listening to all the birds and crickets instead of printers and copiers. Of course, it made it even better to have my camera and capture some of the beauty. This tour will cover just a small part of the park. It would take too long to see it all on a lunch break. But rest assured, we'll be back for more!
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If you would like to see more of this area, check out Clearwater Beach Daily Photo, and Clearwater Daily Photo. If you enjoy photography, check out my photography blog. Thanks for coming today, I hope you enjoyed your mini-vacation to Dunedin, Florida!

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