Tag: tropical
member name: Janna O'Donnell
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November 15, 2007 05:36 AM EST --
It cracks me up when people want the dirt on Barbados. Truly, it has it's warts as do all countries but in my experience the good far outweighs the bad. The one thing that is a thorn . . .
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May 18, 2008 07:55 AM EDT --
My kitchen window faces west so every day that I'm home at sunset, I get a fantastic show. Each sunset is as different as a fingerprint and each has it's own beauty. Sometimes I gather . . .
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January 12, 2008 08:13 PM EST --
My husband recently gave me a great gift: we had a picnic on the beach and he watched the kids so I could take photos of the sunset. I got some great shots and I thought I'd share some of them . . .
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March 04, 2008 10:34 AM EST --
Oddly enough although I have posted the photos on Gather and asked many people, the positive identification came through a book called Wild Places that I was reading with my 6 year old daughter for . . .
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March 01, 2008 10:33 AM EST --
The one thing we always do with every visitor who comes to see us on the island is to take that lucky soul on a catamaran cruise. Our children look forward to it and so do we. It's the . . .
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June 06, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
The kids and I go on an evening walk around the neighborhood every week day. Last evening we found a Giant West African Land Snail making his leasurely way down the road. His shiny, beautifully . . .
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January 05, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
On the top of the ridge
Royal palms stand in a row
Dark silhouettes cut into the blue sky.
Below in the flat fields
Cane arrows raise golden heads to the sun
And wave slender . . .
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July 05, 2008 03:14 PM EDT --
We went on a wonderful island safari trip with our visitors from Sweden and when we stopped at Bathsheba beach, a gentleman with dreads was selling jewelry from a small suitcase. With him was his . . .
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April 10, 2008 06:51 AM EDT --
10. When people say they are going to "shout you" you expect a phone call.
9. You "give way" instead of yield in the round about.
8. You . . .
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February 15, 2008 08:31 PM EST --
With their cool elegance, nothing says beautiful like an Orchid. Orchids are some of the world's most exotic and expensive flowers in part because they are so difficult to grow. When . . .
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February 19, 2008 09:54 PM EST --
For those of you who just can't get enough orchids, I thought I would share some more of the wonderful orchids that we saw. I took these photos with my Sony Handycam.
The area around . . .
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February 22, 2008 08:48 AM EST --
I'm ashamed to say that like most people, we often fail to explore what is in our own "backyard." In our case, our free time is usually spent at the beaches--which are magnificent here, . . .
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December 19, 2008 05:42 AM EST --
Imagine hundreds of citizens flooding the White House lawn at Christmas time with picnics in hand. Imagine a stage set up on the lawn and everyone handed a candle to light and hold while they . . .
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November 20, 2006 11:52 AM EST --
All of you who thought we were living in an English
speaking country, I must correct your thinking. I
knew when a six year old girl at the pool here asked
me, "Do you speak English" after . . .
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November 25, 2006 07:18 AM EST --
Putting up the tree the day after Thanksgiving is a tradition in my family. We crank up the Christmas music, put up the tree, string the lights and then the real fun begins--putting on the ornaments. We . . .
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