The fog blew off and yesterday dawned gray and cold with a cold north wind making the place cold. Did I mention how cold it was yesterday?
Shown above is my hands down all time favorite ice cream parlor, Flamingo Crossing at Duval and Virginia. I prefer their tropical fruit flavors -soursop tops the list- but when it is less than 70 degrees out it's hard to think of ice cream. And for people who live here it felt cold yesterday, really:
My every effort to photograph Duval Street ends up in failure in my mind, but I keep on trying. I can't seem to photograph the essence of what I'm looking at. Perhaps the street itself is too much of a jumble to captured in one measly digital image, or a dozen, or any number.
There are lots of galleries and interesting shopping on this end of Duval. I'm planning on coming back down here to check out the Blackfin Restaurant with an interesting menu and not expensive entrées. It might be really quite good and the ambiance looked excellent. I hope a review will follow soon. 
Eclectic stores abound. 
Petronia at Duval is covered by an arch with the emblem of the Bahamas- onward and upward they say. 
An office for a grand all thrown in? Sounds like a deal and you might want to live there- illegally of course. 
Some bits of Petronia look really quite grand. There was a wall standing alongside here to no visible purpose. Now it's gone and I'm still none the wiser as to what it was doing there. 
This next structure put me in mind of New Orleans. In a good way. 
The back of Curry Apartments with a No Trespassing sign that seems superfluous to me. 
The Bahama Market is hanging on but the property is still up for sale. This old sign will be gone one day presumably. I think the weathered wood looks gorgeous. 
Light was fading as we closed in on 6pm. 
How can you not be entranced by Key West's architecture? 
And you can own some of it: 
But don't forget there are disadvantages to being in Old Town. 
I prefer Labradors. 
I was ambling down Whitehead and the light was going fast. Playtime was over in Robert Gabriel apartments. 
It was a good day for Cheyenne. And me too, even though it was still far too cold for Key West.
It was a good day for Cheyenne. And me too, even though it was still far too cold for Key West.
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It was a balmy 43°F in Bellingham today. A welcome change from temps in the 20s over the last week or so. Still, I would much rather have your weather. You did hear Florida's the only state with no snow on the ground, did you not? This time of year, there's even snow in Hawaii. A mountain on the Big Island is high enough to get snowed on. But in Key West a mountain is, what, six feet above sea level?
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Scootin' Old Skool
It felt like snow yesterday. I got home just after dark and the inside of the house was 67 degrees. I immediately turned the reverse cycle heat on.
The weather people pointed out there is no snow in Florida but the northern tier of the state is freezing cold. Too cold for me.
That wasn't a wall on Petronia - that was a building which had lost it's roof in a blow a number of years ago. It was for sale with the walls standing' the owner then tore down the bldg to sell vacant land.
And yes - it is cold.
Chuck on Fleming.
brrrrr. My house is kept at 68 degrees, with the price of oil at 3.05 a gallon. I can't wait for warmer weather.
It was in the single digits here the last couple of days and there is snow all over the ground. I'm tired of winter...
My house is kept at what ever mother nature sets it at. 54 degrees in the kitchen this morning. Tile floor felt colder. I'm really appreciating my morning cup of coffee this time of year. It should be in the 70s and 80s this weekend in SoCal. I'm looking forward to that.
Sod Mother Nature. I was so excited last year when I discovered our new a/c unit had reverse cycle heat.
Lots of people in the Keys don't have heat and the cold saps their resistance to the snuffles.
Last winter people were running out fo socks the cold was so prolonged. This sucks. At least it was sunny today. And my ride home in the morning will be 55 degrees? Yuck.
I'm in the Florida Panhandle, and it is indeed cold--we got down to 25 this morning, with a wind chill. While we don't have snow, we do have frost and icy windshields, and my car had to think a bit before it started this morning.
I'd rather be in the Keys, this time of year, but that whole employment/money thing is standing in the way. Bummer.
The price you pay to live here is to pay high rent in a noisy town with lots of not laid back neighbors.
On the other hand...
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