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Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos

Boca Grande, Florida

Boca Grande, Florida

Earlier this year we managed a reprieve from 2017/2018's harsh Minnesota winter. The beaches of Boca Grande, Florida played host to our family for a week while snowy Minnesota... got more snow.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Sand sculpted from the tides.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
A shape I cannot make.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
It was a great year for sand dollars!

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Boca Grande Rear Range Lighthouse.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
One of many sunsets on the beach.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Pictured are four generations of Reid/Moran/Sepeta ladies 🙂

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Washed up adolescent Bonnethead shark.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
My brother and father inlaws made this remarkable sandcastle. Passerbys were quite literally remarking on how neat it was!

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
Boca Grande sunrise on the beach.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
More Boca Grande beach sunrise.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
The whole clan heading out to watch the setting sun.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
A magnificent sunrise. Again, in Boca Grande.

Boca Grande Beach Gasparilla - Beach Photos
The seagulls were enjoying the morning, too.

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Middlemoon Creekwalk

Middlemoon Creekwalk – Minnehaha Creek

Middlemoon Creekwalk 2018

Yesterday evening we made the short-but-snowy trek to Lynnhurst Park to experience the 2018 Middlemoon Creekwalk, put on by Wintercraft. These great folks volunteer their time, skills, and resources to provide the community with a spectacular candle-lit evening walk down the last portion of Minnehaha Creek into Lake Harriet. They created a variety of ice globes, lanterns, and artworks that were then illuminated by candles burning from dusk and into the night.

We had the good fortune of getting to go during a snowstorm, and we wouldn't have had it any other way! Here are some photos.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Open water in the snowstorm - always a favorite.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
There must have been a thousand mallards swimming around, enjoying the human visitors.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Not quite dark, but getting there!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Had to go a little early to accommodate somebody's bed-time 🙂

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The lanterns hanging above the creek were among our favorites.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The lanterns IN the creek were also favorites!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The moving water was really interesting against the snowstorm and ice lanterns.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
More hanging lanterns.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
Getting buried in snow!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
We liked the bumpy texture here.

Middlemoon Creekwalk
So very neat!

Middlemoon Creekwalk
The frozen leaves were something to behold.

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