The old iron skillet

The old iron skillet is pretty good for baking biscuits

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Strawberry rhubarb jam and a cup of coffee for breakfast

 

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - Saturday is a day for experimenting with breakfast and putting aside the hard boiled egg and toast in favor of biscuits, scrambled eggs, bacon and coffee.  This has been going on for a couple of weeks as Lydia searched the internet for different recipes for "easy drop buttermilk biscuits."

     Most recipes were about the same, but then we found a baking idea away from using a baking sheet.  Hence the iron skillet.  And the skillet in the oven works great.  Now I have to shuffle cooking bacon and scrambled eggs to be ready close to French press coffee-time and hefting the iron skillet and biscuits out of the oven. The next goal is trying to figure out how not to get the biscuits oozing together as they bake.   No matter, big or small; oddly shaped or whatever, Lydia's biscuits are scrumptious.  

 

Just roaming around the neighborhood

A 'windy' egret

Some of our front yard hibiscus

Ferns growing on a piece of marl

Sun and shade

 

Waiting

ORMOND BEACH, FL - - Waiting.  We all do it.  And it's easy to see a reflection of ourselves in the wildlife world around us.  The pelicans in the top photo are patiently waiting for the guy cleaning his catch to throw some guts in the water.  So it's one eye on the on the guts and one eye on the competition for a snack.

     If the middle pic looks familiar it's because the photo is another angle / time of the great blue heron / water pipe shot from a few weeks ago at Viera Wetlands.   The early morning sun on the reeds lends a different touch to the breakfast watch of the bird.

     The final photo would have a lot more meaning if I had been able to capture the bald eagle as he was resting / waiting on the pier railing.  This was not a normal location to see an eagle so while I scrambled to take the pic a group of seagulls harassed the eagle to leave their territory.  The eagle is the largest / darkest object against the cloudy sky.

Can you dance??

What, me dance???

 ORMOND BECAH, FL - - A feeling of exuberance may have overcome this male sandhill crane  at Viera Wetlands last Thursday.

This nearby snail was not impressed

Nevertheless the warm-up moves were quite good

Until  his significant other told him to quit the foolishness.