...in no particular order....
1) Chubby toddlers in bathing suits, covered in sand, plastic shovel in one hand and bucket in the other, running headlong toward the surf.
2) Mommy squirrels, fat with spring babies, barely navigating the top edge of the fence as they head back to their nest in the trees.
3) The ferocity of the ocean when a tropical storm looms off the coast. Black waves contrast against the pounding white surf. Leaning into the wind to look at the clouds racing across the horizon.
4) Margaritas at sunset with a view of the gulf coast sky.
5) The wild kingdom in my backyard (even though I live in a typical subdivision of houses with tiny quarter acre yards). tiny (but deafening) tree frogs, toads big as softballs, lizards and more lizards, geckos, the occasional black snake, the juvenile raccoon that walk the fence each night, an armadillo every so often, blue jays, mocking birds, humming birds, finches, doves, woodpeckers, well fed fuss budget squirrels, little fruit eating rats eating the fallen oranges...
6) Seeing an osprey fly across the road with a fish flopping in it's talons almost every week.
7) the beach, the ocean
8) Driving across the bridge on the way to work and seeing dolpin's fins rolling out of the water as the sun is rising.
9) Nine months of good to great weather and only three months of unbearable heat.
10) Dancing in the rain on the back patio.
11) Screened in patios and hammock's
12) Listening to the herons and egrets settling in for the night in the trees around the pond down the street from my house.
13) Alligators - living dinosaurs. So graceful in the water. Always powerful predators.
14) Red eared turtles sunning themselves around fresh water ponds and lakes. Head and all four feet stretched up and back in the sun. Stacked on top of each other.
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