These marinas are cities within cities. People in them live semi-nomadic lives and form communities; coming and going with the wind. The marina in Barcelona reminds me of similar ones close to home. I'm heading back and have been looking at my photos from there. Marinas are enormous along the Mediterranean. We have many in Florida, but I think they are generally not as big as the ones in Europe. Maybe boat life is more prevalent there. Anyway, I know an American teacher who leads on-line courses remotely from her boat in Spain or Italy, depending on the season. No house required; have a boat, laptop, and internet connection; and the world is your oyster.
Mulholland road in Parrish, oddly enough, dead-ends at a bridge. Because of that, it feels remote, even though it's in the middle of a housing boom. Living in suburbia as I do, the trick to doing local landscape photography is finding gems tucked away in plain sight. Even though I think I've found most, I'm pretty sure there are more. They are, by their very nature, not easy to find. I took this photo about five years ago, and today, as I drove by, the road is under construction. That means it's probably going to get more traffic and, extend past the bridge; meaning no longer hidden. But I'll keep searching for more spots like this in the suburban jungle.
I took this from the Green Bridge in Bradenton on a particularly bodacious evening. Does anyone use that word anymore? Bodacious is a west coast word, but I'm from there, so I get a pass. For some reason, a lot of new words come from California. When I was ten, I made up the word "bad" to mean awesome. I actually thought I invented that. Imagine my surprise when I heard it on TV. Surely I picked it up subconsciously somewhere. My vocabulary is not particularly great, enough to get by. But I do get impressed by words all the time. I love the dictionary feature in Kindle. Depending on the author, I might just spend a lot of time in there. It's not as easy as making up my own words, though.
