[MD] another glimpse of Lila

[ian glendinning]

Ha, Escambia.
We love the gulf coast around there
- Gulf Breeze, Gulf Shores etc.
I this the white / aqua / turqoise you're talking about Margaret ?
http://www.ianglen.net/gallery/Gulf_Coast_Thanksgiving_2006/image32.html

Ian

On 2/21/08, Margaret Warren <carma at carmapro.com> wrote:
>
> Hi SA,
> yes - everything you said is correc; about the trees:
> we have very tall pine trees mostly -
> fairly close to the water and all over the place actually,
> inland too - they grow to over 100 ft.
> with just a bushy 'tree' part on the very top - they are
> called longleaf pines and we also have something called scrub oaks
> (short scrubby looking little oak trees)
> and palmetto bushes and of course other trees too - these
> are just the most predominant. Just a little farther inland we have
> big fat live oak trees and there is spanish moss hanging
> on just about all of the trees except the tall pines.
> We have Osprey and Eagles and Hawks - the Osprey make
> these really neat nests very high up in the tall pines
> and then fish out in the bay. We also have lots of
> Pelicans as well as the Herons.
>
> Our land happens to contain
> a patch of  'wetlands' which is where these tall reedy
> plants grow up - so it's  a marsh down to the water,
> but right around the water
> line we actually have a little sand beach.
> We also have a little creek that dumps into the bay
> there...the water is brackish at that point - part
> salt/part fresh. But 2 days ago though we watched two porpoises
> come all the way in from out in the wide bay part (that hooks up
> to Escambia Bay and eventually the Gulf, the Sound  and the
> intracoastal waterway)  past our dock and continue on down
> to where the bay turns into a river.
>
> We are about 6 miles north of the actual
> Gulf of Mexico coast - which has the typical
> white sand beaches and aqua/turquoise water.
>
> mm
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org
> > [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at lists.moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of
> > Heather Perella
> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:16 PM
> > To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> > Subject: Re: [MD] another glimpse of Lila
> >
> >
> >
> > Margaret:
> > > BTW to you and SA: dock is almost finished with a
> > > 400 sq. ft platform over the boat house
> > > which gives a stunning panoramic view
> > > of the bay. Every evening just after
> > > the sun sets - 3 sometimes 4 great blue herons
> > > fly low across the bay to go to their
> > > night time sleeping spots. A wonderful
> > > pattern...
> >
> >
> > SA:  Lovely, simply stunning!
> >        I wanted to ask you something about where you
> > live in Flordia.  Ok, I'm trying to draw a more
> > comprehensive picture.  You said you live  where there
> > is a bay, a very large bay, correct?  Also, grasses
> > grow in this bay near your shoreline, and didn't you
> > say you walked out into this bay, close to shore, due
> > to the shallowness of the water?  Also, you mentioned
> > how you hear thunderstorms move across this bay,
> > correct?  Any trees growing into this bay near the
> > shore?
> >
> >
> > SA
> >
> >
> >
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