Thaw: Snow is pretty, but stoppit.

So, we've had worse winters here in the DC area (I'm looking at you, 2010), but few that dragged on quite as long as this one has.  This is surely true across at least two-thirds of the U.S., this year.  Today is St. Patrick's Day.  Baseball starts in two weeks.  SPRING officially begins in about three days!  And Winter had the audacity, the sheer rudeness, to dump nine or ten inches of SNOW on us, this morning.  It's not okay!

So.

Here are a few photos from warmer times and climes, a balm against the icy Thing That Wouldn't Leave...

Rehoboth Beach, DE - 1997

Rehoboth Again - 2001

Pensacola, FL - 2011

One More Rehoboth - 2001

Kill Devil Hills, NC - 2010

Lancaster, VA - 2010

Key West, FL - 1991

Islamorada, FL - 2000

Ft. Jefferson - Dry Tortugas, FL - 2000 - Photo by [Maris]

Gonna Need a Bigger Boat - Barbados - 1993

Sapphire Bay, St. Thomas, USVI - 1995

There.  All better.  Thanks for stopping by.  I hope to have some new material for this happy little place, like, soon...

Paradise 101 - Caribbean Blue

In 1993 I visited several Caribbean islands as I cruised aboard Carnival's Festivale. The ports of call included St. Thomas, Dominica, Martinique and Barbados. While there wasn't time to get to know any of these fascinating places, there were at least photo opportunities galore...

Magen's Bay - St. Thomas, USVI

Roseau, Dominica (It's not all sun and sand!)

Rainforest - Dominica

Crystal Bay Beach Club - Barbados

Crystal Bay - Barbados

This is how palm trees look when you're too comfortable to get up off your beach towel to photograph them. Martinique.

Festivale at sunset - Barbados.

Water Island - St. Thomas, USVI