Vero Lake: Living in the Country here in Florida

So this cute frog/toad in my cardboard palm yesterday, so cute!  Growing some nice green peppers in my backyard!  Love all my flowers and Zinnias!  So so blessed!   

  I love when my friends come to visit! Especially this one! I have seen him come in my backyard many times. Usually when I am sitting on the lanai saying my rosary. Yesterday, I was in the backyard and he was there. He even let me get really close, stopped and stayed for a while. I always talk to him. I told him how pretty his shell design was as it had a tessellating hexagon shaped design on his back.  I use photos to teach me. I like to import them into GeoGebra software and then do the math on the photos using all the tools in GeoGebra. The turtle stopped and was still for a while so I took a few pictures or his back shell and on in front. He did not seem afraid. It is always a pleasure to see all the wildlife all around me here in Florida. I love seeing the ibis, the limpkins, the moorhens, even the other day when I was driving toward the beach I saw a small black bobcat cross the road on Orchid Island and run into the woods near the beach I go to. I  guess they ar...

  This is the second huge yellow grasshopper that I have seen in my area! He is huge! In NY I remember a lot of them, but smaller green ones, Here I have seen many types of colors, this yellow one is amazing right here in VLE! 

I love when these feathered friends stop by for a visit! My mother always loved birds! It is always such a pleasure to see the Ibis in your yard and coming for a visit!  WE are blessed here with so much wildlife!   

  It was nice to see this visitor today when I was sitting on my lanai saying my rosary and reading this afternoon. This friend came right up to me while I was sitting there and then kept walking to the flower patch. I love seeing all this wildlife here where we live. It is nice to have woods and a lake close by and to hear crickets and frogs at night, it is very peaceful here for the most part. It is nice to live in the country here in Vero Lake Estates! We are all blessed! 

  We are so blessed to live just 10-15 minutes from like five great beaches here in Indian River County! Wabasso Beach is so nice, I love Golden Sands the best, but we are lucky and blessed to have like five beaches all just minutes away with free parking to boot! Where I lived in Palm Beach County previously, you have to pay at most beaches. The beach has been calm for the past week or so. The water is so nice. Just a short drive down on 85th Street/Wabasso Road and you are at the beach! What a blessing from God! 

Visited by turtles and cardinals! It is a real blessing here at our new country home!   

  The beach has been very lovely the past few days! So blessed, nice weather and good beach times. This evening we finally got some much needed rain, thank God! Life is better when we count our blessings!