Textures

To celebrate our wedding anniversary and to escape the cold and snow, my hubby and I traveled by plane

(de-icing the plane as seen through the airplane window)

(The scrubby gray and lime green plants covering the "mountain" contrast with the deep blue sky dotted with floating white puffy clouds.) 

to the lovely, warm, semi-arid tropical Caribbean island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. 

We "discovered" a most gorgeous beach, Happy Bay.  Rocks emerge in various configurations at one end of this lovely crescent of sand.  

Time to return home.  Our flight out has been significantly delayed.  We miss our connector.  The airline puts us up for the night and we get about 2½ hours of sleep.  The upside of this is we get to watch a beautiful sunrise from the window of the plane.  ( I will confess to you that it's rare for me to ever see the sun rise.)  Here we are on top of the clouds!

LINK:
past POST on textures

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photos by me  © 2014  all rights reserved  (all iPhone except photo #2)

umbrellas

 The perfect place to be on a cold snowy winter day!

Sint Maarten, Netherland Antilles/Saint Martin, French West Indies

LINKS to past posts on St Maarten:

(mostly for my benefit, but if you wish to see only a few more photos, click on any of the links marked with ◄)

ONE  maps of the island + a couple photos 

TWO  sunset

◄ THREE  Baie Longue/Long Beach

FOUR  bird  

◄ FIVE  Cupecoy

SIX Pointe de Bluffe

SEVEN Sunset over Cupecoy 

EIGHT  Sint Maarten (planes flying over beach) 

NINE sunset

◄ TEN Sail Away (#1)

ELEVEN  Sint Maarten kitties 

◄ TWELVE  island

◄ THIRTEEN  Sail Away (#2)

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photos by me © 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010



PS:  I am on vacation.  (Yes, somewhere warm!)  I will visit you upon my return.