The End: Alphabet Soup

And so we come to the end of yet another odyssey with Alphabe-Thursday!  What a challenge it has been at times to come up with a creative post for the current letter of the alphabet.  I've enjoyed this journey with you, my readers and fellow Alphabe-Thursdayers, sharing our posts and lives. 
Thanks, Jenny!  You've created a fun and inspiring community!

(You can click on any of the following links to go to that post.)

A  abstract  a painted garage door in Asheville, North Carolina

B  blessings

C  Apple Cranberry Cobbler a most delicious recipe

D  child + dog  frolic in the sea

E  Eager Oliver is...

F  a few favorites four (very) random photos

G  gorgeous Mount Edith Cavell a hike in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada












H  Hell (Grand Cayman) a real town on a Caribbean island

I  Oliver's guide to the letter I










 



J  January random photos  

K  kimonos  my Brownie troop studied Japan, decorated kimonos, and ate at a Japanese restaurant













L  light four photos

M  metal four photos










 


N  Northside a small community of traditional, classic, and eclectic...everything.






 



O  Oregon random photos from a trip 











 

P  peaks photos from a hike to Hidden Lake near Logan Pass in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

Q  quiet Sint Maartin  












 


R  Green Bean, White Bean, and Tomato Stew   recipe!  

S  flower scenes  










 




T  textures five photos

U  umbrellas Happy Bay, St. Martin, Caribbean

V  beautiful view: Happy Bay

W  water four views from Banff and Jasper National Parks, Canada 





 




X  xerophilous four photos  

Y  yellow photos of six yellow things 













Z  random Zs four photos

 

THE END

LINKS:
POST   Alphabet Soup I
POST   Alphabet Soup  II
POST   Alphabet Soup  III
POST   Alphabet Soup IV
POST   Alphabet Soup V

Dear Ms.Jenny, 
I LOVE Alphabe-Thursday!  Thank you so much for hostessing this awesome meme once again!  You have created a wonderful community of bloggers.


It is often challenging to come up with a post for each letter as well as committing to posting for every letter.  But it is so much FUN!
So begins Round 9 in which we start with the Letter "A."    Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun!  

NOTE:  You do not have to post for every letter.

 
photos by me © 2009 - 2014  all rights reserved

beautiful view: Happy Bay

Last week I posted a photo of umbrellas behind a rock on Happy Bay.  This week I'm showing you more views of this beautiful beach.

To get to Happy Bay (Anse Heureuse) on the French side of St. Martin, one must first go to Friars' Bay.  At the far end of this beach, there is a path through the trees and over a few rocks.  It's about a 10 minute fairly easy hike.  

almost there.  But first go through this gate:

Say hello to the cow and bull.

(See the horns?!)


arrived!

Look closely at the middle of the far right and you will see the blue and white striped umbrellas.  The rock cairns are in front of them.
I believe that people simply enjoy stacking rocks, so when they come to the beach and see them available they begin.  Someone else sees a cairn and makes one, too.    
             

Piles of rocks are exposed on the beach and in the water at one end of this crescent of golden white sand.

LINKS:
Uncommon Caribbean 
a few photos
Rum Therapy more photos showing the beautiful beach as well as parts of the path 

Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Ms Jenny, is so much fun!  This week our letter is "V." Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun!  









photos by me  © 2014  all rights reserved  (Some are iPhone.)

umbrellas

There are people sandwiched between the umbrellas and the rocks sporting numerous cairns at beautiful Happy Bay on St. Martin.

Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Ms Jenny, is so much fun!  This week our letter is "U." Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun! 



PS:  The big rocks were put there on the beach by nature.  For fun, people have come to the beach and built little rock cairns on top of them.  Sometime in the near future, I'll post other photos of Happy Bay.  There are more large rocks in the water and on the sand on one end of this lovely bay.    

photos by me  © 2014  all rights reserved

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

Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Ms Jenny, is so much fun!  This week our letter is "T." Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun! 

Come join this awesome meme SkyWatch Friday and link up! Meet folks from all over the globe!  SkyWatch Friday is hosted by Yogi, Sylvia, and Sandy.

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

quiet

a quiet beach somewhere on St. Maarten

Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Ms Jenny, is so much fun!  This week our letter is "Q." Come visit others' submissions HERE and join in the fun! 


 

photo by me  © 2009   all rights reserved

Feeding

Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten

I don't know what kind of bird this is, maybe a tern.  If anyone knows please tell me!


LINKS:
Avabase  the world bird data base-Sint Maarten
Les Fruits de Mer  Saint Martin birds

Wordless Wednesday--where I linked up: 

  The Art and Tree Chatter of Aquariann

Create With Joy

  

photo by me © 2014  all rights reserved

Water

Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

very moody landscape with the silvery blue river winding into the distance and cloud covered snowy mountains in the background 

Takakkaw Falls, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada

Flowing from the Daly Glacier of the Waputik Icefield, Takakkaw Falls is one of the highest waterfalls in Canada at 1246 ft (380m).  Takakkaw means "magnificent" in Cree.

water on the windshield 

Sint Maartin, Netherland Antilles at regatta time

I'm linking up with my favorite teacher, Ms Jenny Matlock, as we work our way through the alphabet.  Please do go visit the other students, for you never know what gems you may find--humor, poignancy, information, visions of far away places, stuff you've never even dreamed of!  Check it out HERE.  You may even wish to join in yourself!  This week our letter is "W." 

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