Sandhill Cranes

A beautiful family of mother, father and two chicks!

WHAT A FACE!

 

I believe this is the father.  The mother was out of camera range, but was close-by keeping her eye on me!

July 4th - Fireworks - Stuart FL

This is my new favorite place in Stuart; a coffee / food / bar called Coffee Bar Blue Door.  We had a vegetarian breakfast sandwich, some ice green tea and espresso.  It was all wonderful.  We like the place so much that we even went back after the fireworks!

Oh, this place is SO cute - inside and out!

 

I loved the inside.

 

There is outdoor seating in a beautiful garden area.

 

The place has so much character and charm.

 

I love the little decorating accents in the place.

 

The food was very good and the service excellent!

 

Vegetarian breakfast sandwich

 

 

OMG, delicious raspberry bar

 

Espresso

 

They serve a large variety of beer.

 

My fun day in Stuart ended with an amazing fireworks display put on by the City. 

 

 

July 4th, 2013

It was a great Fourth of July in Stuart, Florida.  The city is charming and filled with a lot of quaint and fun shop.  They put on a wonderful July 4th spectacular, with music, food and an amazing fireworks show at night!

 

Stuart has lots of patriotic spirit!

 

This is a park on the water - it was beautiful!

 

I loved all the unique shops. 

 

 

I loooooved this shop in Downtown.  It was called Earthtones.  It was like an art museum; a great place to buy a unique gift for someone or for yourself.  It had everything you could possibly imagine.  I loved it!

 

This is the door to the dressing room - even it was unique!!

 

I loved these biker gnomes!

 

This was a boutique called Aphrodite Style.  The lady was so nice and helpful.  It had a lot of clothing, cool purses and jewelry - and the prices were so reasonable too!  Great shop!

 

 

This Yogurt shop was exactly what I needed on a hot July day.  They had yogurt, with a million toppings, or ice cream, or what I opted for - amazing gelato!  I am not sure if the name is Yogurt or Hoffman's; both those names were on the shop.

 

 

You fill your dish with any of the yogurt choices.

 

OMG, the gelato was soooo amazing! 

 

Huge choices for toppings.

 

Gelato - delicious!

 

This is a very clean, friendly place!

 

Fireworks!

 

Downtown Stuart (FL) put on a nice pyrotechnics display tonight!

 

(Click play button to play video.)

 

Independence Day!