ALL TAKEN AT CELEBRATION AROUND LAKE 1

 Little blue heon, our favorite

 Large turtle

 Yellow-rumped warbler.  There are hundreds of these all around.

 Looking into the woods along the walk.

This is for David, who wants to see some green for a change.

White ibis

2011 Sun. Jan 16
We went to Starbucks at Celebration this morning before going to church there at the Presbyterian Church. We drive by it every time we go to Celebration (which is a lot!), so we gave it a try. Good, not great, will go again. Home for lunch and watched the Bears win. They looked great until late in the game when it was obvious they would win - then they let up a little. After the game, we went for a long walk around the resort. I took video of the area and got some good video of the sandhill cranes. They walked within a few feet of us and were not scared of us at all. We were along the entrance road to the resort, and there is only about 8 feet of grass between the road and the pond. We were in that area, and they walked between us and the pond. They even walked on the road, and cars had to stop. They have no fear of people or cars. 
Lite supper here, then watced the Golden Globes.  'The King's Speech' had lots of nominations, but only Colin Firth (who played the king) won.  Maybe more awards will come at Oscar time.

FL WEATHER: High 69, low 47, partly cloudy, no breeze. Rain tomorrow, but warm.

FL NEWS: Florida immigration reform isn’t going Arizona-style:Within an hour of becoming Florida’s 45th governor, Rick Scott signed an order meant to ensure that anyone working for the state was in the country legally. But the E-Verify system, a federal database available to employers, failed to identify those workers as unauthorized 54 percent of the time, according to an audit released last year. Investigators discovered that was the percentage of illegal workers incorrectly deemed eligible for work. Meanwhile, it looks like the Arizona-style anti-immigration wave that helped float the political fortunes of candidates like Scott is getting a reality check in Florida. Although Republicans walked in virtual lock-step during last year’s elections on the need to import the Arizona immigration law, the idea is getting a rough reception in Tallahassee. Florida law-enforcement organizations don’t want to open themselves up to accusations of racial profiling. Florida’s agricultural barons – who rely heavily on migrant workers – aren’t supporting it. And tourism groups fear it could chase visitors’ tax dollars to other warm climates. The new Florida Agriculture Commissioner, a Republican who has wrestled with immigration reform, said, “Cutting and pasting the Arizona law is not what’s right for Florida.”