and balmy breezes off of the gulf....

The weather is definitely getting better:

and the water is getting bluer:

and the guardian to the gates of Sanibel smiled at us:

and snow was not allowed:

 and the mangroves were just as we left them last year:

and the ibis stopped to say hi:

and the Great Egret invited us to lunch (the hapless creature in his mouth is a Brown Anole.