Really Florida!

Sorry I’ve been away for so long, and hopefully I’ll be back in a more regular mode of writing soon.

But meanwhile, I wanted to share something that happened with me this morning.  Call it the “tale of the wood storks”.

David and I decided to go out to breakfast this morning, and once we got to the restaurant, who should be strolling along the road but a momma wood stork and her two babies.   They didn’t seem particularly surprised to see people.

Well, we left momma and babies by the car and went into the restaurant.  About 5 minutes later, who comes strolling along the sidewalk?  You guessed it — the wood stork family.

We asked our server about them, and Nikki said that they come by all the time.  Occasionally they will tap their beaks on the glass window and stare in.  And naturally they are always interested in food (although the restaurant staff doesn’t feed them — it’s prohibited by state law).  It still doesn’t prevent the wood storks from hoping anyway!

I wish I had brought my camera along, so I could have taken pictures of these rare birds.  But I never thought to see any just walking by a restaurant!

Goes to show you — in Florida, just about anything is possible.