{"id":56,"date":"2011-04-12T02:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T06:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-01-21T02:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:05:39","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now, for Something Completely Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know, I like to take pictures. As a kid, I tooled around with my all-manual Minolta SRT-201 and thought I was hot stuff. Until, that is, my brother Steve picked up a camera. It was instantly clear that he was the one with creative talent, so I dropped the hobby and didn&#8217;t take another photo for decades.&nbsp;Four years ago, a good friend who loves electronic gadgets and knew I was leaving for a month-long trip to Europe gave me a lovely gift &#8212; a digital camera that could fit in my pocket. I&#8217;ve been having fun with it ever since, without a trace of sibling rivalry, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I know this has nothing to do with real estate, but I thought you might enjoy seeing some wildlife pictures I took&nbsp;recently on an extended trip to&nbsp;Florida.<\/p>\n\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser default-view'\n\t\tid='ngg-imagebrowser-4a353a4be5c2aad23a81873d4f64bca9-56'\n\t\tdata-nextgen-gallery-id=\"4a353a4be5c2aad23a81873d4f64bca9\">\n\n\t\t<h3>Florida-2276<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"pic\" \n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/wildlife\/Florida-2276.jpg'\n\t\t\ttitle='Eastern Lubber Grasshopper'\n\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/wildlife\/Florida-2276.jpg\"\n\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/wildlife\/thumbs\/thumbs_Florida-2276.jpg\"\n\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"122\"\n\t\t\tdata-title=\"Florida-2276\"\n\t\t\tdata-description=\"Eastern Lubber Grasshopper\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-simplelightbox\" rel=\"4a353a4be5c2aad23a81873d4f64bca9\">\n\t\t\t<img title='Florida-2276'\n\t\t\t\talt='Florida-2276'\n\t\t\t\tsrc='https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/wildlife\/Florida-2276.jpg'\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser-nav'>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='back'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='ngg-browser-prev'\n\t\t\t\t\tid='ngg-prev-130'\n\t\t\t\t\thref='https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/nggallery\/image\/p1170896a\/'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='next'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='ngg-browser-next'\n\t\t\t\t\tid='ngg-next-124'\n\t\t\t\t\thref='https:\/\/www.neighborhoodspecialists.com\/blog\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/nggallery\/image\/florida-2371\/'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='counter'>\n\t\t\t\tImage\t\t\t\t1\t\t\t\tof\t\t\t\t22\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser-desc'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Eastern Lubber Grasshopper<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know, I like to take pictures. 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