I am so lucky to rent a apt from such a wonderful family. I love sitting outside with them when they get home from school. watching them play ,listening to there storys and having fun with stuey! here they made up a race which they made their grandma do with them. The rules and the race were totally made up as they went. It was so nice to sit and watch them run, jump and laugh!! They are truley a joy to be around!!

This is a stray cat from the hotel i work at. She is the sweetest thing if she would only stop having kittens. This cat and another momma and her kittens follow me around like puppy dogs. They know when i go for lunch they are gonna get scraps. If i go in the elevator they are at the door where i get off! As humorous as this is it is really really sad! I have spoke to the gm of the hotel personally , told him all about a special program the humane society has called the cat cafe. They will set up a feeding station and help to get the cats fixed so they can't reproduce more. And he choose not to participate. meanwhile this is the same hotel gm that had tile put down in the dining room to only two months later have it taken up to carpet! It really makes me sad that i can't help this cats. they are friendly let me pet them but not pick them up yet.They have started coming around to the frot of the hotel which i am afraid is gonna get them killed.

Its a shame this is how i got two of my three cats and can not have anymore.

here is a shot of american yacht harbor the day after hurricane omar was suppose to hit us. it is usually full of boats and today it is empty with boats slowly coming back and putting everything back together.

While i love love love my canon 20 d the best thing i ever did was buy a small pocket camera so i can get shots like this. I am not completly happy with the panasonic lumix but it is so nice to always have a camera in my bag ready at any time. these two cuties just stood there posing for me letting me fire away! got about 8 shots before they had enough!! This is a rare sight on st.thomas although we all know they are here there are really only a few spots you see them and never in the middle of the day like this was! maybe they knew the rains were coming and moving somewhere to hide but they really didn't seem in a hurry!!

while we are lucky enough to not have to deal with snakes here. this week it is the spider. the big furry spider! we have had a lot of rain here the last two weeks and i think all the creepy crawlys are coming out looking for dry land. which by the way is not my house. I woke up this morning to a huge puddle in my living room. my fault i left the door open and it rained through out the nite but with a mold count of 112 and no ac to take out the dampness i am waiting for furry things to start growing in my house. damp sheets and towels are the way of life here this week! oh and i am sure to check the sheets and blankets everynite to make sure nothing furry with eight legs is hiding!

Well we have been lucky enough to have all the recent storms miss the virgin islands. however it has not been with out some rain. Rain which makes for grumpy tourists and a grumpy me too. Hard not to be grumpy when in the morning i have to climb out the window to get to work cause the door has swelled and won't open. then i get into a wet car cause the soft roof is broken. i can go on and on !! So what do i do when the guests are grumping at me cause i don't know when the rain is gonna stop or what the weather is gonna be tomorrow? i go outside and take photos of the flowers!!