Debbi's Front Porch: January 2014

Sunday, January 5, 2014

I love a parade!!

I love a parade!!

Scenes from this year's Christmas Parade downtown:

As Always............loved the sound of the bagpipes!!

ICE SKATERS

FESTIVE GREYHOUNDS!

PIT BULLS ON PARADE!

.....and a few scenes from last year's parade too

How bout you?......did you love the parade? Did you attend this one, or another?

Saturday, January 4, 2014

This is what January looks like in our Lowcountry!

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Downtown Charleston enjoyed a nice variety of musical notes provided by Mr. Clarence McDonald on New Years Eve!

Greetings to all my old readers and blog friends! After more than a year's absence, I am so happy to be back! I had surgery and many things to attend to this past year. I am looking forward to happy things in 2014 and catching up with everyone, and making new friends! Now on my way to visit your blogs and catch up! Please please zap me a line or leave me a comment and let me know if y'all are still around, okay? Thanks!
Other scenes downtown:

(the gorgeous tree in Marion Square) Probably our last look at it this year. Not sure what day they take it down. Probably very soon

A great concert in the Square! Loved the band!

A fire twirler down by Market

Love the NEON!! HOW BOUT YOU?

Gorgeous December flowers blooming

Festive balloons outside S.N.O.B.

Below--more street scenes:

Yes, it was a very Charleston New Years Eve!! Enjoyed it so much!!

There is nowhere better than Charleston to see the brand new year come in!

Will end this post with pictures of the lovely tree lit up in the middle of Colonial Lake, always one of my favorites to go see!

Tonight's Micromoon--we watched it rise over the Battery tonight, it was red and orange

Skywatchers in Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones will get a view of the full moon tonight (Sept. 13) at 11:32 p.m., 10:32 p.m. and 9:32 p.m., respectively, while East Coasters will see the moon at its fullest at 12:32 a.m. on the 14th. Regardless of time zone, the moon will appear just a bit dimmer than usual (eerie!), because it will be at apogee, or its farthest distance from Earth. That means that the moon will appear about 14% smaller and 30% dimmer than when it is at its closest point to Earth, which is known as perigee. (Livescience.com)

LETS END KILLER WHALE CAPTIVITY!!

Please research the captive killer orcas that the SEAWORLD franchise holds captive. It is animal cruelty at it's worst. Those killer whales need to be FREE, NOT HELD CAPTIVE BY us humans and forced to do 'tricks' for our amusement. (and to make SEAWORLD a lot of money. ) Please go watch BLACKFISH when y'all have time okay? also read "Killer at Seaworld". You will learn so much and I doubt if you ever pay entrance fees to enter SEAWORLD or any of it's affiliate parks again.........because you will learn what the money really goes for........PROFIT. Their profit...........the poor whales gain nothing. But life captivity. Sad lonely lives in bathtub size enclosures where they cant even interact with their own pods and offspring normally. Many of them are so sick and die very painful deaths.The 'breeding' program is a joke. They are not even allowed to procreate in a natural and normal manner. The whales that were caught in the wild were taken from their pods and their mothers in a very cruel and inhumane fashion---it is heartbreaking. It's awful sad. Please research and then let me know what you think, okay? Whales are magnificent creatures, I love them. I tell everybody it's okay to love them and to want to go see them......but please go to areas where you can view them in the wild either from the beaches or cliffs or from boats. Not from cement swimming pools where they are mis-treated, gawked at, and forced to 'perform'. God created them and intended for them to exist in the seas! They really need to remain free........................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OEjYquyjcg

(please watch)