The "A Final Mish-Mash Of Photos To End Vacation" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Looking through all my photographs I have taken with both my Nikon DSLR and my iPhone.  A few days ago I posted some of my favorites from my recent vacation to the island known as "The Friendly Island"; Sint Maarten/St. Martin.  The Sint Maarten side is a territory of the Netherlands while the St. Martin side is a territory of France.  Between my camera and iPhone I accumulated close to 1,500 images which is easy to do in three weeks of travel around the island.  I hated to discard or file all of the photos that I never shared, so I thought I would add one more day of photographs to my blog so that I would have them to view again as well as share them with you.  Perhaps some are more interesting to me than to you, but I hope you can enjoy a few of the following photographs.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

One of the many variety of flowers that add color to the island.  Click on images to enlarge.

Shells abound on most islands, and St. Martin is no different than the rest.

I love to look for vibrant colors.  This is a closed restaurant that will come alive as the sun goes down.

I have a small sphere that I use to take photographs at times.  This one showed the beach chair I was sitting on at the time.

Taken with my iPhone in the Pano mode.  This is the far south-east end of Orient Beach where the coral fills the beach.  The colors are so beautiful as I stood overlooking the shoreline.

But, black and white can be just as beautiful at times. 

This is in Philipsburg, the capital of the Dutch side of the island.   In the distance is the Courthouse.  I added a touch of sepia to add age to the photo.

One morning I looked toward the land from the sea and saw this beautiful scene with the hill covered with fog. 

Someone had the need to paint the white heart on this building that is sadly the norm on many parts of the island due to Hurricane Irma that struck two years ago.

I was visiting with an island woman who opens her home to the stray cats and dogs.   This poor kitty looks out the window to see when she may get her next meal.

A display of Cairns covers the beach at the south end of Orient Beach at a resort destroyed by the Hurricane.  Many take the time to build these monuments in hopes it will perhaps help bring the resort back to life.   

This little guy enjoys the foliage as much as I do, but in a different way.

Two kite surfers dot this seascape as seen from the multi-colored ocean view.

One more black and white of much the same scene as the last photograph.

This was a reconstructed building that at one time was a convent in the town of Philipsburg.  It flies the flag of Sint Maarten.