Sarasota sunset Searching for one thing and finding another My wife and I had been in the Sarasota area for three days when I awoke one morning with the goal of photographing summer thunderstorms — particularly lightning. After breakfast, we drove to St. Petersburg’s Fort De Soto State Park looking for an unobstructed view of developing storms. Later, we saw the beginnings of a thunderstorm near Bradenton Beach, so we

Cedar Key is a rare area in Florida. The island itself is a fun place, complete with restaurants and shops and boats for hire, but surrounding it is wilderness filled with beauty at every turn. Dennis Creek is one of those scenes. Due to my recent stroke, I can’t stand for very long, so I took my walker out along the bridge over the creek and sat down, set up