Panama City Beach

Our Thanksgiving getaway.
Ocean Towers II
Panama City Beach, FL

Oh, Christmas Tree!
Oh, Christmas Tree!
How lovely are thy branches!

The view from our bed room.

The view from our Living Room.

A camel by the beach!

Ahab, the Magnificent

My dear friend,
Jo Ellen Huskey,
made this purse for me as a bespoke piece.
The work that she did is incredible!

The are beads, bells, and tassels everywhere!
There is an African design on the inside
along with my name.
The designs were designed, digitized,
and embroidered by Jo Ellen.
She also constructed the purse.

I own several of her purses
and never leave home without
one of them.

Her work is magnificent!

Jo Ellen and her designs
can be found at
http://www.huskeyembroiderydesign.com/

If you own one of her designs,
you are very lucky, indeed!

Camel Beauty Pageant

ABU DHABI - More than 10,000 camels from across the Gulf will be competing for millions of dollars in prize money at a beauty pageant for the “ship of the desert” in Abu Dhabi next week.

The contest is part of a camel festival being staged from Wednesday in the capital of the United Arab Emirates which aims to celebrate and preserve the region’s cultural heritage.

Camels from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia will strut their stuff before a panel of expert judges who will decide which owners should be awarded prize money totalling around 9.5 million dollars. One hundred cars are also up for grabs.

“Preserving the rich heritage of the UAE and passing it on to future generations constitutes one of the most important missions which people of the UAE wish to undertake, by connecting our culturally rich past with our aspired bright and prosperous future,” the official WAM news agency quoted festival organiser Mohammed al-Mazrouei as saying earlier this week.

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi, one of seven emirates that makes up the UAE federation, produced the world’s first test-tube purebred camel and has begun using remote-controlled robot riders in its camel races.