Our first stop during our Volusia County tour was Ponce Preserve. It’s a park that has a combo of opportunities to experience the original natural Florida tidal area of this part of the east coast. See the site for details. It’s a GREAT park and well worth the trip whether you take the boardwalk, the […]
Sandra, myself, my brother, Jeff, and our father made our way to Lakeland to the Florida Air Museum. I was feeling lousy, the illness still godding me. We purused the various planes and the history of air flight in Florida. This is a great historical compliment to combine with a trip to Fantasy of Flight. […]
We had lunch with Tom and Glenda Armstrong at the 1945 created Linger Lodge. Known for it’s fine Southern fare, it’s been recently bought by others and now has a “chef”. The food showed it. Worse, no fried chicken that I was looking forward to.
Though less than what was once there, the Linger Lodge can […]
I was stopped by my elementary school which was celebrating it’s 81st year. The school was open to the public so I got the chance to roam the halls and snap photos. Click here to see one of the photos at Genuine Florida.
Above is a piano I found in the upstairs auditorium. It looked old […]
I attended the monthly meeting of Orlando Remembered. Here are drawings of Robert Serros, Dan Pottinger and, the ever graceful Grace Chewning.
A clipping from the Sentinel Star was brought in of a large group of children who were celebrating birthdays. Most known by the group at the meeting. Member Duke Crittendon estimated the photo to […]
We made our way to Apalachicola to celebrate our anniversary. Sandra had us staying at the historic Gibson Inn and we had dinner at the restaurant inside- Avenue Sea. The sketch is of a table setting in the restaurant.
On Friday we wandered Apalachicola. I had to go back to the room for a while as […]
We made a trip to White Springs so that Sandra could drop off a ton of materials for the upcoming hiking festival and to test a hike she will be leading a “V.I.P.” group on Saturday. The test was to see how much of the trail was passable due to recent high water levels of […]
I was out in southwest Florida. While there I roamed Punta Gorda. See a couple photos by clicking here. Then I was in Englewood where I saw a bobcat in the Rotunda development. See the bobcat photos by clicking here.
Then I found the Cape Haze Trail. To the right is a sketch I made of the […]
I gave a talk of the history of Movies in Florida to the Moveable Feast group. I included drawing (Though not as much as I had planned) along with travel ideas as to how to visit locations where Florida films were made. It all dovetails with the map brochure I created for VisitFloirda last year […]
I recently acquired this brochure for the collection. What a great design! I’d stay there just based on the art!
For more Coronado info., click here to go to Genuine Florida.
I made a trip to Umatilla to go to a booksale and found Florida historical opportunities! For more of that you’ll need to click here once I link it.
Otherwise, here’s a sketch of the inside of the old 1800’s Ferran Department Store in Downtown Eustis where I got some drawing done Saturday afternoon. Please excuse […]
This was a great read! A very well constructed book of the life of Mel Tillis from his birth in Tampa in 1932 to when the book came out in 1984. Lots about growing up in east Hillsborough County and around Pahokee. Fun to learn the poor to middle class Tillis family had a bakery […]
More Stops. We nabbed some doughnut goodies from Thomas Doughnuts. We toured the Wesley House at Eden State Park. Then a walk though Camp Helen State Park. Then through Panama City and on to Apalachicola.
After touring through Apalachicola we went looking for dinner and had one of the few bad experiences at a restaurant we have had. […]