“Would you like a grilled cricket?” the young woman said while holding a bag of chilled mealworms. I attended ECHO Farm Day at Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization in North Fort Myers, Fla., yesterday. Founded back in the 1970s, it’s a global Christian organization believing in equipping people with agricultural skills and resources to reduce…
Happy Groundhog Day! To commemorate the day, following are snapshots from my Beanie Baby Groundhog’s adventure to Cocoa Beach, Fla., over the weekend. Why did I take a toy groundhog to Cocoa Beach? Because VISIT FLORIDA, the official marketing corporation for the state, launched a PR campaign last week stating Groundhog Phil couldn’t take the…
Driving along SR 520 in Cocoa, Fla., seemed less like a good idea the deeper into darkness I drove. My destination: Lone Cabbage Fish Camp on the quest for an affordable seafood dinner. I missed the turn for the restaurant because there are no street lights and couldn’t read the street sign. But, I did…
Mount Dora is cute, intimate and filled me with warm fuzzies. This a-DORA-ble town gave me the same feeling seeing a sleeping puppy emits. That feeling of releasing an “awwww” when seeing a cuddly canine. Downtown is charming with boutique shops and independently owned restaurants. There’s a small-town ambiance with an undertone of unpretentious big-city…
One could say the Frosted Mug in Venice, Florida, is historic. It opened in 1957 when the city, located south of Sarasota, had a two-way county road and was the only commercial business around. Fast forward to 2011 and the Frosted Mug is still going strong. The main drag it’s on, U.S. 41 – the…
With all the pomp and circumstance befitting a surrealist artist, including attendance by Princess Cristina of Spain, the new Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., held its grand opening on January 11, 2011, at 11:11 a.m. and opened to the public Jan. 12. I wasn’t there for the wonderful new beginning but visited the Friday…
I was feeling a little homesick for the Everglades so over the weekend I hopped in the car and headed south to Everglades City, Florida. Just having the afternoon to spend, I visited Ted Smallwood Store and Museum in Chokoloskee, took a boat tour through the Ten Thousand Islands in Everglades National Park, and ended…
Hey, there! Don’t worry, I’m still here. I’ve been trying to post about five times a week on this blog however my “day job” has been consuming me for about the past week including working through the weekend by hosting a media familiarization trip. (Basically it’s hosting members of the media in my destination in…
I saw “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella) at the Sarasota Opera Wednesday night. There was no fairy godmother, no singing mice, no pumpkin-to-carriage-to-pumpkin vehicle, and no glass slipper. Yes, my cultural exposure of Cinderella prior to that evening has been the Disney version. Thankfully, the core of the animated version is much like the opera version: Cinderella…
Oops! Realized last Thursday night I had forgotten to post a Wordless Wednesday image last week. The holiday weekend and business travel threw me for a loop. Sorry! But hope you enjoy this one taken at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Naples, Fla., Saturday. It’s of colorful lichen on a trail fence.
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