Words and images to inspire your travel, nature photography, my dream spots, historical places to explore, and healing nature
Today I’m sharing older photos from my posts on beautiful Bok Tower Gardens, An Island of Tranquility. It’s one of my favorite places in Florida. I have visited periodically throughout the years. It is a woodland contemplative garden with carillon concerts from Bok Tower during the day.
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My final post from James and Heather’s vacation before returning to teach school in August is their trip to Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania. It was the site of a pivotal American Civil War battle from July 1-3, 1863. It is considered the turning point of the war. Managed by the National Park Service, it is a popular tourist attraction and offers visitors a preserved landscape with hundreds of monuments and markers to explore. The battle at Gettysburg was the largest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
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Before I share more photos from James & Heather’s little holiday several weeks ago, I must share an outstanding photo I saw on Facebook. A woman in West Virginia captured a one-in-a-million rare photo of a lightning bolt striking a tree. Photographed by Lonnie Lania. All I can say is WOW!!!
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James, my nephew, and his wife, Heather, took a little vacation before school started. They’re both teachers and love history. James is currently teaching world history in a high school. Last week they went to visit Monticello. Photos are shared by James and Heather. Thank you! (I visited it in the mid-1970’s, and you do NOT want to see my photos from my little Kodak!)
Let’s take a step into the fascinating and complex world of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. Jefferson, the third president of the United States, is pictured on the USA nickel, and Monticello is on the back.
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Several years ago I shared Wild Florida Air Boat Tours & Animal Park. Today is a couple of beautiful sunset photos from there.
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My nephew, James, and his wife, Heather, spend a lot of time camping in the summer. One of their favorite locations for camping is on Lake Michigan in the Upper Peninsula close to Historic Fayette, Michigan. I thank James for his beautiful photographs of the lake and woods.
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“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’d like to start today’s post with photos from my nephew James’ wife, Heather, and her spring plant buys. If you’ve been around several years ago, you might remember Heather switched from a huge haul of annuals each spring to mostly perenials with some annual additions each spring. This has worked well with less work until this year. This circular bed has lost half of the perenials. The wooden flower pot always had annuals in it.
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Today I’m sharing a stunning mural which really caught my eye. You can find these gorgeous monarch butterflies flying around pink flowers on a wall that separates Allan Kruger Park from the Lake Mirror Tower Apartments in Downtown Lakeland, Florida.
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