TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....

A friend and I went to the Museum of South Florida, a picturesque Spanish-style bulding up in Bradenton  to see a photographic exhi...

The elegant white house in the post below used to be owned by one Christy Payne. It had been his retirement home. Can't be bad. It was ...

On Golden Beach.   You can hear the surf at night, the mornings are chilly again and someone's getting a roller-coaster r...

We'd gone past the entrance many times and never actually visited. It's not cheap to get in and you need enough time. But the Marie...

Dateline: Venice, Florida   It just shows how all things are relative.  We are cold here. We are shivering. The heating's come on b...

 Well guess what - this was Golden Beach on Christmas Day!  Complete with a sand-and-shell Christmas tree. (Not one I made earlier...

Dateline: Venice, Florida And we're all gearing up... Gift wrapped doggie bones at the Farmers' market... Rudolph on y...