Floyd Street

Transition after moving to Floyd from Flamingo.

 

New abode on the left, hospital down at the end of the street. 

 

 

 

Now leasing an early Florida cracker-style cottage.

 

 

 

Shortly after our move-in, mid December 2024. A little chilly, no furniture, with a bent leaning holiday tree.

 

  

 Today's living room.

 

 

Miss Lolly

 

My office space out back. Group photo from my college years.

 

My first ever camera bought downtown, used, at Norton's Camera. Then, a Junior in High School (1967). Nikon's first production camera, the Nikon S (N1) rangefinder. Still have it, carried it through-out college.

 

 

 

My desk today out in the back house.

 

 

 

Pool house's outdoor, hand-made decorative shutters.

 

 

 

Outside my bedroom window, a common 'Snake' plant's florescence just prior to flowering. In Australia, it is considered a potential weed. In Brazil, it is referred to as "Saint George's Sword" (D. trifasciata). There, it is often planted to ward off evil spirits and used commonly as a protection against the "evil eye". 

 

 

 

Numerous Areca palms surround the property.

 

 

 

The one distinguished survivor from our home at Flamingo, my remote controlled, 12 meter (modeled) sloop. She floated happily throughout the interior during that great storm surge. She was the one that was truly fit to survive.

 

 

 

Now home on Floyd Street.

 

 

 

 

Old friend (motorcycle)

2002 Triumph Bonneville, my last motorbike. Rode her for 20 plus years, over 65,000 miles. Lost her with Hurricane Helene. 

2002 - 2024

 

 

 

Southern Georgia, back roads, heading for northern Alabama camping. 

 

Travelin' with a friend. Speeding. Pulled over near Plains, Georgia. 2010.

 

 

 

Worldwide member (BIR), Florida State Clan.

 

 

 

 North of Dade City, Fla. 

 

 

 

Riding out east. SR 72. DeSoto County, Fla.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two weeks on the road, cross-country, ridin' through northern Mexico. State of Chihuahua. 2003

 

 

 

Magazine article, "Motorcycle Diaries". On the road, Texas Hill Country, Blanco, Texas. 2004

 

 

 

"Motorcycle Diaries", searching for that famed "alien debris field". Roswell, New Mexico. 2004

 

 

 

Cold start. Heading out from a campout. Okeechobee, Fla. 2012

 

 

 

Last ride on the Bonneville, Myakka trails. Stopped, thought I saw a snake. Sarasota County, Fla. 2024

 

  

 

 

Old Friend (camera)

10 X 8 Gandolfi Field Camera, Cuban mahogany with leather bellows. Schneider 360mm Symmar-S lens. Majestic model 1200 aluminum tripod. Field camera custom ordered and hand-built by Fred Gandolfi after a shop visit and my return from England's Medway College of Design. 

Fred Gandolfi, second in from right. Borland Road, Peckham, London.

 

 

 

Covered a lot of ground together, thirty some years worth.

1976-1977  Black Studio Portraits (downtown studio, Sarasota, Fla.)

1977-2005  Florida Field Portraits (Southwest Florida)

1989-1990  Brazil Field Portraits (Rio de Janeiro - Pantanal)

1997  Garden Portraits (Individual sub-tropical plants outside the home) Siesta Key, Fla.

1998  Cuban Street Portraits (Havana) 

2007  "Mi Familia" (book project of family portraits) Siesta Key, Fla. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A long time comin’

Coming up on two years. (Bout’ a year and 9 months)

The after ....

 

 

and the after, after ... today, the property finally cleared.

 

 

 

 

 

Maine: Central Highlands

A low-key celebration of our country's 250th anniversary.

4th of July parade day, Sebec, Maine 

 

 

 

 

 

Village of Sebec (Wilson photo)

 

 

Cabin stay on Schoodic Lake.

 

'Wildlife Wilson'

 

 

 

Sandy & Santi (Wilson photo)

 

 

  

 

 

Florida: a back road

Lake Wales, Fla 

Bok 'Singing' Tower.  At 298 feet above sea level on Florida's highest central hill, Edward W. Bok, a Dutch-born immigrant, here envisioned his personal, "place of beauty, serenity, and peace." 

Bok’s singing tower, completed in 1928, rose to its famed height through a combination of imported 'carillon' bells and quarried pale pink, Georgia marble.  Edward W. Bok gifted his final fulfillment of landscaped gardens, this National Historic Landmark, to remain always, "A sanctuary to be used as a place of rest for the human spirit."

 

 

 

Spook Hill.  Florida's only 'gravity' or magnetic spot, where cars can feel or appear to roll uphill.

 

 

The ‘Thirsty Dragon’ Pub.  My oldest daughter's favorite pet. The two of us along for a week's ride.

 

 

Cassadaga, Fla

 

 

 Cassadaga Hotel 

 

 

 

 

 

My daughter's dealt cards after her reading from a local spiritualist's Celtic deck.  "Ace of Cups". 

 

 

Cassadaga's Camp founder (1894) & spiritualist, Geo. P. Colby's personal reading & early seance table. 

 

 

Seated out on the hotel's large open veranda, a late night of lightning and heavy rain.

 

 

 

Cross Creek, Fla 

Noted author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Yearling cabins at Cross Creek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taxidermied "yearling" mount under glass at the cabins neighboring restaurant.

 

 

Cross Creek

 

Our cabin. Our final night out on the road.