The Greatest Show (In Town)

 A small sampling under their new Big Top

 

 

Ringmaster, Joseph Bauer, Jr  (15th generation, Swiss family circus)

 

 

 

 

The 'Wheel of Destiny', Marcos & Noe from Spain

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bello Sisters (Loren, Celine & Joline), Italian / German acrobatic trio

 

 

 

 

 

Myakka headwaters

Again, out volunteering with the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, planting once more, native 'pop ash' along the banks of the upper Myakka River. 

Myakka's headwaters in eastern Manatee County.

 

 

Standing in open prairie, the Foundation's volunteer coordinator & 'land steward', Esmeralda Figueras (L) discusses with a volunteer the day's placement of pop ash saplings.

 

Volunteers planting the saplings along the river's bank.

a volunteer's field packpack

 

 

A little further downriver, with inter-mingling mature pop ash lining the opposite shore, a likely swimming hole waiting for some late afternoon kids.

hot on the trail

around 75 degrees ..... warm for early February.