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." His 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's final fulfillment, "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.

 

 

 

colonoscopy

Sarasota Memorial Hospital.

Waiting in the endoscopy lounge, waiting to be drug back. Everyone's head appeared to be down, but I was excited. Couldn't wait.