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, there created a personal "place of beauty, serenity, and peace." His singing tower, completed in 1928, rose to its famed height with 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 feel and appear to roll uphill.

 

 

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

 

 

Cassadaga, Fla

 

 

 Cassadaga Hotel 

 

 

 

 

 

My daughter's cards read from a spiritualist's Celtic deck. 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Cross Creek, Fla