Another American Adventure: Photos while stuck at the draw bridge again

Monday, January 31, 2011

Photos while stuck at the draw bridge again

Lots of boats going out. Boats have priority over cars ...

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BarbaraJanuary 31, 2011 at 10:21 PM
Where in Florida is this?
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beth cioffolettiFebruary 2, 2011 at 1:54 PM
Hi Barbara - it's on the northernmost bridge that crosses from the mainland (West Palm Beach) to the island of Palm Beach. The water there is known as either Lake Worth, or the Intracoastal Waterway.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.