Another American Adventure: Florida sites

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Florida sites

Took my camera out with me today. There was this Banyan tree ...

... which became more fascinating the closer I got ...

Met Jane at the Our Lady of Florida Monastery where we joined their little Wednesday afternoon Contemplative Prayer group.

Visited Roberta in her office. I've already forgotten the translation of this Arabic sign over her desk ...

... but it was something like "may the fortune of God be with you." What I do remember was that the center word is Allah.

Went to Siam Square ...

... and saw all these birds on the lines on the way home.

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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.