Zuber arranges some posies with Alva’s help. Get out and visit your local florist to brighten someone’s day! #FloridaDesignDay
Archive for February, 2015
Trilby, Alva and Zuber traipse across the strawberries! The Florida Strawberry Festival started yesterday. Now is your chance to head over to Plant City and have some strawberry fun! #NationalStrawberryDay #StrawberryDay
Trilby tries to explain how books mysteriously disappeared from Swampy’s library yesterday. During his story a potato plant turns into a dragon and a snack-munching baby alligator becomes a fearless defender of bookshelves. #TellAFairyTaleDay
While at the Pine Castle Pioneer Days this past weekend, the Jacksonville fire of 1901 crept up for one reason or other. Here’s a victim of the fire: the Windsor Hotel, as it was in 1885. The lodging house was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a stern talking to from Swampy, Trilby is not touching Swampy’s books even as a potato vine creeps in and checks out a few volumes from the Swampy collection. Coming tomorrow: Storytelling. #InvasiveSpeciesWeek
This ad of B.F. Goodrich was in the February 24th, 1955 issue of the Ocala Star-Banner.
Trilby is looking for a Batman comic book in Swampy’s library while munching crackers & Little Debbie chocolate Swiss Cake Rolls. Trilby’s troublesome interaction with Swampy’s collection of books has Swampy more than a bit upset. Coming tomorrow: Invasive action.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alva pitches an Alessi Bakery banana bread to Trilby, who is dropping crumbs on Swampy’s books. Legendary Alessi Bakery in Tampa are famous for many of their creations. Banana bread is certainly a fan favorite. #BananaBreadDay
Swampy loves to think and learn Florida history. His library proves that. #WorldThinkingDay #ThinkingDay
Trilby finds he must go undercover to evade Haywood’s hunger during Bird Feeding Month. Sharing cherry pie is not an option considered by Trilby. A nearly hidden secret in Eau Galle is Joan’s Perfect Pies. I’ve had a number of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Bok Tower and a Bus! 1942.
An oddity of a postcard of Bok Gardens in Lake Wales. Anyone who knows Bok Tower knows there is no road in front of the pond by the tower. To properly place a bus in front of the tower it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby celebrates with his typical gator-stack of pancakes, topped with a healthy, heaping pile of grits and topped with sausage links. He’s on a mild diet. So, no whipped cream and chocolate chips this time. A favorite hot breakfast stop[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…