Found this fellow wandering the parking lot at the Caribe Royale hotel in south Orange County in the busy tourist are. A security guard tells me that there’s a couple families of wild turkeys that live in the woods in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Sperry Fountain in Lake Eola Park in Orlando. Just beyond that you can see the iconic Lake Eola Fountain.
Stopped at Swampy’s friend, travel writer, Eva Knapp’s home in Ridge Manor and found some rain around the wilds near her home.
Did a book signing at Parker Books in Sarasota today. Parker’s Dan Christian set up a blank sheet of paper to draw on last year when there. This year got a chance to add more to the drawing. More to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the second floor overlooking the restaurant in the Terrace Hotel in Lakeland. Built in 1924, it is one if the oldest hotels in the state still in operation and still looking much as it did in the 1920s. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. will be signing Swampy books at A. Parker Books on Main St. in Sarasota on Saturday from 12 noon until 3pm-ish. Come on by and say “Hello!” Click here for more about A. Parker Books.
Here’s Swampy at one of the earliest Dairy Queens still standing. This one is just south of State Road 46 and east of US 17 in Sanford.
Here’s Swampy with a huge wall size photographic display of Orlando in the private Citrus Club in Orlando. Swampy was there for the monthly Orlando Remembered meeting. Orlando Remembered puts up fantastic displays of Orlando’s history and is part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Swampy with Bill Stanton, Executive Director of the Jackson County Development Council, with just a small part of his incredible Florida book collection. Bill set up a tremendous meeting with local leaders to discuss how Swampy can help promote[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy at the famous The Fish House in historic Downtown Pensacola. Since opening in 1996 The Fish House. and the companion Atlas Oyster Bar, has been one of the most popular restaurants in western Florida. They’re best known dish is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Swampy with Festival attendee, David, and his balloon parrot created by a wandering costumed pirate.
The Chappell family of Fort Walton Beach with their Billy Bowlegs Bowlegs books they just purchased, all signed and scribbled in, at the annual Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival.