This postcard wasn’t mailed but has a 1904 copyright. Would guess this is a reprint from the 1940s or 50s. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida colelction. . . . . > #Alligators #Florida #Postcards #Collectibles #Transportation #FloridaLife[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby, Zuber and Alva pick a few peaches for lots of eating later. You can learn more about Eat a Peach Day by clicking here: https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2376 . . . #EataPeachDay #NationalEatAPeachDay #Peach #Peaches #Happy #Celebrate #CElebration #DAilyCartoon #Cartoon #Florida Save[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby becomes well aware of sharks. You can learn more about Shark Awareness Day by clicking here: http://www.oceanfutures.org/news/blog/national-shark-awareness-day . . . . . . . . . #SharkAwarenessDay #NationalSharkAwarenessDay #Sharks #Florida #Celebrate #Happy #DailyCartoon #Celebration #daily #cartoon #Fish #Aquatics #Ocean[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby finds a picnic he can join! Bunny gathers a few of her teddy bears for a picnic with imaginary food and tea. . . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Teddy #Bear #Celebration #Daily #cartoon #Happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sierra Club began today in 1892 by one of Florida’s great chroniclers, John Muir. Today folks celebrate this organization that looks after natural areas. One of the Sierra Club Florida leaders was a great friend of Swampy, Whitey Markle.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby wanted to celebrate Grilled Cheese Sandwich and Licorice Day, so Zuber obliged by cooking a unique sandwich only a baby alligator would try. Where’s your favorite Florida restaurant to get a grilled cheese sandwich? Tomorrow: Florida and our second[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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. Tomorrow: Celebrate a berry! . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Walter Powell, daughter and friend at Smith’s Stemper Store in Land O’Lakes in the 1920s. This photo is from Elizabeth & Susan MacManus’ ‘Going, Going…Almost Gone’, 2012. Author MacManus points out that folks then, as now, would get baby critters[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy says Happy Pizza Month! October celebrates the rounded meal and Zuber is indulging in quite a bit of the doughy, cheesy, tomato pasted discs. One of Swampy’s recommendations for pizza in Florida is up in Jacksonville. Al’s pizza has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby had planned to have a morning snack of his typical gator-stack of pancakes, topped with a healthy, heaping pile of grits and topped with sausage links….until he found that Haywood, the hawk, decided he would have first dips, it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard of the old Caspar’s Gator Jungle. I wish this postcard had two things: 1) a postmark 2) an address. I’ve seen much about Caspar’s over the years. I know I’ve read about it, but the memory is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The photograph was taken by Gleason Waite Romer who took photos from 1925 until the early 1950’s all over Dade County. No idea where this was taken or who created the sculpture. Though, this does appear to be taxidermy involving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…