water conservation

Great Florida Birding Trail attracts visitors
Great Florida Birding Trail attracts visitors

Great Florida Birding Trail attracts visitors

The photographer, wearing multiple cameras, walked towards me grinning. Cameras with long lenses worth more than the national debt of medium-sized third world countries hung from each shoulder. “Well how is it?” I asked, holding just one camera in one…

Downtown historic Melbourne has food and fun
Downtown historic Melbourne has food and fun

Downtown historic Melbourne has food and fun

It is not my fault. Someone has to bite the calories, taste the Grimaldi handmade chocolates then report to you. That would be me. I bravely walk into their store on Waverly Place in Melbourne. The vats for making chocolate…

Rain Barrels are a win-win for the Environment
Rain Barrels are a win-win for the Environment

Rain Barrels are a win-win for the Environment

As I sit here looking out the studio window, big, billowing white clouds are scudding out of the west, moving fast heading east to the Atlantic Ocean. Yesterday bands of rain came through town. Every 30 minutes or so another…

Walk Leaf-strewn Trails in a Florida Forest
Walk Leaf-strewn Trails in a Florida Forest

Walk Leaf-strewn Trails in a Florida Forest

My dogs like walking the Sand Hill Trail at Silver Springs State Park in Ocala. Often we’re the first ones walking the leaf-strewn path and that means our chances of seeing wildlife are pretty good. A fact of life –…