Go Ahead. Make my Day
National Geographic, photo by Robert Clark,June 2008 feature story about “Angkor Wat.”
Strangler fig trees and creeping lichens devour ruins at Ta Prohm, once home to hundreds of monks. To build their magnificent complexes, Angkor’s feudal rulers relied on revenue generated by rice growing.
again…
The parade started at 11:30 a.m. and people were sitting on the sidewalk at 10. Although not overly crowded, everyone was having fun, from young to old and in-between.
It’s 6:45 now, and people are still celebrating. I can hear them from home. For last year’s parade, go to florida here and here
I was driving back from Vero, and knew I couldn’t catch up to my friends who went to watch the moon rise over the ocean. Had to be satisfied with what I saw off of I95.
So, here she is. My rendition. And it doesn’t do her justice. A succulent orange, she appeared good enough to eat… and a nice big portion, too.
I remember being called a Florida Cracker because I was born in Miami. Didn’t think much more of the term until I wrote horse stories for The Palm Beach Post and learned about the ranches in the middle of the state that raised cattle, and actually went to a round up at Miss Ida’s in Indiantown.
A Florida Cracker was a cowman who cracked a long whip to herd up the cattle.
There are Cracker horses and cattle, animals that acclimated to wet soggy swampland — that kind of environment isn’t good for animals with hooves, but these horses and cows did just fine here.
I also found out that we have Cracker roses (Florida is not known for that flower) — a little straggelly, but a rose is a rose is a rose.
For more photos, go to my christine davis site and my vacation site.
I love this fair. And, since I live less than a block away, I can walk down and follow its progression. Wish Lake Worth did more of this kind of thing. The only festival I have loved better was the Luggage fair in San Francisco, an unbelievable conglomeration of street performers and acrobats who were walking up and down the sides of buildings…
Anyway, I digress. Here are photos from this year’s Lake Worth festival. (and for more, go to my christine davis site.
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