Oh, I’ve seen the seamy side of life, my little one. It hasn’t all been beer and roses by a long shot. Lola Fandango

 

 

 

An annular – or ring of fire – eclipse this weekend

 

 

 

More of Centre Street in historical Ferandina on Amelia island

 

 

Amelia Island a Locale for Books and Movies

 

 

 

 

Back to our journey down the spine of Florida

 

We’re still in Lake Wales

 

Other place you might be interest in seeing in and near the town while you’re there

 

 

Horse Property in Lake Wales, FL
Beautiful, 10,000 sq. ft. castle contains 25 rooms, including 10 bedrooms, five full bathrooms and 3.5 half bathrooms. This “E-shaped” Spanish/Mediterranean style castle sits on a hill overlooking Lake Amoret. 82 acres Rockridge Rd, Lakeland, FL - Listing

 

La Casa de Josephina

                                                         1119 N. Highland Park Drive , 
                                                                          Lake Wales ,  FL  
                                                                           Private Residence
Eclectic with Italian, Spanish, Gothic and other elements.  Edward B. Stratton was the architect.  One and two story, flat roof with crenelated parpaets.  2 story central pavillion with arcaded wings, decorative balconies with wrought-iron detail.  Built as a residence for Polk banker and realtor Irwin Arthur Parnell.
 
 
 
275 E Stuart Ave #6, LAKE WALES, FL 33853
                                                                             Park and Stuart Ave
                                   :Largely the product of the Great FLorida Land Boom (1918-                                    1926), the historic, commerical buildings along these streets 
                                 reflect architectural designs commonly employed throughout                                                    the United States in the early 20th century     
 
 
                                                                                
                                                                                The G.V. Tillman House B&B
                                                                                 301 East Sessoms Ave.
Lake Wales, Florida 33853941-676-5499
6 fire places, fine accommodations, featuring delightful                                                   feather beds. a wraparound porch overlooking                Crystal  Lake,  and graceful ground.  The house was one of the first                                             built in Lake Wales and was placed on the National Register of   Historic Places in 1990.
 
 
Lake Wales is a pretty little town that lassoes a lake.   For a scenic                                                                                  view of the water and the lakeside                                                                                           mansions and park follow Lakeshore Blvd   
 
 
                                                                         continue south on A27
                              We’ll continue on in rural Florida and visit Camp Mack next time.
                                         

Riverfront at Camp Mack 2016

Camp Mack has been a ‘fish camp’ for well over 100 years [2] and on a geological map from 1836, this area was described as Tyson’s Camp.

                                                                                                                             
 
                                                                         

Rebels With a Cause: What History’s Forgotten Black Women Teach Us About Ourselves

 

 

 

 

“What is blooming around you?  Gather a bundle of herbs, flowes, and leaves and tie them with several ribbons in various colors–be sure to include red and white.  Put the bouquet in a vase of water.  This is a fertile sesson—celebrate by decorating your….special place with a bundle and candles to represent the fire of passion.  Focus on stirring or rekindling a relationship, if you wish.
To do this, add a symbol of the relationship to your altar and surround it with the bouquet and candles.  VIsualize the fire and flowers infusing your relationship with a spark.”
Llewellyn’s
Witches Datebook 2013

Henry VIII and the Men who Made Him: Live online

25th June 2020 | 7:00pm – 8:00pm

 

 

 

 

 

The 39 Best Documentaries on Netflix Now

 

 

 

Saint Margaret's Church

 

St. Margaret’s Westminster

This church sets in the shadow of Westminster totally eclipedby the huge and terriably historic Abbey—while the lines to Westminister are long and exhausting to negotiate — the visitors here are few and far between.  But it is a church with much history—-it is only within the last 10 years or so that the historians learned that the stain glass window here at the front of the church was in honor  of Catherine of Argon-–but not as Henry VIII’s wife—this was done to commerate her betrothal and/or wedding his brother Arthur

her first husband.

 

 

Elizebeth I established this as a collegete church in 1560.

 

In 1840 St. Margrets was placed under the diocese of London but by the 1970’s there were only a few hundred people in this parrish so eventually the parrish designation was relocated and the church had active parrishes again.

This modest church is like Abbeyy subject to the authority of the Sovereign.

 

It is the Parish Church of the House of Commons as well—this chruch was pickec by the the Puritans who did not like the ornate Abbey.  It has remained Parliaments church to this day.

 

William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and as a printer was the first English retailer of printed books.    He is buried here at the church and has a window dedicated to him.

In November 1954, a memorial to Caxton was unveiled in Westminster Abbey by J. J. Astor, chairman of the Press Council. The white stone plaque is on the wall next to the door to Poets’ Corner. The inscription reads:

Near this place William Caxton set up the first printing press in England

 

 

A person that you Yanks might know that’s buried here is

Sir Walter Raleigh who as executed in in 1618 for treason–what some has noted was a trumped up charge that the

King (James I) 

allowed to be ignored for 15 years after the verdict, but then in an effort to get on the good side of the Spanish monarch he reinstated the charges and had Raliegh executed at White Chapel—he is buried here, though his head was more likely impaled on London Bridge or some such place about London.

 

St Margaret's church interior

 

 

 

4 exercise trends to try

 

 

 

 

Brontë, Charlotte

 

My dreams, the Gods of my religion, linger

In foreign lands each sundered from his own,

And there has passed a cold destroying finger

And there has passed, and each sacred tone

Sounds low and at a distance, sometimes dying

Like an uncertain sob, or smothered sighing.

From My Dreams

Charlotte Bronte

Her Journal

 

 

 

Salacious Letter Detailing Van Gogh And Paul Gauguin’s Raucous Brothel Visits Up For Auction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Covent Garden: A History of Sex & Gin – Look Up London Virtual Walking Tour

 

 

 

 

Wanta watch some amazing women—-

PBS’ Masters Celebrates

Trail Blazing Women

 

June 23:  Toni Morrison:  The Piece I Am

 

July 10:  Unlady Like 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Comfortable

“A comfortable mattress, pillow and blanket can make a big diference in your ability to sleep.  If you frequently have trouble sleeping consider ;purchasing some new beddin, if you can test them out before buying.”

 

The Sleeper

Mark Johnson

 

 

 

TRAPPED: THE ART & SCIENCE OF CARNIVOROUS PLANTS

 

Stuck at Home? Horror Streaming Service Shudder Is Now Offering a Free Month-Long Trial

 

 

 

 

 

Cuba's Car Culture: Celebrating the Island's Automotive Love Affair - Cotter, Tom, and Warner, Bill (Photographer), and Moss, Stirling, Sir (Foreword by)

 

Cuba’s Car Culture: Celebrating the Island’s Automotive Love Affair

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Cuba’s Car Culture drives through Cuba’s love of American cars of the ’40s and ’50s, and the ingenuity that keeps them running despite the U.S. embargo. 2017 Silver Medal Winner of the International Automotive Media Competition! The story of how Cuba came to be trapped in automotive time is a fascinating one. For decades, the island country had enjoyed healthy tourism trade and American outpost status, and by the 1950s it had the highest per capita automotive purchasing of any Latin American country . But when Cuba fell to communist rebels in 1959, so ended the inflow of new cars. Since then, trade embargo forced Cuba’s car enthusiasts to develop a unique and insular culture, one marked by great creativity, such a s: -Keeping a car alive with no opportunity to acquire replacement parts -Customizing a car with no access to aftermarket parts -Drag racing with no drag strip In many ways, Cuba is an automotive time warp , where the newest car is a 1959 Chevy or perhaps one of the Soviet Ladas. Cuba’s Car Culture offers an inside look at a unique car culture, populated with cars that have been cut off from the world so long that they’ve morphed into something else in the spirit of automotive survival. Authors Tom Cotter and Bill Warner (founder of the Amelia Island Concours) take readers on a whirlwind tour of all things automotive , beginning with Cuba’s pre-Castro car and racing history, up to today’s lost collector cars, street racing, and the challenges of keeping decades-old cars on the road. Cuba’s Car Culture is illustrated throughout with rare historical photos as well as contemporary photos of Cuba’s current car scene. For anyone who enjoys classic cars , whether they’re old Chevy Bel-Airs , Studebakers , or Ford Fairlanes , a cruise around Cuba will make you feel like a kid in a candy storeby Tom CotterBill Warner (Photographer)Sir Stirling Moss (Foreword by)

 

 

 

“Jaws” released in theaters 6/20/20

 

 

Florida Entertainment Trivia

1,  What 1960 motion picture is given credit for depicting

Fort Lauderdale as the place for college students to be on spring break?

 

 

ANSWER:  to that question

It’s also the movie that My title  quote is from

 

this movie was also the film debut of Paula Prentiss and Connie Francis.

 

Where the Boys Are
Wheretheboysare.jpg

DVD cover by Reynold Brown
Directed by Henry Levin
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Screenplay by George Wells
Story by George Wells
Glendon Swarthout
Based on Where the Boys Are (1960 novel)
by Glendon Swarthout
Starring Connie Francis
Dolores Hart
Paula Prentiss
George Hamilton
Yvette Mimieux
Jim Hutton
Frank Gorshin
Music by Score:
George E. Stoll
Jazz:
Pete Rugolo
Songs:
Neil Sedaka (music)
Howard Greenfield (lyrics)
Cinematography Robert J. Bronner
Edited by Fredric Steinkamp
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • December 28, 1960
Running time
99 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2 million[1] (equivalent to $13 million in 2018)
Box office $3.5 million (US rentals)[1] (equivalent to $23.2 million in 2018)

Where the Boys Are is a 1960 Metrocolor and CinemaScope American comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Connie Frances

Wikipedia

 

In public toilets, flushing isn’t the only COVID-19 risk

 

 

 

 

 

Tomoka State Park

2099 N Beach St

Ormond Beach, Fl 32174
Volusia County

Floirda

 

 

 

 

8 Natural Ways to Get a Better Night’s Sleep

 

But what you might no know is that Mr. Badger is based on a real person:
William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Portland that Graham based his character on.
Seems that the Duke had underground tunnels built under his estate of Wellbeck   and that reportedlywasn’t all he did–for there were reportedly a whole lay out beneath the building, including library, billard room and even a garden with a glass top—a total of more tha a mile of tunnel.  There was even a ballrom—or maybe a roller rink?
A privacy freak it is said there were even barracdes or rather doors built about the bed to hide his where abouts—I guess from the servants.
and his daughter had issues too, claiming after his death  that her father had lived a double life as a furniture salesperon Thomas Charles Druce and all this eventually led to an asylum—seems like it ran in the family.   Her son took up the argument going so far as to claim that his grandfather had not died but lived on as his alter ego Druce….and he made enough of a rant to shake the powers that be with it all ending in a exhumation of the Duke’s casket—which he resided in for all to see (no doors or barriers here) which must have led many to think the son might well be better suited in the same institiution as his mother.
The estate today  is open for state room tour and and the 5th Duke’s Welbeck Village and on to Welbeck Abbey–it has been the home to the Dukes of Portland since 1607 when the first Duke was given the title –He was a son of Elizabeth 1‘s friend Bess Harwick. 
Unfortunately the under ground palace isn’t open to the public.

 

Fragrant and Fabulous: The Hometalker’s Guide on How to Grow Roses

 

 

 

 

 

 

This picture and the main at the beginning are from my  England adventures—probably London but……the first one in the text is anyone’s guess but I think it’s from near Astor (Florida) at a open air market that use to sell all manner of things like what you see in the picture.

 

 

 

rare wildcats have been caught on film causing mayhem 

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