Monday, April 12, 2010

Everywhere else (well almost) they have landscapes - here in Florida you get cloudscapes, on account of the land is as flat as a pancake. The ideas are not unconnected, I think there is a real grandeur to the Florida skies that comes from  the fact that the land is so flat; there is just a lot of sky to be grand about.



There is a lovely place called the Bok Tower Gardens, somewhere south west of Orlando. It's a throw back to the early 1900's when New York tycoons woke up to the fact that Florida is a darned sight more comfortable in the winter than their native city, and now easy to get to because of the railways. So a slew (slough?) of large mansions were built all around Florida, the Bok Tower Gardens being built around one of them. That particular spot was apparently chosen because, at the time, it was though to be the highest spot in peninsular Florida; the height being an awesome 320 feet. Where I come from, there are rocks bigger than that (if you follow the link, the grey thing in the middle is Dombashawa, one large hunk of granite and it's about 400 feet high) .

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