Ft. Myers, FL–While visiting the Edison & Ford Winter Estates recently, I checked out the biggest darn bougainvillea ever. Edison gravitated to the property because of the bamboo trees, a cheap source of filaments for his lightbulbs. But he was experimenting with plants and growing all kinds of wonderful things, including bougainvillea. And now that [...]
|
||||||
|
Sanibel Island, Fl–It’s hard to feel sorry for rascally raccoons when they dig into your trash bins at home and fling garbage all over the street. But any injured animal –even raccoons–brought to Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) gets equal, caring treatment. Your sympathy swells when you view the destruction we humans have wrought upon animal habitats at CROW’s [...] Fort Myers, FL–Edison was a genius, no doubt about it. But he was more than that–he was a practical genius, and that makes for great business sense. At the Edison-Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, FL you can see that practical genius at work in a multitude of ways. The estates just completed a multi-million dollar [...] Sanibel Island, FL–The shy Great Blue Herons and skittish Cormorants of the Skokie Lagoons rest comfortably in their winter home on Sanibel Island. The Cormorant, in fact, is quite the opportunist here, using the shadows of my kayak to sneak up on fish as he dives under and around the boat, following me and fellow paddlers. In this great gathering place for birds [...] |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2012 TheRoadScholar - All Rights Reserved |
||||||