More Monument Valley - for ShirleyMarie

Shirley Marie, this is especially for you...... i managed to find water in the desert. About as difficult as trying to buy a beer on Navajo tribal Lands. Whereabouts in Florida do you live? We often spend time in the Sunshine State, usually in springtime. Love your Oranges.

Never heard of water in the desert,maybe a small spring, a creek flow after a rain but a lake? Looks like a lake but maybe you are tricking me into thinking lake...love the picture...thanks, I live in Floral City...might be the smallest city in Florida now but it once was the biggest...yep, bigger then Miami or Ocala or Tampa...back when the rock Phosphate was mined here. I don't like oranges, you can have them all! 4 trees in the backyard too...I have not found any citrus I like...well, maybe a sweet tangerine once in awhile. Hugs, Shirley

Ok i have just found Floral City on the map, i must have passed it on my way north a time or two on I75, but have never been there. So you don't like oranges eh? You must have a sweet tooth then, maybe Key Lime pie takes your fancy, or Pecan Pie?
Here is a little photo quiz for you, where is this place in the first set, and who lived there in the second set (both places are not that far from you).
first set:


second set:

Gorgeous photos - some spots I'd love to visit!

xx

The church looks like the one called Wahoo Church, east of town on 48 and the sigh is at a pull off from the road near the church. I don't recognize any of the others as a place...a house just a bit west of our traffic light and from the late 1800's does look somewhat like that house...I can't remember the side builgings though..will have to go look again.
It is a typical southern barn, many like them around, just not in that good a shape these days.
I don't know cars, new or old..not my thing to be interesting
Ahh..sweet potatoes, good anyway you fix them.
The last two remind me of the Rawling house...where the writer lived when she wrote the Yearling...been there twice and the first time enjoyed it a lot but the last time not so much as entrance to the house is not allowed any more..special hours, a fee to pay and must stay behind a guide.
I guess I am far off on these..but a fun try for me...Shirley

Shirley
The first two are from the fabulous little hamlet of Micanopy.
Florida's oldest settlement and a very pretty place. We have enjoyed nice ice cream from the little shop there.
http://welcometomicanopy.com/

You are spot on with the second set - yes, it is the house of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings who wrote "The Yearling" which was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck, which received multiple Oscar nominations. The recipe book is hers and the typewriter has a page from the book "The Yearling" around its platen.
http://www.marjoriekinnanrawlings.org/

Well done

What an interesting post, thanks Apache.

I do like Miconopy for a drive about and have photos of many of the older buildings. And, yes, ate at the old shop too...Walked up and down the street and enjoyed that, about 3 years ago when I could walk that far...couldn't today. And right around the corner is the state's Payne Prairie...a refuge for wildlife...a huge pasture there has Bison, Cracker Cattle, Cracker Horses...they are as direct as possible descendents from animals introduced by the Spanish settlers from way back when..also a winter home for many migrating birds..even the Whooping Cranes. The area has a nice building that houses a collection of artifacts found in the area from the times of Timucua Indians and prehistoric peoples before them. Miconopy was the head village of the Timucua Indians long before white people came. Now I want to revisit there! Not the Rawlings place as I don't like what they have done with it lately...set it up to boost tourism over leaving it as it was. Shirley