The garage showed a gleaming mint condition 1928 Ford Model A. It was probably not as beautiful when it left the factory floor. Nor as expensive.
A snowbird shows photos from southwest Florida (Naples) and southwest Connecticut (Ridgefield) and New England and other places he goes.
The garage showed a gleaming mint condition 1928 Ford Model A. It was probably not as beautiful when it left the factory floor. Nor as expensive.
I had an itty bitty car repair that had to be done. (A brake light.)
While I was there, I got to admire a pretty cool Cobra kit car sitting on the dealer's floor.
Celebration Park is a popular food truck venue southeast of downtown Naples.
Our Everglades (airboat) and Big Cypress (swamp buggy) tours were operated by Wooten's, Wooten's is the successor to tours run by Seminoles in the Everglades. The Wooten family took them over in 1953.
Wooten's offers guests an opportunity to hold either a two pound or a fifteen pound alligator. Bands keep the gators' mouths closed. I would have loved to hold a gator, but my hands were full.
While Susie and her family were here, we went for tours of Everglades National Park and the adjoining Big Cypress National Preserve.
Mangroves are usually found near the coast, but they have been driven further inland by hurricanes.
Historically, the Everglades are fields of grass.
A red-shouldered hawk kept an eye on the tourists.
No visit to Naples for Susie and her family would be complete without ice cream at Royal Scoop.
Ever since the current first grader was two, Susie has taken the same posed photo, with the little one getting a taste of the older one's ice cream cone. While Susie posed them, I sneaked my own photo.
And, of course, I also photographed Susie and the girls as Susie took her favorite Royal Scoop photo.