Guy at THIS LINK has started a new meme called EveryDay Life. He asks this week for a picture of a typical house in our area. This is what our small neighborhood looks like right now. James at Newton Daily Photo hosts WEEKEND REFLECTIONS. Click on the links listed there to see reflective posts from everywhere.
Most of the snowbirds have left Upriver (and the other sunny places where this not-so-rare breed hangs out) by now. But because of our delayed start getting here this winter, we are staying on a while. We have some work to do on the house and places to see here in Florida.
Our cross-canal neighbor, Gary, took this picture of our little cottage and boat early in the morning just a few days before he and Sylvia left to go back to Alaska where they live during the summer. The canal was as smooth as glass. (We do get some tide action and the breezes blow the water around a lot.) You can see that both of our next-door neighbors have shuttered their winter homes against possible hurricanes while they are up North.
About 15 homes in the park are occupied year-round and a few more people will stay through June, so we are not all alone in the resort. One year, when we were traveling with our fifth-wheel RV just after the season ended, we stayed, for about two months, at a huge park in the Mission Valley of Texas where we were the only people. Now that was kind of eerie!
Below is how the Canal looked during the Winter Season. It IS a lot easier to dock now! But not as companionable.
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