October 01, 2016

It's October already!! 
Where did September go?? We've been here for a week, I think our time will go by very fast. 

Entrance Pond McKee Botanical Garden

We spent the morning moving....from one site to another in the same park. BUT ... It seems that Comcast cuts the cable line on unused sites/houses and the earliest we could get a tech to come out was mid October - that will not do!! So we moved back to our previous site. We'll sort it all out on Monday when the office re-opens for the week.  But at least we have internet and cable.

"Stickwork"
(sculpted by the same artist we saw earlier in 
Salem, Mass.- Patrick Dougherty)

We visited McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach this afternoon.

A lovely way to spend a hot humid day, in a jungle garden! We strolled along the meandering paths amid the greenery, the artworks, ponds and bridges.

Giant Amazon Waterlily - they look like trays floating on the water. 

Wooden bridges over the ponds 

And this beautiful rock bridge!

The Sleeping Tree - blown over in 1979 by Hurricane David, it landed in its 'sleeping' position. Roots were still intact and in the ground, so it continued to grow in that position.

The Hall of Giants, built in 1941 to house the world's largest one-piece mahogany table.

The mahogany table - one 38 foot solid piece of mahogany!