APPLETON ART MUSEUM and SILVER SPRINGS in FLORIDA

MARCH 9 th , Sunday after church we went to Appleton Museum of Art to watch a movie about Silver Springs then and now, done by Mark Emery!!  It is a documentary and if you ever get to see it on PBS we strongly recommend it.  He has done many wildlife documentaries around the world for National Geographic.
We were so in awe of the production!! Enough that the following week we took the 30 minute tour on a glass bottom boat on the river from Silver Springs Park.  We decided to take the thirty minute tour to save money, with the idea that if we wanted more we would take the 90 minute tour another year when down through here.  You can bet that we will do the 90 minute tour which will go two miles on down river.
At the Museum we checked out some of the art of Clyde Butcher (likened to Ansel Adams),

but our main focus was the movie done by Mark Emery.  Mark even did a time of answering questions from the audience.  He did an awesome job of taking photos under water in the river and narrating with other boat captains for the movie!!
We are poor photographers, but this is our pictures in the Park and from the glass bottom boat - - -

Audrey with Gail and Ralph,
our park's activities directors.
We first met them in Jefferson, OH last spring.

Another plant that I will consider for our lot
in Zolfo Springs.

Or maybe this one!!

Gary, Gail and Ralph

Another Captain of the Tour Boats
over the years, Captain Oscar.
He was another narrator in the film.

Osceola

Not sure what this tree is.
I'm sure that I will find out sooner or later. 

This palm grows out over the river and
comes back over land

We are standing in the loop between the river portion of
the trunk, and the root and top portion of the tree!

Gail and Ralph 

Back at the park I got some pictures from the car window of a site which has a porch and steps going off the porch both left and right.  We loved the idea and the fact that they painted it to match their fifth wheel. We keep accumulating pictures of ideas!!

This view from the opposite end where the steps are
behind the shade awning, thus it appears
to a different color  Not!

Yesterday we drove south to The Villages to meet friends, Evelyn and Glen from Bushnell, to have dinner at Golden Corral. (archive picture)

I never even got to the dinner portion as I was quickly stuffed!!  We sure are cutting back from now until the weekend!!
They have a neighbor across the street from their unit at Bushnell who recently bought the park model and carport there, only to find that it is loaded with termites.  In addition to treating to get rid of the termites, they are having a lot of re-construction to do.
It sure is a warning to us about buying any used unit in the future!!

This has been a full week for us, so check back in with us next week.