Back stairs - Spanish Springs

Cattle feed stall - Circle Square Ranch

Main Street at night - Lake Sumter Landing

Photo by Lois Anne.

Catching a few rays

Waiting for the party to begin

Monkey business - Miami Zoo

Entrance to The Veranda - Lake Sumter Landing

New life in a pine forest

Starbucks - Lake Sumter Landing

Weeki Wachee - Mermaids

...and yes, we will be visiting Weeki Wachee in the future...

Market Square - Lake Sumter Landing

Weeki Wachee Springs - Florida kitsch

Weeki Wachee Springs State Park is a Florida "institution," it's biggest attraction being "live" mermaids. It may be a little old, and a little tacky and run-down, but people from all over the world still come to visit and to watch mermaids swim around in a tank of water.

We visited a couple of weeks ago, but the park closed just as we got there (3 pm)...so we weren't able to get inside to get a closer look.

For more information on this park which survives as part of Florida's past (before Disney), click here.

Lined up for the evening's festivities - Lake Sumter Landing

Park and fish or swim or eat or just laze in the sun

Photo by Lois Anne.

Looking for a whistle, I found a thistle