"Four Corners"

Last evening someone requested this blog address and suggested that they might peruse its postings all the way back to the beginning of my protracted sabbatical experience last July. I recommend this as a certain cure for insomnia. As leg #2 draws to a close I must begin to prepare for e-entry. Reflecting today upon these two summers it occurred to me that I have visited the four contiguous corners of our country...from Moosehead Lake in Maine to Fuller Seminary in Pasadena last year...from Seattle and the Cascades of Washington State to the swamps of Melbourne, Florida this year. Criss-crossing the United States was not an intentional part of the itinerary, but surely a blessing.

I have had a delightful time in Florida. We cruised some local wetlands this morning in Don and Karen's matching Chrysler convertibles and then lunched at "The Lone Cabbage," a local, rustic, authentic fish camp, before climbing aboard an air boat to skim the marshs and weeds in search of gators. I recalled last summer's exhaustive (though eventually successful) search for moose in the Maine woods. These reptiles proved to be much more tourist-friendly and available than Bullwinkle. The pic's below offer a glimpse of some of the wildlife here.