Paynes Prairie
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marinessSo I finally managed to get a look at the pictures I took during last week's mini expedition to Paynes Prairie. In the process I found this:
and this:
Neither of which are exactly Payne's Prairie. The first is, I think, from a December trip to Downtown Disney - that is, that's certainly the Lego store in Downtown Disney, but I'm not sure when I took the picture. The second was initially an attempt to take a photo of a very uncooperative bird. (You will note the lack of any birds, cooperative or not, in the photo.
Alas, when I finally reached my Paynes Prairie pictures, I found that most of them had not come out in the slightest. Ah well. Paynes Prairie is a low lying area of Florida that has occasionally turned into a lake; when not a lake (as now), it is, depending upon who you talk to, a complex ecosystem, ideal pastureland, a state park, or a place that my mother and I had been trying to reach for some time. Warning: you can't tell it's a prairie from any of my pictures:
If you look closely, you might see the snakes hidden in the grass.
We saw two white pelicans, neither one of which felt like cooperating for a picture. This was about the best I could do:
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One note: one reason it took me so long to put up these pictures is that although we had been told that Paynes Prairie was wheelchair accessible...this description turned out to be more than slightly misleading. The problem with this sort of thing is that it doesn't just impact the wheelchair user, but the people travelling with the wheelchair user, and it kinda puts a downer on even the loveliest of places.
Luckily, we were able to cheer up with excellent milkshakes, and my parents were able to go look at Heisman Trophies (I skipped that part).
and this:
Neither of which are exactly Payne's Prairie. The first is, I think, from a December trip to Downtown Disney - that is, that's certainly the Lego store in Downtown Disney, but I'm not sure when I took the picture. The second was initially an attempt to take a photo of a very uncooperative bird. (You will note the lack of any birds, cooperative or not, in the photo.
Alas, when I finally reached my Paynes Prairie pictures, I found that most of them had not come out in the slightest. Ah well. Paynes Prairie is a low lying area of Florida that has occasionally turned into a lake; when not a lake (as now), it is, depending upon who you talk to, a complex ecosystem, ideal pastureland, a state park, or a place that my mother and I had been trying to reach for some time. Warning: you can't tell it's a prairie from any of my pictures:
If you look closely, you might see the snakes hidden in the grass.
We saw two white pelicans, neither one of which felt like cooperating for a picture. This was about the best I could do:
*********
One note: one reason it took me so long to put up these pictures is that although we had been told that Paynes Prairie was wheelchair accessible...this description turned out to be more than slightly misleading. The problem with this sort of thing is that it doesn't just impact the wheelchair user, but the people travelling with the wheelchair user, and it kinda puts a downer on even the loveliest of places.
Luckily, we were able to cheer up with excellent milkshakes, and my parents were able to go look at Heisman Trophies (I skipped that part).
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Date: 2010-04-08 03:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-08 03:32 am (UTC)bedtime for both of us, I think.
feh, what a drag about the access theater.