Experience for yourself the vast recreation opportunities at Polk County Florida Parks & Trails
11/7/12
Preening Eagle At Simmers Young Park, Winter Haven
During a morning walk/jog with my beagle on November 5 @ Simmers Young Park, I observed an eagle way up on the lights. It stayed there there entire hour we were there. While watchful, it was also preening.
10/27/12
Sunset at Marshall Hampton Reserve, 10/26/12
This sunset, the fast-blowing clouds and gorgeous colors of the evening sky compelled me to stop and capture it in its delightful display of beauty.
9/12/12
A Glimpse of Autumn At Simmers-Young Park
Autumn 2012 officially begins September 22nd, yet already Polk County is reveling in its forthcoming-arrival! Enjoy the Autumn colors this week at Simmers-Young Park in Winter Haven!
"Change is a measure of time and, in the Autumn, time seems speeded up.
What was is not and never again will be; what is is change."
~Edwin Way Teale~
"Delicious Autumn! My very soul is wedded to it
and if I were a bird, I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive Autumns"
~George Eliot~
"A tangerine and russet cascade of kaleidoscopic leaves, creates a tapestry of Autumn magic
upon the emerald carpet of fading summer"
~Judith A. Lindberg~
"Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower"
~Albert Camus~
"For man, Autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad"
~Edwin Way Teale~
"The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn"
~John Muir~
"Every leaf speaks bliss to me"
~ Emily Bronte ~
"Swinging on delicate hinges, the Autumn leaf almost off the stem"
~Jack Kerouac~
"Autumn is the hardest season.
The leaves are falling and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground"
~Andrea Gibson~
"The stripped and shapely Maple grieves,
The ghosts of her departed leaves.
The ground is hard, as hard as stone.
The year is old, the birds are flown"
~John Updike~
"Wisdom begins in wonder"
~Socrates~
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