Category: Outdoor

Spring has Sprung!

Spring is here. As we all know this means the days are longer, the sun is warmer and the plants are finally peaking out from hibernating all winter. It is a beautiful time to rejuvenate and refresh while …

What Image = “Tropics” to You?

USA’s National Park Service website: “America’s Everglades – The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States”. We live right here, surrounded…can’t go any further west without getting wet, definitely can’t go east, barely south or north without going through, around or bordering …

Le Jardin

Photo by Bill Earls A beautifully designed outside space is just as important and sometimes even more spiritual and thought evoking than any four walled room. When I started my artistic journey in design school in Toronto I …

Earth Day Anthem

Earth Day Anthem  song along to Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy“   Joyful joyful we adore our Earth in all its wonderment Simple gifts of nature that all join into a paradise Now we must resolve to protect …

The Paradise Coast

I looked back and found that I had written about our Paradise Coast before, but thought it was important, as the seasonal traffic arrives, to think about the real draw to Naples, from our pristine beaches to our manicured roads, parks and upscale plazas, …

Florida Style

What a beautiful name for our unspoiled beaches, white sand and bountiful seashells that line the coast.  Every now and then a stop on the beach reminds me of where we live, the attraction for visitors and the …