Spanish Point, Set Two

A second set of photos taken in March at
Historic Spanish Point in Osprey

First set of posts here.



The Guptill House, a Florida pioneer-era home built in 1901. The house is built on a prehistoric archaic midden, the oldest one at Spanish Point. The midden, which is composed of shellfish, shell tools, pottery, and early artifacts, dates back to 3000 BC.



The boat yard.



Interior boat yard.



An replica of the sharpie sailboat, a flat-bottomed boat, built to navigate shallow bays. The boats were used during Florida's pioneer era to transport people and goods along the coast. It's worth pointing out from the Spanish Point brochure that the sharpie replica (foreground) was built by volunteers there using traditional tools, techniques, and materials.




Ferns on an aqueduct.

Sporty

This shirt with a delightful automobile grill motif
was spotted at the Gandy Goodwill.
I daresay, had it not been an XXL, I would have snapped this one up.

In the Coliseum

"The South's Finest Climate Controlled Ballroom"

(The Coliseum, St. Pete)

Condo Lifestyle Is Watching U

No one in St. Pete can escape the comparative gaze
of Big Condo Lifestyle.

(Building site fence screen, downtown St. Pete)

A Little East German Flava...

...for this, our Glorious Day of FISA.

Inflatable Shark w/ Beach

(Pier 60, Clearwater Beach)

Ybor Tracks

Tracks are a half-block in front of busy Seventh Avenue, but the photo looks anywhere remote -- it could use a tumbleweed or two.

North Shore Park

(North Shore Park, St. Pete)

Ephemera No. 2

Previously:

• Ephemera

Ybor Image

A discarded sign from 2007's Festival of the Moving Image, an annual Ybor film festival.

El Puerto Restaurant

(Nightclub courtyard, Ybor City)

Mama Said

T-Shirt, at Urban Outfitters in Ybor.

Note to Wingnuts: Shirt refers to an L.L. Cool J song, not scaaaaary Black people.

Stop a Sec

Tampa City Center. Where?

Ybor City Street Art

The County Guard

(Lifeguard stand, Sarasota County)

Spanish Point, Set One

Historic Spanish Point in Osprey, an outdoor museum combining archeology, pioneer history, and nature walk along Little Sarasota Bay...

...small ferns grow from the trunk of a tree leaning in front of one the pioneer cottages...

...a view looking up at the pergola in the Sunken Garden...

...and at the foot of the Sunken Garden...

...a storage area? -- concrete built into a hillside that looked like a bunker...

...fishing on Little Sarasota Bay...

...and the first entry for Osprey/Spanish Point on Flickr's "Stick Figures in Peril" photo pool.

Garden Gate

(Ringling Boulevard on St. Armand's Key, Sarasota)

Where Is The Chalck?

Metaphysical Tampa Bay

Answers the Big Questions

(Cafe Bohemia, St. Pete)

North Lido Beach

In Sarasota, near St. Armand's.

Spa Beach

In St. Pete, on the approach to the Pier (between the trees, on the right). An old postcard here, depicting the beach in front of the old Million Dollar Pier, before the upside-down pyramid was introduced.

Pure Pop for Greek People

Greek artists on CD for sale in Tarpon Springs.

Tarpon Springs Banners

More Pier

Good sailing conditions, as evidenced by the sails in the backgrounds behind these pelicans.

There is a "Feed the Pelicans" cart for tourists, behind the wall that this one is standing on, which makes them willing photo subjects.

Weather Washout

A windy, overcast Saturday at the Pier in St. Pete...

...had the Pelicans burying their heads.

Harbor View

A morning shot from north Clearwater Beach, looking at Clearwater Harbor with the beach roundabout in the foreground.

Grapevine Entry

(1st Avenue South, St. Pete)

Kerouac on a Paper Towel Dispenser

(The Men's Room at Haslam's Bookstore, St. Pete).

Background:

Kerouac's years in St. Petersburg.

Kerouac's house here.

Gallery Walk

Highly Recommended: Emerging Artist Invitational, exhibiting until February 24, at the Florida Craftsmen Gallery. The exhibit includes Florida artists with no prior solo exhibitions.
At right, incense sticks and paper make up Burn Book (Gabriel) Volume 3, by Martin Casuso of Miami...











...Liliana Crespi's ethereal Sanctuary...
















...down the street at the Arts Center, Robert Stackhouse & Carol Mickett exhibit with Waves of Meaning until February 23...












The exhibit includes large sculpture, an example of which is perfectly captured by my shitty camera phone. In the Blue is created from painted cypress. Walking through is wonder, and disconcertion all at the same time, as the wood out of the periphery reminds one of storm debris.

Main Switch

(Downtown St. Pete)


See Also:

• Stylin' Kilowatts
  

Stuck in the Muck

Low tide at Old Tampa Bay, looking from Clearwater to the Bayside Bridge.

Sketches in Bare

Vulturous-looking outside of St. Pete...

A crane set to raise a new condo in downtown St. Pete...

...and a grass-free yard in St. Pete Beach.