Mystery solved

Great guesses! Kathy nailed it. Until recent years, I was always a syrupy kinda gal, not caring so much for honey. While buying gifts for a honey-loving friend, the honey man offered a sample and I was hooked. Tupelo is my first choice with saw palmetto running a fairly close second. I'd like to collect a sample-size variety and taste test sage, gallberry, sourwood, blackberry... Any honey aficionados out there?

Monday Morning Mystery

So sorry I've been scarce here. Real life is taking a lot of new turns and I'm trying to adjust to new schedules which are interfering with my computer time. 8-}

Hint: this one is (wo)man-made. 8-]

Florida Factoid Friday

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Pennekamp Park, off Key Largo, is the nation's first underwater park. Covering 75 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean, the area is a combination of state lands and federal holdings preserved as a reef of living coral.

Florida Factoid Friday

Monticello resident and U.S. Marine Sergeant Ernest "Boots" Thomas led the patrol that planted the first American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi during the ferocious battle of early 1945. This achievement was overshadowed by a second, highly-publicized flag raising later the same day. In the vicious fighting that followed on Iwo Jima, on 3 March, 1945, Thomas was killed in action. His family later received the Navy Cross awarded for his service.

Mystery solved

Sara was first to guess this week's mystery is a toad. I wish I'd had time to dig for more information about it. Anybody know what kind? He had made himself a home in a bag of potting soil, so I'm not sure if he started life here or at Lowe's.

Monday Morning Mystery

Southron Sunday - quotes from the WoNA

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President,

then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die

than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
- Belle Boyd

Florida Factoid Friday

The largest occupied wooden structure in the world is the Belleview Biltmore Resort, built in 1897, in Clearwater.

Well, it's actually unoccupied at the moment. On 1 June, it closed its doors to the public to begin a $100,000,000+ restoration and renovation. It is supposed to reopen sometime in 2012. The Golf Club is still open.

Mystery solved

Great guesses! I can definitely see how each is a possibility. Jena got the right one... it's a Queen. She's one of my favourites and I'm always tickled to find quite a few down on Mandalay Road.

It seems as if we haven't had as many butterfly visitors this year. That might have something to do with the heat and/or my not getting out as much as usual. And our butterfly bushes can't compare to the original plant that grew right outside the front door till something done it in. Reckon I'll have to schedule a lep-hunt this weekend. Hopefully the forecast, no rain, will be right. We've had some real frog-stranglers lately.

Monday Morning Mystery