Florida outdoor Archive

Blue Bracelet

I spotted him leaning on the trunk of a Cabbage Palm just outside of Clewiston. His backpack cracked by the sun, his beard gray and long. I slowly drove by to catch a fleeting glance at his eyes. Clothes worn, shoes blown out, his skin hardened, hands formed around thick veins and a faded blue [...]
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Guess the Skull Contest

Trish W. from Idaho won the Guess the Blob Contest and received a copy of Michael Perry’s Population 485 and the 2010 Farmer’s Almanac. Thanks Trish for playing. Now it is time for another contest, this one is aptly called “Guess the Skull Contest”. The OSR visitor who correctly answers in the comment section [...]
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The Blob is Bryozoan ( Phylum Bryozoa)

Trish W. from Boise Idaho submitted Bryozoan as her answer and is our winner of the Guess The Blob Contest. Trish should be receiving her copy of Population: 485 this week. Fergi our OSR mascot added in the 2010 Farmer’s Almanac as an end of the year bonus. With all the global warming news out of [...]
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Guess the Blob Contest

Michael Perry’s book, Population: 485, is still sitting on my desk and is in fear of getting re-read, so we need to put the Guess The Track Contest to bed since we have no official winner. James D. was our unofficial winner but he grilled me with questions until I snapped like a frozen hickory [...]
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Showed off Her Beauty

By Bart Colucci Open Space Restoration combines nature with fiction, so to get the most out of each writing here is a brief trackline for this story: Lemna Valdiviani really does exist and on this day she did inspire. She was there, still in the water. Her eyes piercing forward, small breasts formed to perfection. There [...]
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