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For Jeb at Palm Beach Gardens Golf Course

During a recent visit to go wack out some range balls, I noticed that the leaning pine had been recently struck by lightning and is now browned out and on its way to becoming lighter knot. I had mentioned to Jeb that I think I may have a pic pre lightening strike and with a [...]
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Delonix regia: Royal Poinciana

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Cabbage Palm’s Pending Obsequies

This is a poem describing the imminent death by strangler fig of a particular cabbage palm. This strangle hold of another is what I’m barely surviving, the once symbiotic union that really never was. Soon, only a glimmer of Freedom will exist, I plead then that I may continue to feel the Eagles’ talons, bitterly, I will live as [...]
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Dead Christmas Trees are suddenly appearing

Dead Christmas Trees are suddenly appearing in waterways. Throughout Florida as many as ten, or even thousands of Christmas Trees have been found floating in canals. In one case a Christmas Tree had no time to react as lights and stand were still found attached to the misdirected tree. Now it just floats awkwardly sideways depleting [...]
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Barley Barber Swamp: South Florida’s Greatest Legacy

Bart Colucci Barley Barber Swamp, which was closed to the public after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is now open for guided tours. Put politics and big business aside and get out and see the swamp. This is South Florida’s Greatest Legacy. I have waited about 4 years to get a glimpse of Barley Barber Swamp , [...]
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