Tag: Florida
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Eddie V’s Prime Seafood
If your goal is to dine in the middle of Grand Central Station, Eddie V’s Prime Seafood will make you very happy. I had been there once before with friends and found the atmosphere vibrant and fun. But going solo as a senior, I found it loud and the service slow. Because of that, I’d
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Imagine Museum
What a great name for a glass museum. Although many pieces are realistic and you can attach a noun to them like flower, monkey, or horse, others are more abstract. Their titles give you the opportunity to take a second look and imagine what you might have produced if given a concept like “Fractured Earth”
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Macrame – First Attempt
I decided I wanted to do macrame and I ordered a kit. I should’ve known from the online reviews not to get it, but I never learn anything the easy way. The comments said the directions were confusing. I’m a knitter and very good at reading directions so I figured those reviewers just weren’t as
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Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete
The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg has an eclectic mix of styles and subject matter from multiple eras. Their brochure describes it as an “encyclopedic collection of art from around the globe and across the centuries” and they have about 5,000 years of civilization represented. There are Greek, Roman, Asian, African and Native
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Caladesi Island
I’m not sure how many people choose to take a ferry to an island where the attraction is hunting seashells on the beach in the middle of a Florida summer, in a drought, with humidity raising the temperature by damn near 10 degrees. Oh yes, that would be me! And I have to tell you,
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James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art
I’ll get to the point right up front: I loved this museum. In fact, I’d put it on my all-time favorites list. This was an expansive, light, fresh space. The museum has two floors divided into galleries – Native Life, Early West, Native Artists, Frontier, and New West. There is an auditorium, an event space,
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Lunch on Limoges
This little restaurant’s name implies lunch will be served on Limoges china. I envisioned fancy, quiet, and sophisticated, right? And if it’s got Limoges china, it’s probably zhuzhy. The food and the ambiance must be exceptional. Hold that thought. Lunch on Limoges went into partnership with Florida Cracker Kitchen during the pandemic. It’s now Florida
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LunaSea Alpaca Farm
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “alpacas?” I’ll wager most people think of luxurious, soft wool. Not me. I envision little miniature-looking camels traipsing around the cliffs of Machu Picchu. And in fact, alpacas are native to Peru. So with an animal that lives at very high altitudes, it was a
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Duncheon’s Nursery & Blue Buddha Farm
I have two favorite places for plant shopping: Duncheon’s Nursery (just down the road here in Florida) and Blue Buddha Farm (recent online discovery). Duncheon’s is smaller than the big box nurseries, but it also has more variety in a not-found-everywhere kind of way. There’s a little of everything – flowers, shrubs, ferns, grasses, tall
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Solomon’s Castle
In your wildest dreams, can you imagine buying swampland in Florida, building a castle out of aluminum printing plates, filling it with “art” and then charging admission for tours? No, me either. But that’s what you get at Solomon’s Castle. Howard Solomon was born in New Jersey, spent a little time in St. Petersburg and
Lisa Browder 