I took some photos this morning with my new Nikon Coolpix P900 “super zoom” camera, to test it’s capabilities; it offers an equivalent to a 2000mm lens (83x) and is very impressive:
Local birds
Nehrling Gardens
We visited a local “historic gardens” today; Nehrling Gardens created at the end of the 19th century by Henry Nehrling – he came to Florida from Wisconsin because he wanted a year round garden! He apparently specialized in Caladium plants, and the garden trust is slowly re-establishing a variety of them but for now they are not as impressive as they must once have been.
He built a home on a small part of the 40 acre lot that he purchased; that lot has been divided many times since, but the home is still in the gardens:
Most impressive to me were the Bamboo plants; one cluster (“Golden Bamboo” – second and third picture) was huge!
Also impressive how fungus is taking over dead wood:
The Gardens are also less than a mile from a great BBQ place, Yellow Dog Eats, so of course we finished our visit with lunch there:
Yellow Dog Eats
The end of MINI Takes The States 2016
Sadly, as in 2014, we were unable to join the huge 2016 MINI Takes The States event; we were able to follow along with the thousands of MINI owners – including Pedro with his MINI “Clark” via his MotoringFun website.
On his way back home in south Florida, he visited overnight, and we headed to a Disney restaurant this morning for breakfast – so I did get to drive a very small amount of MTTS 2016, with just two MINIs …
M&I / GBMINI 