Bok Tower Gardens is located near Lake Wales, FL, about an hour drive southwest of Orlando. The “Singing Tower” itself is an 8-story, 205-foot, beautifully designed and ornately tiled Gothic Revival structure at the top of a very large hill (for Florida). It is called the Singing Tower because it houses one of the few…
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DJI Phantom 2 Vision+
I’ve been flying a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ drone lately for a project. Here are a few captures…
Cacti Council
A literal cacti council to celebrate our Cacti Council non-profit, which promotes creative and critical thinking concepts in education, especially computer science and its related disciplines. If you’d like to help out and/or be involved, let us know here.
Dragon Fruit Flowers
“Dragon fruit” (Pitahaya), are sweet, crunchy fruits about the size of a fist. On the outside, they look like oval balls of fire (thick red skin) decaled with green flames (leaves). On the inside, the majority of the fruit is either white or purple or yellow, and is peppered with what looks like black sesame….
The Crossroads Project
“Now is the time to believe what we know.“ – Yann Arthus-Bertrand “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.“ – Robert Swan The Crossroads Project is an interdisciplinary performance art project created and performed by various scientists and artists in order to raise awareness about climate change,…
Fishing Mosquito Lagoon
Today I took my father-in-law fishing at Mosquito Lagoon (more info), part of Canaveral National Seashore. I chartered Captain Don Hutson, recommended by a friend, and I couldn’t have picked a better man! He is absolutely the greatest fisherman I have ever met in my life, and is probably one of the best in the…