There is a consistency to my vague desire to find the perfect place to live these days. Aside from the basic affordability, the most important, and unobtainable, wished-for aspect, I want built-in photo ops on my doorstep. With that in mind downtown Lakeland might be just the spot for me.
Who wouldn’t love to have this park right outside their front door?Each year they have an event where they capture, band, and give veterinary check -ups to the resident swans at the lake. TV coverage of the event this year was how I knew the swans were even there.While swans are always lovely, I don’t know if I would have wanted to stop here on our way home, very loosely ‘on our way home’, were it not for knowing that they had black swans here. Now seeing them was worth the extra mileage.These were a treat to see.A youngster perhaps, judging by the lighter feathers?I think that this one was preparing to audition for Swan Lake.And a snowy egret in her golden slippers. She didn’t seem to mind being out numbered by her bigger feathered friends.
Birds do seem to dominate the Florida photo-op scene, don’t they? I’m lucky to live here where affordability is at least possible. Not to mention the photo ops.
A Snowbird's Life Through the Lens 