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It was just on a wall waiting, I added one square from another, trying to see how the overall effect would be
The reason for the existence of Sugar Mill Gardens is complex. It is first and foremost, an historic site, where the ruins of the old sugar mill from the former Dunlawton Plantation stand. There is little to be endeared with in that, as it was once a place of slavery and drudgery, greed and a lifestyle built on the backs of others. By the same token, it was a necessary part of life and trade back in the day.
Slaves at one point joined forces with the Seminole Indians during a war between the Indians and settlers. After the second one, the Indians succeeded in burning the mill down. What is left is a shell and remnants of that attack, and a reminder to people that injustice doesn't go unpunished, and labor should be fair and paid for.
During the Civil War, troops from the Confederate army camped in the very spot you're looking at. Their leisure was short lived, and after the war, so was their way of life.
Fast forward about 80 years. The once vast Dunlawton Plantation would be only a memory, but making a profit off this land was still very much in the forefront. As Central Florida's tourism grew, small theme parks depicting the beauty of Florida began to emerge everywhere. Northerners came to see the alligator farm in St. Augustine, and the beach of Daytona was being used as a race track during the early years of NASCAR. Even the old plantation, now reduced to a mere 12 acres, was reinvented as Bongoland, named for Bongo, a baboon that was the caged mascot of the place. (Why a baboon is beyond me, as they are certainly not native to Florida!) Anyway, during this time, people would come and take a tram ride through the park, where some 25 large concrete sculptures of dinosaurs loomed large over the grounds. The ruins were still, there, and people would carve their initials into the coquina to mark their passage through the park and also the anals of time. Children (and adults) would unthinkingly climb on the dinosaurs to take snapshots of their adventures in the Sunshine State.
Bongoland was a fleeting thought in the history of this place, lasting only about four years. Larger and more interesting and more profitable places were springing up all over Florida, drawing attention away from tiny, Bongoland. No one has ever mentioned what happened to poor Bongo. He was probably another victim of the greed that caged him, probably sent to a zoo or something.
Years later, the land was given to the county, and the place was deemed historic, and therefore, worthy of a little maintenance and upkeep. Volunteer gardeners created much of what you see now, and the county, almost too late, began to protect the historic ruins, and the 5 remaining sculptures that hadn't been ravaged to their destruction. Donations are accepted, but no fee is charged to enter.
When I began to come here regularly, a cat named Tigger lived here. Tigger had lived on the premises for many years. His family had left him for the volunteers to take care of, and fortunately, there were those who loved him and fed him. When I met Tigger, I knew he needed more, and began seeing that he got it, taking donations myself from people here on Flickr, from vet care to more food, to flea prevention, but what Tigger really needed was a home. I had to fight for that a little, but I won him, and for the next four years, Tigger was my cat.
There were times when I'd see Tigger looking out the window at the bright, full moon, and I know he was remembering this place, and being the little ruler of it. He'd look at the moon, almost with longing, until I'd open a can of food and he realized he liked it much better without the hundreds of mosquito bites and fights with other cats, and going hungry because a raccoon stole his food and slopped up his water by washing the kibble in it!
Tigger passed away Christmas Eve of 2012, and it's still a little hard for me to go to this place. It's not the same without him there. So I take lots of photos and visit again in a year or two. It is both happy and sad for me to be here, but it's beauty and story, right down to a baboon and a little cat, need to be shared, so I go, and I tell it. Perhaps knowing a bit about Sugar Mill Gardens and the cause and effect of the place will make these photos feel just a little more alive and meaningful to you, too.
original Ten has been bodyswapped and modded to be taller... perhaps exaggeratedly so, but that's the way i tend to visualise DT. new Ten is not modded at all... yet.
S!M is very confused...
ETA: this comic was definitely in the back of my mind:
The Butterfly Effect is simply:
If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, would it have an effect on the weather patterns in London? The obvious answer is no. But since every action has an effect on other probabilities... The result is infinite.
Seen @ Utrecht Botanic Gardens, Holland.
You can interpret anything from this picture, but if you understand this happens because of "Deforestation" then surely you are a "Nature Lover".
Happy T-Day everyone! May you find yourselves at a welcoming table and with plenty to eat...
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Photoshop CS4
Created for Award Tree "Art Tools and Materials Challenge"
(rejected)
You've got this strange effect on me...And I like it!
This Strange Effect by Hooverphonic | www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw67i1kZ9cY
Taken with Pentax K30 using the in camera toy lens effect filter . photo taken at Blyth Northumberland
#7 - Kim Klassen 's BEYOND LAYERS COURSE - 5/52: "Painterly Effect"
Textures Finale & Sienna by Kim Klassen.
Part of a very colorful mural on Route 66 in Joplin, Missouri.
11/2021 I just watched a documentary on PBS called "Called to Walls" that covered the making of this beautiful mural and a few others. With input and participation from the community, the project began shortly after Joplin was hit by a devastating tornado that killed many people and destroyed around 1/3rd of Joplin in 2011. It's qa moving film that is worth a watch if you can catch it.
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La ruota del mulino di Cerano fotografata con un particolare effetto della lunga esposizione.
Cerano (NO), Piemonte, Italia.
31/12/2017
© Tommaso Davite
School children on a field trip run into one of the stars of a once popular kids TV show, Suite Life on Deck (you have to be a certain age or have kids of a certain age to have any idea...). The star is now a student at NYU. He seemed pretty OK with it. My daughter says she has also seen him around campus, but that she, of course, kept her cool. ;-)
See below for an OMG moment shortly after...
Part of my Slice of Life Series