Plant City
American B&Bs are nothing if not full of character and the one in Plant City was no exception. We went there after our visit to Bok Tower house and gardens. The theme of the house was strawberries, and they were everywhere. This area is famous for strawberries, and an annual 'Strawberry Festival'
Larry and Dorie had a Western saloon-themed room, complete with a cowboy outside the swing door....
The next place we visited was Florida Southern College where there are several buildings that Andrew Lloyd Wright designed back in the 1920s. His designs are certainly unusual and very modern looking even by today's standards. Not especially practical however! The two buildings in the picture are both chapels.
Here's a homemade airspeed indicator and the homemade airplane it came from. The plane standing on its tail is an experiment of the Fifties that wasn't followed up; it took off and landed on its tail; the pilot climbed up a special stepladder to get in. The plane in the middle picture was built by a man who had a sense of humour. There’s a 'bulb horn' attached to the side of the plane, and as he was a good citizen he always had a plane parked in his front garden in case a neighbour needed to get to hospital in a hurry!
begins tomorrow and lasts for 11 days!
Larry and Dorie had a Western saloon-themed room, complete with a cowboy outside the swing door....
And ours had a slightly unusual table lamp cum decoration. What you can't see is that when the lamp is lit the locomotive wheels turn! Outside the house was an unusual garden decoration. Talk about quirky!
After breakfast we went to Hollis Gardens which were small but lovely situated on Lake Mirror. On the lake were a couple of 'wood ducks'. Very attractive they were. Oh, and a cute lizard.
The next place we visited was Florida Southern College where there are several buildings that Andrew Lloyd Wright designed back in the 1920s. His designs are certainly unusual and very modern looking even by today's standards. Not especially practical however! The two buildings in the picture are both chapels.
On the way back East we spent an hour or so at the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland. Quite small, it was very well set out with educational displays showing development of things like piston and jet engines and propellers; it even mentioned the 'B' word (Bernoulli).
Here's a homemade airspeed indicator and the homemade airplane it came from. The plane standing on its tail is an experiment of the Fifties that wasn't followed up; it took off and landed on its tail; the pilot climbed up a special stepladder to get in. The plane in the middle picture was built by a man who had a sense of humour. There’s a 'bulb horn' attached to the side of the plane, and as he was a good citizen he always had a plane parked in his front garden in case a neighbour needed to get to hospital in a hurry!
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