A typically beautiful live oak. The park is full of them

One of many beautiful Azalea [sp] plantings, they're in full bloom
now all through lthis part of Florida, these are in the park.

A good shot of the Gazebo

Ann Thomas was a friend of our daughter, Deb.

The beautiful vell tower in the park.

One of the signs in the park

A short history of the Suwannee

The Suwannee from the gazebol The dock is a floating dock
sed by kyakers etc.

this is a shot of the Suwannee from the gazebo

This is at the Suwannee . Look closely at the pole with marks. The marks are high water marks in
prior year floods, over 40 feet above the river's normal height!

A few pictures from one of our favorite Tallahassee lunch spots. It reminds us of the Tiki bar
in Riviera Beach. The Tiki is on the Intra Coastal looking at Peanut Island. It's right at the
Inlet, and is a great spot. The Riverside is on the Wakulla river, about 2 miles from the Gulf
of Mexico near the top of the Gulf. It ain't the Tiki, but it'll do.
RHD

No body could be more of a republican than I am. I voted for McCain, and I'm sorry he lost. BUT,
Obama is now our president I want him to succeed, and I hope all my conservative friends feel the same.
God Bless America.
RHD

On Dec. 9, 2008, Marge and I decided to go back to North Palm Beach for a quick visit to join a lot of our Old Port Yacht Club friends at the North Palm Beach Country club for dinner. As you know if you have visited this space , our well loved Old Port Yacht Club has closed for good after
about 33 wonderful years. Our good friends, John and Joan Austen, decided to get the "gang' together every 2 weeks or so for dinner at the North Palm Beach Country Club. It caught on , and quickly becane a regular get together. They decied to have the Dec. 9 meeting
be their Christmas party, and invited Marge and I to come South for the event. It seemed like
just the right excuse for us to see all of our old friends at one time, so we accepted, and drove
South. We had a wonderful visit, and some pictures are below of the trip.
Bob Dodd

View of our old house on Singer Island. We lived here and loved it for about
20 years. I tsold for over a Million a few years ago. We built it, and a dock,, for
about $69,000 in 1069-70\
Bob Dodd

New house being built on Pat Brogan's lot where his house
stood, and was destroyed in Hurricane

On e view at the NPB Country Club

One of the tables at the NPB Country Club

One table at NPB Country Club

Fred Hosack and Don Neuman at the North Palm Beach Country Club

Veteran's Day, 2008
Tell me I don't look that old!
Put on a t-shirt I bought about 5 year's ago at a Collins Foundation show.
This is the first time I've worn it. Reason, no pocket for my glasses!

Marge and I are going to a Veteran's forum this afternoon, I'll
report on it later
RHD

The second day after our election. I reflect on the profound change in my lifetime.
Of course our election was about race as well as all the other problems.
At 85, I remember the attitude of my parents and their friends. If you had any job at all,
you probably had a black livein maid [the 30s]. You were prejudisced, but didn't know it.
The South still had Jim C row laws until the late 60s. White sheets still appeared at night
in the South.
I believe the beginning of the channge in prejudice came in WW II.
So now what. I am a conservative republican and voted for McCain.
I am somewhat disappointed in our election.
However, I am not scared of the future.
Our great country will probably shift somewhat to the left.
But it will survive, and prosper.
I believe Obama is highly intelligent, and will be a good, maybe great, president,
and I wish him well.
I will probably not live long enough to see all the changes that will take place.
We will probably elect a Republican president again in about 12-16 years.
President [elect] Obama, I wish you well
Robert H. Dodd

Yesterday, Election Day 2008, we went down to St. Marks again, and had lunch at the
Riverside Cafe. Anyone who goes to my daughter's blog, knows she is a suberp photographer
of Birds etc. along the rivers on which she kayaks. I took the following p pictures of the St. Marks local bird life. When I asked my daughter what they probably were [she hadn't seen them yet] she said Ospreys, pelicans, seagulls, eagles, or maybe crows. Of course they are none of the above. I'm sure after she sees this blog, she'll tell me what they really are.
RHD

A bird convention, St. Marks, Fl.
RHD

Our lunch companion, St. Marks

Greeter at Riverside Cafe, St. Marks, Fl. RHD