Only in Florida...

Watching the news yesterday morning, it reminded me of an unusual site I saw back in November.

As we travelled south, I had a notebook at hand in the glovebox of the car to remember little things that we saw along the way. This was my favourite.

As we turned off of the freeway and down into our familiar neighbourhood with just one km left in our 2200 km journey, I saw for the very first time a Golf Cart going along the sidewalk. Now in this area, that is not unusual, however what was different about this – the banner across the hood of the cart read UPS.

Yes, the familiar brown shorted clad driver stopping along the way with the back of the cart full of parcels set for delivery. On reflection, I wish we would have stopped on the side of the road to watch for a while.

 

I have not seen the golf cart since and now that same familiar company is  trying out a pilot project to have drones land on top of their trucks. I will need to continue to keep my eyes open for drone landings on the famous brown trucks at the next traffic light along the way.

Marilyn Stubberfield 

 

 

 

 

Reminiscing from a December 2016 dream……..

It is 5:30 a.m.  I am wide awake and I think I know why. I just had the most amazing dream.

Usually I do not remember them. This dream is crystal clear.

Maeve and I walked out to the Point yesterday.  It was a special day. After lunching out for a bit of our favourite Chinese food, we decided to enjoy the rest of the sunny skies at the Point.

It was a special day. You see both Maeve and I are handicapped and not able to walk long distances. We forgot all about that, looking for scenes to paint and write about, chattering about the shape of this branch or that branch, which tree it fell from, how long it had lain there. Where is that bird making that screeching noise?  Shells, tons of shells all shapes and sizes we bent to pick up.

Before we knew it, we were there at the Point, as the gentle lake waters waved up over our shoes.

"We made it", we exclaimed in unison.  If only in our dreams, our day was complete.

The locals here refer to this as ‘the Point’ that tips beautifully out into Lake Erie, however here is a brief description “A lush Carolinian forest oasis at the southern tip of Canada, Point Pelee National Park resounds with migrating song birds in the spring, hums with cicadas in the summer, flutters with Monarch butterflies in the fall and is a peaceful place of reflection in the winter.” Anyone ever visited the park? It is the most southern point in all of Canada.