#florida trail

[bigpappahope]

[rovingwren]

Yesterday I had the craziest variety of crafts in my day.

I did punch needle and traditional embroidery. I crocheted quite a bit. I sewed some. I did jewelry crafting to make some wine glass charms and stitch markers. And I bought a hand crank cord knitting machine and made a few knit cords.

Amidst all that, I went for a really nice hike on a trail with a stream, but that was cut short by a big snake in the trail I didn't want to bother.

[whatsy0urdream]

Exploring America's National Scenic Trails: A Guide to 11 Must-Hike Trails

There are 11 National Scenic Trails in the United States, designated by Congress to recognize and protect some of the country’s most scenic hiking routes. Here is an overview of each trail, including their locations, length, hiking time, best time of year to hike, and terrain types: Appalachian Trail (AT): The AT is a 2,190-mile trail that runs from Georgia to Maine. It typically takes hikers…

[anna-in-wonderland]

Morning views from the Econfina Creek section of the Florida Trail

[wandering-jana]

Spanish Pond Trail.

Timucuan Preserve, Florida

June 2024

[emaadsidiki]

World Gorilla Day 🦍(24 September)🦍

[magnificentlymacabre]

[sstardust4ever]

Pinecrest gardens

[ratatatastic]

Emotions are high and the vibes could not be better today!

"Pretty awesome. Lot of emotions. Feels pretty hefty but like, fuck we're Stanley Cup Champions!"

When asked who the Cup is for? No hesitation, the fans.

"They sponsor us. It's for them. It's for them. Like they deserve it, they've been waiting for it, like it's for them."

how do you endear yourself to the fans? i think chugging a brewski while they chant your name will do it! and also complimenting them that too oh what a darling

CBS News Miami | 6.25.24 (x)

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)

Taken at Turkey Creek Sanctuary in Palm Bay, FL

[griffinequestrian]

Cruising through the neighborhood.

[bigpappahope]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'm on a bus all day today, and I just saw what looked like a covered wagon abandoned on the side of the I-75. Did their horses break down? Did Jebediah and his kin get Twilight Zoned into the 21st century? Did they not pack enough supplies when they set out from Independence, Missouri?

[thelittlespanielthatcould]

found a very cool park with a very cool dog

[intertexts]

Oh wait

You like fucked up towns?

Do you perhaps have any thoughts on towns and how to make them more fucked up? :]

(^^ words of something trying to make a small town map that’s fucked up)

OH. HUH. FUN QUESTION. i feel like. i am a terrible person to ask for thoughts on things like this because the extent of my writing is like, gay ass character studies & shit. but. i do have a ton of thoughts on fucked up towns.

the most important thing, i personally think, is having your town be grounded in a real regional place and it has to be a place you love. it's so difficult to make that shit up from scratch and still carry a real weight. and the horror or strangeness or sadness of the town should come from the reality of it.

picking a few of the easiest examples: welcome to night vale, night in the woods, h.p. lovecraft's miskatonic county. the fucked-up-ness of all of them springs from the nature of the place itself. they're not interchangeable, and they all have different emotions linked with them.

night vale is, very loosely, a satire of unbothered american suburbia in the face of-- well. all the horrific shit that post-9/11 unbothered americana ignores! and the strangeness and beauty of the setting comes from the easy and pleasant and mundane way that its citizens interact with the horror. it's day-to-day, it's chill, it's normal. yeah the faceless old lady who lives in your home is running for mayor. yeah the angels who work the community garden and live with josie finally won the case for their existence we can acknowledge them now cool. (& also of course night vale is a southwestern desert town & it doesn't let u forget that!! it's hot and sunny in the day and cold at night and there's sand dunes out by the edge of town and beaches with no lakes and it is very grounded in its setting!!)

possum falls from nitw, on the other hand, is a love letter to to those old, death spiraling pennsylvania rust belt mining towns. it isn't as heavily supernatural of a setting (outside of the old god in the mines the elders are sacrificing the most vulnerable members of the community to for nothing but the continued hollow, wheezing survival of something that should be allowed to die) but it's very grounded in the reality of those places-- the omnipresent forest, the dinky grocery store, your old high school classmate sitting out on her apartment steps at sunset, the feeling of being out in the autumn cold at dusk and the empty subway station and the weathered, half-hearted historical remnants of local pride and the ghost of the closed mine over it all. the type of dead-end, black hole, potholed main street town that you know you're gonna live and die in because it's what your parents did and what their parents did and god knows how you'd even make it out.

lovecraft-- i mean, mandatory disclaimer on his insane racism of course. up to u if u wanna read of his work, a lot of his short stories r very short etc. but crucially, for what we're talking about here, lovecraft was fucking in love with new england in the way that people who r born and raised in new england r insane about it. his lovecraft country/miskatonic county/arkham county is set in massachusetts, and he's very clear about why everything's set in mass: bleak, lonely, ancient, haunted by the sea and the lingering ghosts of twisted puritan ideology. his fucked up towns are the dark hidden backwoods, the port towns, the wretched things brought by settlers who have been a parasite upon the woods and the rocks and the fields for hundreds of years, etc, the feeling that something has gone wrong and perverted here and it's far too late to fix it.

so like, tl;dr-- don't try and make somewherw generically weird. figure out what place makes YOU go crazy go stupid. pinpoint Why it specifically makes u go crazy go stupid, as opposed to everywhere else. crank that shit up to 100!!!!

[memoryaqua]

Nova has returned!

“Nova is from a water planet in a faraway galaxy, surrounded by marine constellations and brightly glowing jellyfish,” Nova description on the trail’s website read. “On the back on the rock is a space portal with dolphins; using this portal, Nova can travel to Weeki Wachee and back to her planet at will.”