Brass Bowl

One thing I look for is things that are  different from its surroundings.  This is perhaps the easiest flotsam to find, as it does jump out at you.  

This is the north face of Park Tower.  I wonder what happened that required the band-aid?  Did somebody trip and run into the wall?  Did an office worker loose it and toss a computer?   Lightning?  Meteor?

So what does this do?  I’ve scratched my head, and I have a few ideas, but I was curious if anyone KNOWS what this jig is for?

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Tampa Police Department has been running a highly visible traffic operation that I call Art Appreciation.

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If you don’t slow down and look around at the wonderful bits and pieces that make up Tampa, then TPD will issue you a ticket so you can contribute financially to the greater good.

This program needs to expand to the county and state levels.  People seem to loose all sense of humanity when they get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

This is the last five images of the double sided markers.

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This weekend the Bowl took a roll along the Van Fleet Trail.  It is one of the more rural Rails To Trails in the state, and the wildlife viewing is pretty good.  We started in Polk City and rode north to the Green Pond Trailhead, a distance of ten miles.  Waiting for us there was Green Pond Tom.

Judging from the multitude of dishes around, it looks like GPT has a few fans.

So after the break, we headed back south.  It was going to be a twenty mile day.  More than enough to tire me out.  But as soon as we started to get a little tired, a doe stepped into the road.

I took the camera down from my eye and a fawn bounded across the road from right to left, and mom disappeared after it.

At the midway point back, we stopped for a quick break, and noticed that the shelter at the five mile point was, in fact, Spider House.

These spiders are two to three inches across.

We left the spiders to their business, and start pushing pedals south.  But not for long.  Who can ride by a pair of Sandhill Cranes and not take some pictures?

It was a wonderful day on the trail.  We got some exercise, made friends with a feline, said yuck to the spiders, stared at the Sandhills and marveled at the doe and fawn.

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