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Poignant Plaque

This is usually  a blog about St. Petersburg.  I try to show you glimpses of the city, little snippets of life, places to go, whatever strikes me that feels like St. Petersburg that I think you might find interesting.

But, every once in awhile, I come upon something that is NOT in St. Petersburg that I just love [...]

St. Petersburg -- Big City With a Small Town Feel

As I write my posts each day and I wonder what I’m going to write about tomorrow, there are all sorts of topics and ideas that jump into my head.  I’ve written about a lot of St. Petersburg places and events, I’ve shown sunrises and sunsets, I’ve mentioned some history, and I have hundreds of ideas [...]

Where the Wild Things Grow

Florida – named La Florida, or ‘place of flowers’, by Juan Ponce de Leon when he landed near St. Augustine in 1513.  Florida is known for our flora, and for the fact that you can always find lush plants growing and flowers blooming, year round.  St. Petersburg, situated as far south as we are in the [...]