After writing my blog by the pool,
I went for a good run on the beach.
and then went for a (very) quick dip in the ocean and pool. Last night, the ocean felt really cold - I figured out that was because I was thinking "Oh, I'm in sunny 88 degrees Florida - let's swim in the warm ocean waters." Wrong, wrong, wrong! This morning I looked at it and thought "The ocean in Manchester, in August" and hey, it was about that cold - but I still went under twice! and then the cold swimming pool actually felt fine (but cold).
Our first stop was Saint Augustine (the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the continental United States)
and we visited Flagler College
After seeing "the Oldest House", and lunch at a nice restaurant on the water, we headed up to Jacksonville and the Cummer Gallery of Art. They have a lovely collection, beginning with untitled/uncredited view of Venice:
William Stanley Haseltine - Sunset on the Grand Canal, Venice, early 1870s
Edmund Darch Lewis - Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 1865 (a HUGE canvas!)
detail
John Kensett - Marine View of Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1864
opposite the Lewis was another HUGE canvas!
Thomas Moran - Ponce de Leon in Florida, 1877-1878
detail
William Trost Richards - Rocky Coast, 1887
Eugene Louis Charvot - View of Rue El-Alfahouine, 1889
Winslow Homer - The White Rowboat, St. John's River, 1890
Martin Johnson Heade - The St. John's River, c. 1890s
The Gardens are beautiful
and there is a HUGE oak tree!
Then one hour north to leave the State of Florida and spend the night at the Super 8 in Brunswick, Georgia. Thank you God for a great day!
Music today:
Marc Cohn - The Rainy Season (1993)
Quicksilver Messenger Service - 1st album (1968)
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Like a Rock (1986)
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