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Old Homosassa Veterans Day Ceremony

November 7, 2016 by KTgreen

Here in little Old Homosassa, we have a beautiful Veterans Memorial. Right on Yulee Drive. I can’t remember when it was built, but it wasn’t that long ago. I was living here. But that’s when I was living my hermit life. No volunteering back then. Yes, the good old days.

While Veterans Day is actually the 11th, the vendors start rolling into Old Homosassa that morning for the Homosassa Arts, Crafts, and Seafood Festival. The organizers wisely moved the ceremony to Saturday, the 5th. It was really a nice event.

Terry belongs to the veterans group that puts the event together. He and a few other volunteers get the podium and chairs for the audience out of the civic club and then put the road blocks in place. Other members put together the agenda.

Anyone in Citrus County that is a veteran can have a marker here. If a purple heart veteran, the marker is free.

Shirley and Terry — That’s Terry and his mom Shirley. She just moved to Sunflower Springs, an assisted living facility in Homosassa, a few weeks ago. Their bus brought her to the ceremony. By the way, she just turned 92!

There were several speakers. That’s Sophie Noel singing. the National Anthem. Back at the Memorial Day service granddaughter Piper was here and was mesmerized by Sophie and her singing.

There was a pretty big audience for little Old Homosassa.

The highlight was the Homosassa Elementary Chorus. They sang their hearts out. So cute.

After their performance they handed out flyers that they had colored to all of the veterans. This is the one they gave Terry.

Then they put flags on the memorial. If you want to add a flag, they will be available at the Old Homosassa Veterans Memorial booth.

It was a lovely and stirring event on a beautiful autumn morning.

Friday Meanderings

November 4, 2016 by KTgreen

And the beat goes on….

My apologies.

I thought I’d get to put some “photo of the day” here all week from Project 365 but it didn’t happen. My life isn’t my own. Just spent 2 hours on the phone with a reporter. And that’s the way every day is. Perhaps not a reporter but some kind of flux.

Except not really.

We are trying to make a difference but perhaps we are WAY OVER OUR HEADS!

Election

Homosassa Civic Club turmoil

Homosassa Arts, Crafts, and Seafood Festival

Tent City in Old Homosassa

Along with my typical every day disarray.

Reporter says the article will be in the paper on Friday.

Could be ugly.

But we will go on.

Karma. Will. Bite. Some. Ass.

Something fun I did get to do this week is go to Crystal River and get a tour of the Kings Bay Restoration Project by Gator Dredging. They are cleaning up the canals. Have several more years before it’s done but they are making a difference.

The tour was requested by the “Access to the River” Committee. We need to get this done on the Homosassa River but it takes a lot of money. Crystal River has a lot of rich donars and a lot of funding from the state.

Here’s some photos in no particular order.

So. Are you thinking. All those old people. What can they do?

Good People doing Good Things. Put that in your calendar or diary or whatever you mark stuff down in.

We still got at least 20 years. We will do A LOT!

It was a really great tour. And then several us went to Crackers to have dinner. Because I am all about fun!

I got a Grouper Reuben. No photo but it had sauerkraut on it. (in case you don’t know, some places use coleslaw–what??? but I still eat them. Cause I still love fish and I still love a reuben and I gained 3POUNDS from that bit of late night dining!)

This weekend is jammed packed with festivals! The Blues and BBQ will be at the Homosassa Civic Club festival grounds. Stone Crab Jam is in Crystal River. Inverness is having a fine arts event. So much to do!

Next week is the Homosassa Arts, Crafts, and Seafood Festival. Nothing else is going on anywhere in the county. Or perhaps anywhere in the state. Be there! Not too late to volunteer!

Have a great weekend!

Kathy

Things that fly….

September 26, 2016 by KTgreen

I posted this in my “Project 365” page as my photo of the day. He did not appreciate the paparazzi!

Here’s the rest of the story.

I didn’t scare him away for long. He came back the next day. And the next, and the next. Fishing is good on our canal!

I was trying to get a good photo of this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail as it flitted from blossom to blossom.

Then came across this one that was happily posing for me.

I know that this is a “skipper”. I did some research in my Audubon book and on the Internet and I think it’s a Long-Tailed Skipper. There are a bunch of them on this bush right now. Must be a good time for them!

My Audubon book calls this a Palamedes Swallowtail. Although I think I’ve seen it referred to as a Eastern Black Swallowtail.

And then I found three caterpillars on the milkweed. I’ve always assumed that they are Monarch caterpillars. But this year I discovered that the Queen butterfly’s caterpillar also uses the milkweed for it’s host plant and we had a few of them this year. So I did a little research. According to the Texas Butterfly Website, the Queen caterpillar has one “set of antennae and two sets of filaments, while Monarchs have one set of antennae and one set of filaments.” These guys definitely have three protuberances. Queen?

I never find the chrysalis. But I do know the difference as butterflies. Hopefully I’ll be there to get some snaps!