Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Day 9 Cattle Drive Sculpture Project and Taylor Creek Trail

 We eat our main meal at noon and a salad in the evening.

We had pan-sauteed salmon cakes with melted cheese, steamed asparagus and boiled carrots and potatoes.   This little camper has a very functional kitchen.  We baked little frozen chicken pot pies in the oven the other day.  We are gradually buying more kitchen equipment, but today we bought a small cookie sheet to make oatmeal raisin cookies that was too big to fit in the little oven!

                                                                                
We visited the town of Okeechobee today and walked through some incredible bronze sculptures of what you'd see on a cattle drive.

                                                                                
    
                                                                                    
                                                                         A Brahma bull
                                                                                 
                                                                                     
                                                                         The Cow Dog
 This plaque says that a well-trained cow dog is worth the work of several cowmen.
  
The whole set of sculptures from behind.  The flag in the distance is being flown at half mast in respect for the the victims of the Christian school shootings in Nashville 2 days ago.


This street has a very small town feel to it.  We went into the Nutmeg Coffee shop and had a homemade ice cream and a "Rosemary Lemonade".  Guess who got the ice cream?

                                                                                    
                                    Inside the Nutmeg Coffee Shop

                                                                                
                                There was a group of people at the square in Okeechobee with bull horns and handing out flyers about Biden's upcoming pending legislation about giving powers to the WHO (World Health Organization) among other issues.
                                                                                
                             
              This lady had a bullhorn saying "USA!"among other things we couldn't understand.



We took a walk on the Taylor Creek Stormwater Treatment area Trail.  Central Florida has so much land in it's natural state.  This was another great spot to view wildlife.  Today it was just birds -- in the heat of the day:
                      
                                                            A Cormorant drying it's feathers
           A Great White Egret (think "Buddy") and a Wood Stork share a puddle to find food.
                                        

                            The Taylor Creek was all but dried up with the 18 month drought.
                                                                                        

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Renie it's about time you got on a picture.

Anonymous said...

Haha! Who made that comment?