by terranovabay
For those who hate black and white, presented here is the colorized version of Railroad Earth. Click to view the original.
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Beat, Florida, Fort Pierce, Jack Kerouac, railroad, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
A rare midweek holiday – July 4th – allowed me to pay an early morning visit to the Demonstration Garden at the University of Florida’s IFAS facility outside of Ft. Pierce in a quest to find insects and other small critters for my bug program currently in production. What I remembered as a beautiful walk through native plants and their habitats from a few years ago is now an overgrown morass of invasive exotics with native plants struggling to survive. […]
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Demonstration Garden, Ft. Pierce, IFAS, Institute of Food and Agricultural Services, St. Lucie County, University of Florida
by terranovabay
An almost 180-degree panorama taken from atop the observation tower overlooking the wetlands at the Indrio Savannahs. Although it is only mid-morning, the blazing temperature kept most of the wildlife out of sight and undercover and made the hike out and back one sweaty affair.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Indrio Savannahs, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
Looking out through the rain drops on the car window from a winter rainstorm.
Categories: Weather • Tags: Florida, Ft. Pierce, rain, St. Lucie County, winter
by terranovabay
The boarded up antique shop, the last incarnation of this building from 1926, suffered some damage to its sign at some point. Most likely from the hurricane. Click here for a different view of this building.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Florida Ridge, Fort Pierce, Indian River Lagoon, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
Time exposure of cars weaving through the construction area at the Port of Fort Pierce.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Florida, Fort Pierce, Port of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
Jack Kerouac’s fondness for the railroad led him to include many references to riding freight trains in his writings. One of his most poignant is the Beat prose poem October in the Railroad Earth. Whether working on the railroad or looking to hitch a ride, looking over the rail yards with the Fort Pierce skyline in the background evokes some of the wanderlust in Kerouac’s writings that stretched from small-town USA to cover the entire country.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Beat, Florida, Fort Pierce, Jack Kerouac, railroad, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
With the constellation of Orion visible in the sky, the past weekend’s so-called “supermoon” illuminates the Indian River Lagoon and the slow moving clouds in this nighttime time exposure from the Fort Pierce waterfront looking southward.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Fort Pierce, Indian River Lagoon, Moon, Orion, St. Lucie County, Supermoon
by terranovabay
Squint a little and this collection of fuel tanks at the Port of Fort Pierce looks like a futuristic city.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Port of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
Something peculiar about looking up this alleyway at the house at the top of the hill.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Florida, Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County
