Monthly Archives: March 2011

Mansions and Seductions

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

Like just about everywhere, I guess, there has been a proliferation of mega-mansions along the waterfronts of Skinny Island in recent years.  In most cases a perfectly acceptable, if smaller house, was bull-dozed to make way for a palatial monstrosity … Continue reading →

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The Feral Cubano

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

Perhaps because his early Florida ancestors lived under Spanish rule, and remembering his own proximity to Latin culture in Tampa, the Feral Poet has always had a thing about Cuba.  We cite the following case: New Pines In green glistening … Continue reading →

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Paddle Out

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

A perfect day: clear skies, temperature in mid-seventies, light winds, made even better by the first paddle out of the season.  We were working on re-glazing some of the 20-odd, 60- year-old windows on the little hacienda this morning and … Continue reading →

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Barefootin’, etc.

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

OK, this is weird.  Yesterday I related how a small iridescent beetle landed on my arm for a brief stay as I sat in the sun in a somnolent state.  I glibly noted I probably wouldn’t be seeing it again. … Continue reading →

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Somnolence, etc.

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

Invigorating morning trimming old branches from Texas Sable palms out back with chain saw.  As they grow the lower branches die, leaving broken off stubs in a cross-hatch pattern circling the trunk.  Ultimately these decay even more when trimmed close, … Continue reading →

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Skinks, Turtles and Smoke Alarms

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

We saw the first Skink of spring this morning, crawling up between the planks of the back deck.  For the uninitiated, uninformed and just plain slow, a Skink (family Scincidae)  is a fat bluish lizard that looks like a short … Continue reading →

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Tribes

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

Ah, a relative blessed quiet has descended on Skinny Island in our brief absence; the motorcycles are gone, poof, vanished, but coming back into the town and crossing the bridge the automobile traffic was like a holiday weekend, not a … Continue reading →

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The Feral Poet Skips

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

The Feral Poet doesn’t care much for Daytona Bike Week, especially the last weekend, when good weather like we’re having makes A1A a thunderous spectacle of overheated faux machismo.  He dropped off this one poem before splitting for the Gulf coast. … Continue reading →

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Connected

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

We’ve talked a good bit about our relative isolation here on Skinny Island, our reverence for the quiet, simple, small life dictated by the ocean and the changing seasons, but something else is happening here now as well, something unforseen … Continue reading →

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Fly-by

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Samuel Harrison

Multiple flights of large numbers of pelicans the past few days, headed south to north.  Must be filling in back up the peninsula from wintering farther south. Fifteen to twenty in a group, they glide along the dune line, or over the … Continue reading →

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