Different Town - Same Result

Progress is everywhere!

Apparently no matter where you go.

So what likely used to be.....

Will soon be.......

Now, this certainly isn't as bad a some monster concrete and glass c-c-c-condo, but a lot of the charm of old time Florida is slowly - or in some cases, not so slowly - disappearing.

Of course, if you talk to an alligator or an Osprey, they might say even the old style charm is long gone as far as they're concerned.

Then one would bite your leg off and the other would poke your eyes out.  Now that's Florida!

Then you would stagger into a swamp and a poisonous Water Moccasin would bite you and thousands of malaria infected mosquitoes would also bite you.

A friend one told me that when most people think of Florida, they think of the little one mile strip all along the coast.  When in actual fact [Ed. note: as opposed to your normal made-up facts?]  99% of it is scrub brush and what I've just described.

Oh yeah, and recently, this like....

As Florida - well, the Everglades anyway - is being overrun with huge pythons.

Florida recently had a contest to try aned catch as many of these snakes as possible.  As they ere eating just about everything they come across.

1,500 "Python Hunters" signed up and the contest and it went for six months.

Result;  only 68 pythons captured.

The picture above being one of the 68.  It's claimed they said, "You should have seen the one that got away."

Regardless, I better get used to a lot less of.....

And a lot more of......

Which is still better than.....

And......