Soil, Soil, Soil

Here in northwest Florida, we have long hot summers, and high humidity throughout much of the year. This creates optimum conditions for insect and bacteria growth, even those insect pests that irritate our gardening efforts. Therefore, we organic gardeners have to give extra care to our garden soil. Soil, soil, soil. The soil will make or break a garden. A healthy soil will produce healthy plants that will resist insect pests to a point. Other factors will also help the plants resist insect pests as well.

To care for the garden, a healthy layer of compost needs to be fed and mixed in with the earth, and other layers need to be put on the garden periodically. Some of the compost needs to be mixed in and some need to simply cover the earth like a sheet. On top of that a layer of mulch will protect and keep the compost in place and keep the water in place. Without mulch, heavy rain can wash out the compost sheet, and not provide a firm barrier from our hot sun rays tagging the land.

The compost has to have part carbon elements, such as grass, weeds, pine needles, leave, and nitrogen elements, such as kitchen vegetable and fruit scraps. The compost content is very important. I am still in the process of developing healthy content for the compost bin. I have much to learn. I know from others that a good mix of horse manure and hay is a good form of soil compost. Mushroom compost
and fish compost are great too.

Much of what we can do with our gardens is restricted b y the heavy burden of home owners associations with all their dos and don’ts.

I am learning all the time how to have a good organic garden. Your suggestions are encouraged. I also subscribe to Google Alerts on “organic gardening,” ” gardening,” “compost.”

The Land I Love

When I turned 16, I started to drive and thought I was so cool. Instead of impressing girls, and buddies, I drove up and down roads all over Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, in northwest Florida, where I lived most of my life. I was fascinated with nature, the land, and wanted to see where the roads led to.

Around Milton, Florida, there is so much nature: state and national parks, and rural land. My love of the land originated from my dad, who took us camping in the mountains of southern California, where I lived the first 9 or 10 years of my life. It was there also, that I got into scouting, and more camping.

Then, we lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico for two years before coming to northwest Florida. I hiKed and camped in the beautiful Sange de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, and the Sandia Mountains. I felt so happy on the land. The boy scouts was my passion.

When I discovered the bicycle, I rode everywhere including the many trails in the woods behind our home at 11 Shady Lane, Milton, Florida. I explored with my buddy Mark, Shane, Toby and others. I learned a lot about squirrels and other elements of nature.

When old enough to drive, I found another way to explore the land. Found it in Milton, Pensacola and elsewhere in Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties.

I wonder who lived in this house

The other day, I saw this lovely, charming, home, near Madison, Florida. I had to pull out my Treo, and take a few pictures of it. Someone at sometime, lived in this house, ate in it, washed in it, changed clothes in it, stored materials in it, and was comforted by the home atmosphere. In other words, this dilapidated, run down, wooden structure, served the need for one or more individuals.

I really was not trying to be cute by saying that this is a lovely, charming, home. However, it probably was in the past. I have seen many structures like this, that at one time served as a comfortable home. I have often stopped my car to get out and walk around, and into these abandoned houses. I never get tired of that, and it fascinates me. I look forward to the next abandoned home that I can explore. There are plenty of abandoned homes in northwest Florida.

Since childhood, I have been fascinated with old structures, and abandoned homes,such as this. Dad took me to old ghost towns when we lived a couple years in New Mexico, when I was an elementary aged child. We walked in and out of abandoned buildings on abandoned roads. This had an impact on my interest in old structures. If you have not experienced the sights, sounds, and smells of abandoned towns, ghost towns, you have missed an experience that I can say, I have had.

I recall the summers I spent on my grandpa’s farm, in Santa Rosa County, Florida, and the exploration I did of old wooden barns and storage building on his, and nearby farms. It was fun climbing in and out of these wwden buildings, exploring lofts, dark rooms, and passageways. It was fun climbing up onto the roofs, and entering through open spaces between walls. I used these buildings as if they were tree houses. One farm had maybe 10 different building to explore. What joy for a 10 year old. I think these simple wooden structures held more interest to me that teasing, and scaring the pigs and chickens.

Later, as I did my three years in the service, stationed in Germany, I walked all over the land, into the countryside, into the forests, and found old structures, some even medieval, and had opportunities to enter and explore these abandoned dwellings.

Each building is a story. I like to imagine and contemplate on those who used the buildings and what they did in them. A picture tells a thousand words the saying goes, well, seeing an abandoned building is a picture, and thousands of words are telling a story. We just have to ponder the story as we view and experience the house, barn or other abandoned improvement on the land.

Joy in Florida’s State Parks

If you really want to know Florida, you need to get out into our many state parks, 161, in total, national parks, and local parks. Florida is a state of outdoor pleasures and recreation, I know,  I grew up in northwest Florida, and have camped, hiked, and swam, in most of the many state parks in the region, including a few national seashores, for example, Gulf Islands National Seashore.

 

There is so much more to Florida, other than sunny, coastal beaches, boating, deep sea fishing, and cultural attractions of the big cities. Florida is a land of  various ecosystems, and natural preserves. Traveling from Pensacola, Florida, to Tallahassee, Florida, where I live, most of what is seen are forest lands, with an inexhaustible appearing of pine trees almost everywhere.

 

When you get out into our forests, you find our different species of pine trees. It seems that my friends, the pines, are everywhere in north Florida. I am thinking of the many tents I have put up underneath these forest watch towers. So much is attributed to the pines, economically, historically, and in terms of ecosystem survival. I have built many campfires using pine logs for fuel, and pine needles for tinder. I have used fallen pine trees as benches for sitting, and objects to practice my wood carving skills. I have used pines hang my hammocks, put up my clothesline, and to hang food. I have observed so many squirrels climbing up and down pine trees, and when I was a kid, in Milton, Florida, we had an abundance of squirrels in our pine rich backyard. Of all the trees on earth, the pines are my favorite. They take me down memory lane. For me, they represent nature in the world I know the most. The smell of pine, on a wet rainy day, or sunny day, in a thick pine forest, is a good and satisfying aroma, to me.

 

The Florida Trail, which goes 1,400 miles, from Big Cypress National Preserve in far south Florida, all the way to Fort Pickens in the Gulf Islands National Seashore close to Pensacola, Florida, in the far northwest corner of the state.  No, it is not the Appalachian Trail, with its many challenges, but the Florida Trail offers a different variety of challenges, from hiking through swamps, thick jungle like sections, and very high temperature, and humidity. Also, Florida has what some would say, every kind of dangerous snake, spider, and other critters, found in North America. The Florida Trail is not a fast walking trail. Caution is always necessary when on the trail.

 

There are many smaller hiking trails all over Florida, even within my nearby community of Tallahassee. There are many people in Tallahassee who are passionate about hiking, and camping, and the other day, I went to one of the local hiking group’s meetings, and listened to what the new schedule of hiking and camping trips consist of and where the events will take place.

 

To get involved in group hikes, trail maintenance, and to learn more about Florida’s trails, a good organization to join is the Florida Trail Association. Invididual membership is $30. Family membership is $35. The Apalachee Chapter which in in northwest Florida has a website, and it is http://apalachee.floridatrail.org. There toll-free phone number is 800-343-1882.

 

Northwest Florida has caves, in Mariana Caverns State park, in which the public can enter and view the rock formations, and learn about cave formation. There are other caves which I have found in north Florida as well, on private property as well as public lands. North Florida even has waterfalls, rolling hills in and around Tallahassee, and other parts of the region, many lakes, swamps, rivers, creeks, streams, bays, inlets, islands, white sand river banks, such as on the Blackwater River, near Milton, Florida, shell banks, shell mounds, Indian mounds, and sink holes. North Florida, which I know the most, is a great study of nature, and what the glaciers left so long ago as they helped to construct what is today, Florida.

 

One of my favorite activities growing up in northwest Florida, was swimming. I swam everywhere where there was water. I swam across lakes, and rivers. I loved swimming so much that during high school, I was on the Milton High swim team. During my college years at the University of West Florida, I divided my recreational time between swimming, playing tennis, camping and hiking.

 

Come on, you just got to experience the Florida outdoors, and if you live in Florida, experience more of land. I am always discovering something new in the land of northwest Florida. Now, I can share my outdoor love, with my son, and wife.

 

To find camping vacancies and reserve your campsite in any of Florida’s state parks, go to http://reserveamerica.com.

 

When I am in my organic garden, here in northwest Leon County, just outside of Tallahassee, looking over at the green zone conservation area, in back of our property, or when I am sitting beside a campfire in one of our favorite parks, or when, I am on a trail hiking, I think of the verse from Genesis, which always means much to me: “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” The bible does not say it was just good, or just beautiful, or just OK, but it says that it was “very good.” That is exactly how I feel about nature in northwest Florida. It is so comforting to acknowledge this “very good” work of the Creator, especially on a very hot August day, or a cold January

day.

 

Here are some other useful Florida sites:

http://floridagreenwaysandtrails.com  Florida has many greenways

http://fl.dof.com  About Florida’s forests

http://floridastateparks.org  Good resource on state parks in Florida

http://VisitFlorida.com  A must see for people interested in Florida

 

A Weekend at Sandestin in Northwest Florida

This weekend, we had fun, relaxation, a lot of swimming, thick hamburgers, bicycling, and beautiful landscaping to view, all at Sandestin  Resort in Destin, Florida, on the northwest Florida white sand dunes of the Gulf of Mexico, close to Ft Walton Beach, Florida.

I think what impressed us the most this weekend at Sandestin, was the many palm trees, flowers, and landscaping all over. I only had my Treo 700 with me as I did not bring the digital camera, but it is always amazing how the cell phone pics can turn out good, to a degree.

 

We had this pool view right down from our balcony on the 5th Floor of Hotel Luau at Sandestin.

Sandestin is an enormous resort with many hotels in this Destin vacation spot. There are two big shopping districts, with restaurants, and art galleries. I would recommend Mangos if you want a big hamburger and nachos. It is in the Villages, which has a zipline, and trampoline area.

Look at the beautiful view of the soft, warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. We walked along the beach at night as well, and the water was so warm, just like in our swimming pool.

There he is, my son, always fascinated with every place we visit it seems, as long as we do more recreational activities and not so much window shopping, and viewing art shops. Oh, well, he is a typical boy, all the way.

What boy does not dream of a tree house like this. We all went up to the top, to the terrace way above. This is on the marina, bay side of the resort. By the way, everyone gets an hour of free use of the canoes, kayaks, tennis courts and bicycles.

You won’t see this view in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I met a family visiting from Albuquerque. I stated that I lived in New Mexico for a couple years as a young child, and that Albuquerque is probably vastly different now. I stated that New Mexico made a very big impression on me as a child, and it influenced my direction towards the love of nature, and the outdoors. One person in their party agreed that Albuquerque is  different, and that I am not missing much. The said that they would rather live on the beaches of Florida.

These spectacular palms. I had to observe the many varieties of palms, and the colorful landscaping. Flowers were all over. As an early riser, waking up typically around 5:00 in the morning, I prepared my coffee, and headed outdoors when the light appeared, and found a cozy sitting area, to read my Bible Lesson, and then, to walk around and view the flowers and the trees. Did all that before my morning swim.

Sandestin

Let Us Keep The Zoo Northwest Florida

The largest zoo (about 57 acres according to one observer) in northwest Florida is located near Gulf Breeze, Florida near the white sand dunes of the Gulf of Mexico. I have been to that zoo many times, having grown up in northwest Florida, and specifically the Pensacola, Gulf Breeze area.

The Zoo Northwest Florida is in an ideal location. You can visit it, and also go to the beach. The zoo is actually a park, with wide open spaces for the animals, and people to view them, and plenty of local fauna, trees, shade, and a great environment for a zoo. You can take a safari train ride and see the animals you would expect to see on a safari. There are 1300 animals in the zoo, including animals native to Africa, South America, Asia, and North America. Animals have been born there, and the coyotes are a new addition.

Now, having said all that, there is a serious problem. The Zoo Northwest Florida, is in financial crisis, and will be closing its doors. The local city and county governments will not give any financial support to the zoo, and the money that the zoo has received during its years of operation, come from tickets sold to get in, donations, charities and business contributions. This just does not cover the costs.

People having lived in the area are sad by this appearing reality facing them. The Zoo has become a popular landmark in the region. Weddings, birthdays and family reunions  have taken place there.

The Zoo is in an area that in recent years has seen much real estate growth with so many new single family home developments between Gulf Breeze, Florida, and Navarre, Florida, another coastal community. This is a great region to live in with the beautiful Gulf of Mexico warm waters for much of the year, and its pure white sand and sand dunes. It is growing, yet there are so many open spaces.

As one who loves animals, I would not be happy to see this beautiful park combination zoo, disappear from the scene. I only wish I could do more to help, so that I and others can make more visits.

When I think of ranch homes, I think of Frank Lloyd Wright

Looking at things that are uniquely from the heart and soul of the United States, I find that the architecture, vision, and interior designs, of Frank Lloyd Wright fit that category of uniqueness. One lasting contribution of Frank Lloyd Wright is the ranch style home that is found all over the nation.

I grew up in different ranch style homes, and have a particular fondness for this American architectural style. Most of the homes of my childhood, in northwest Florida, and even now, are ranch style homes. They are everywhere. Tallahassee, Florida is filled with small, and big, ranch style homes.

Actually, the ranch style home came after the other earlier contributions of Frank Lloyd Wright, such as the Praire home, but it was his vision, that made this architectural style the most widespread, and popular home style from the early 1940’s through the 1970’s. Unfortunately, not many home builders today make real ranch style homes, but that is not a bad thing since there are so many of these homes in most communities anyway, as long as buyers don’t mind having an older home.

The fascination that Frank Lloyd Wright had with horizontal lines, open spaces inside the home, built-in shelves, window seats, high windows, long rectangular forms, oneness with nature, natural materials, natural movement through the home, simplicity, spaciousness, low pitch gable roofs, earth colors, are fixed into ranch style homes. The homes opened up our lives to one another, and allowed for more sense of community within. The thinking of the great America architect is manifested all over the ranch style home.

One of the features of a ranch style home that most identifies it as such, is the very low gable roof, a gable that has a low pitch, and can even be flat in some versions of this home style. Look at the many homes that Frank Lloyd Wright created around America, and you will see the flatness, or near flatness of the roof, and the dominance of the horizontal over the verticle, and how these homes fit right into the local natural environment.

That is why I am so attracted to Frank Lloyd Wright and his architectural achievements. I too, love nature, and grew up hiking, camping and admiring the natural surroundings, not far from ranch style homes. I can’t think of another home style that so appropriately fits in, and snuggles with the land forms around it, and the trees that shadow it.

Frank Lloyd Wright did so much more than planting the seed for ranch style homes, but compared to his other architectural works, the ranch home became the most common, popular, practical for most people, and more affordable. With ranch came a new, tremendously successful and vibrant lifestyle. More people became home owners than ever before.

I don’t think the ranch homes will go away anytime soon. There are so many of them, and not everyone will want to live in two story homes. Many of us like one story homes, with easy access in and out. You know when you get a true ranch creation, you will have a good piece of work, a solid structure, that has lasted for many years. Tallahassee has so many of these strong, brick structures, with the characteristic low pitch gable roofs.

How I Twitter To Share and To Learn

In between those blog posts, sometimes big posts, and work demand, I like to twitter.

I go to http://twitter.com and find myself
reading twitters from my friends and from the general public before I input my twitter posts, or I may go right to work at twittering.

What is the big deal about Twitter, you say. Well, it is extremely popular and so many are twittering. It is a fast way to build a network: social, common interes, or business. It has high SEO. Search engions love Twitterers. The big benefit is that you are not reading someone’s long, boring blog post, since Twitter posts are small, mini-blogs that focus on answers to the question, what are you doing now.

The answer to that question can have a wide diversity of responses. What you are doing now can be a thought you are thinking, an act you are performing, a dream you are having, a desire you are planning to experience, a mood you are in, a complaint you have, an issue you are working to resolve, knowledge you are sharing, a longing you sharing with the world. It is unlimited the number of responses to the question, What are you doing now?

Since I have been using Twitter as a vehicle to grow my business, make friends, get to know others in my community and in lands that interest me, I have read posts about: animal husbandry, cooking suggestions, favorite dishes, successful and unsuccessful relationship, the latest in music and video, travel experiences (my favorite), yard work, waiting in line, real estate interests, real estate professionals networking with ideas, buyers looking for homes, sellers wanting to sell their homes, friends learning about technology used by each other. So much diversity and idea sharing goes on in Twitter.

Who gets benefitted by all this? Kennet Fach, a Mortgage Consultant and Real Estate Agent.
Twittering is now my passion. It is my way of keeping up with others, getting instant news before it is even in the news. I can even get northwest Florida news and happenings sometime very fast through this tool.

Twitter brings out the best and sometimes the worst within us. I can work on my strengths and reduce my shortcomings thanks to the feedback from other Twitters. We all have something to share. We can share on Twitter in short messages. Nothing long is allowed. Just short, in phrases, sentences, broken sentences. It is not a grammer test.

So I invite you to my Twitter posts at http://Twitter.com/kenfach.

Defining Ranch Styles Homes to Buyers and Realtors

I hear so many people, even people in the real estate field, incorrectly stating what is a ranch style home. I want to make some clarifications, as the ranch style home is an American icon, and covers the land, from coast to coast.

Here in Tallahassee, Florida, and all throughout northwest Florida, there are many, many ranch style homes in all sizes.

A ranch style home must be rectangular shape, but can be a rectangle in U-shape form, a rectangle in L-Shape form, with an attached  garage or attached carport on one side. Size is irrelevant to ranch homes, as I have seen ranch style homes as small as 1000 square feet to spacious horizontal structures over 3000 square feet.

Ranch styles homes are focused on the horizontal, not the vertical, like other architectural types of homes, such as colonials, traditional, cape cods, and contemporaries. Ranch style homes are lower lying to the earth, and can harmoniously fit in well with the local environment, such as our Tallahassee, Florida environment with its many evergreen trees: the pines. 

Every ranch home must have either a low-pitch, gable roof, or a flat roof. This is where people sometimes make the big blunder. Drive through most any established neighborhood in Tallahassee, Florida, and you will see true ranch style homes. A home may be a ranch in every way, but the roof is not a low-pitch gable roof. With a ranch style home, the roof and the rectangular shape are the two fundamental characteristics. You can almost be certain that if the home’s roof is low-pitch gable, on a rectanglar body, the home is probably a ranch style home, especially in Tallahassee, and surrounding area.

Ranch style homes are not fancy, sophisticated, elegant on the outside. Rather, they are simple structures, and may or may not have a front porch, covered or uncovered. Ranches do have a back porch, patio or deck, which fits in with the tradition of ranches, in which family, and neighbors got together and grilled in the backyard, and lived in the yard more. I grew up in ranch homes, and can attest to that fact. We always congregated in the back yard, played badmitten, grilled burgers, and hot dogs, and overly used our lounge chairs. The backyard served an important role of getting together.

Now, for the indoors. My buyers say they want an open floor plan, but how many people realize that it was the ranch style home from the early 50’s that popularized the open floor plan. Ranch homes opened up the home for countless numbers of young Americans looking for their first home. Today, almost every home, with almost every architectural style, has an open floor plan, and that is an important feature for most everybody it seems. That kitchen, looking out onto the living room, or family room, and dining area, so entertaining is more comfortable, and people can feel more together. Also, an open floor plan usually allows for more light coming in, and people today expect a lot of light in their homes. Truly the homes of today, are even more open than many of the early ranch style homes.

Another fact about the interior of ranch homes is that there is a hallway with the bedrooms and baths starting from the foyer, and the foyer is the channel to the two segments of the home. Opposite of the hallways or at a 90 degree angle to it is the open floor living, entertaining and kitchen area, and sometimes the master bedroom and master bath are on the opposite end of the home from the other bedrooms, or in other cases, could also be down the same hallway starting from the foyer. There is order in ranch style homes, and you usually know where you are going.

Sometimes these homes have built-ins. Today, the built in entertainment center, book shelves, so forth, also come from the early ranch style home days.

Ranch homes often have a fireplace, often brick, or stone, but not always. Traditional ranch style homes used natural materials representing the local environment. Fitting in with nature has always been a theme for ranch style homes.

We owe so much to the ranch style home. I am so grateful I had the opportunity to have lived most of my life in this kind of dwelling. I will forever love ranch, and especially the era that surrounds the emergence and popularity of ranch, as I came from the baby boomer period.

Neighborhood Lifecycles

I wonder how many of us here in northwest Florida, specifically, Tallahassee, have lived in the same neighborhood for many years, or at least long enough to observe the process of growth that occurs in neighborhoods. When you plant a garden, it is a rewarding experience to observe the baby plants shoot up out of the soil, pass through the state of childhood, and become a full florishing plant, with fruits, vegetables, or and flowers. A neighborhood has its growth as well.

The developer moves in,  clears the land, flattens it, puts in infraestructure, such as  the roads, utilities, water system, drainage, and lighting. Next, the homes are built, perhaps spec homes, if builder is making a quantity of homes, with several models to choose from sometimes. Or, the neighborhood may consist of custom homes, in which the buyer can pick and choose what appearance and style is wanted for the home. Next, the home is lived in, the neighborhood grows, more people populate the area, trees grow, and over time, there is wear and tear of the structures, and the newness fades into history.

One neighborhood in particular here in Tallahassee, the Weems, was a forest a few years ago. I walked and explored that wooded area in east Tallahassee, which is the direction much real estate development is moving in. I was surprised when the Weems Subdivision was developed into a community of many single family homes. The trees were cut down, and new homes built. I then noticed over a few years that the landscaping in the community was developing, and trees planted or put in, were growing. The Weems is still a young neighborhood, but it is easy to notice that it is maturing, and is now established in the hearts and minds of folks here in Tallahassee.

It is fun to reflect on how neighborhoods grow, and change over time. I am always interested in hearing and reading about peoples’ experiences living for a period of time in a community, and the observations they have.

Northwest Florida adds a new State Park

Many people from all over the world, including myself, are attracted to Florida’s many state parks. There are now 161 state parks in Florida, many of them in northwest Florida. The parks offer natural Florida ecosystems, campgrounds, well maintained bathroom/shower facilities, hiking trails through the forests, fishing, swimming, boating, canoeing and much more. I grew up learning a lot about nature in these parks.

Florida’s newest state park, St Marks River State Park, is just 20 miles from Tallahassee, the state capital and home to Florida State University, where I worked on my graduate program.

St Marks State Park is so new no infrastructure has been created for the park. Currently, the historical and archeological resources are being studied and planning is being developed regarding where to put roads, restroom and picniking facilities, and whatever else will be available to the public. The park does have hiking trails that can be used now. There are old dirt roads through the park from the historical days. The forest products industry was an important industry through much of northwest Florida’s history. Today there are still vast forest lands all over Northwest Florida, but new real estate developments are anchoring in many places in the region.

Northwest Florida is a healthy, good place to live in. Nature is abundant here.

Kenneth Fach, REALTOR ePRO
Weichert, REALTORS-Anchor
1607 Village Square Boulevard, Suite B 103
Tallahassee, FL 32309
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Get Free Acorns With Your Home

The acorns are on the ground now all over, here in northwest Florida, a sign that autumn is here. I like walking in the parks, and in neighborhoods, stepping on many acorns and hearing the crunchy sounds this creates. However, there is more to acorns than just the announcement of a change in seasons.

Squirrels eat acorns. The native Americans ate acorns. This member of the nut family is nutricious, and abundant. There are tons of acorns everywhere, enough to feed a lot of people. So what do you do with acorns? They are on the ground waiting for harvesting hands, and they are free.

When I was an archeology student at the University of West Florida,I had an interesting assignment during a fall semester.I had to gather wild acorns and make bread or muffins out of them. Other students had to gather or hunt other foods in the native American way. We were to have a natural harvest feast with everyone bringing what they were to bring: roots, rabbit, deer, an edible bark type, seeds, vegetables and more. So, I wandered through the vast forests surrounding the University of West Florida, and collected buckets of acorns. Fall is a very comfortable time to be outdoors anyway, after the long, hot Florida summers. I took the acorns home, boiled them in hot water to get the toxins out of them (something you must do), and I let them sit in the water, I think overnight, but I do not remember exactly. I do remember breaking the shell, and roasting the acorns in the oven. They became ready to eat, with or without salt or sugar. Delicious is how I would describe roasted acorns. I took other acorns, and before it was over with, I had tasty acorn muffins, enough to share with professor and classmates.

I only made acorn muffins once, but I would be willing to do it again. Here we have an edible, natural food, right in our own yard, and instead of eating them, we walk on them. Nature is abundance. Just look around.

Kenneth Fach, REALTOR, ePRO
Weichert, REALTORS-Anchor
1607 Village Square Boulevard, Suite B 103
Tallahassee, Florida 32309
Direct/Text 850-339-5753

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There is a Bald Eagle in These Parts

We have bald eagles around Tallahassee, Florida. They like our many forests that constitute the fabric of northwest Florida. My son and I recently saw one. Many live their entire lives and never see one.

I recently went to St Marks National Wildlife Refuge, outside of Tallahassee, Florida, with my son and his about pack. They went to pick up trash as they do each year. After picking up the trash the forest park service provided lunch for everyone. The kids got to view and touch native water species from the area’s shoreline.

Anyway, as we were picking up trash, a couple boys shouted, “Look, there is a bald eagle.” I went over and saw the most beautiful sight, a bald eagle proudly perched at the top of a tall, dead tree. It stood at a height taller than all the other trees around it. It truly is worthy of being a symbol of power, leadership, 8&2@?6, strength, courage. I was in awe looking up at that bird, which was igboring all of us.

Seeing a bald eagle is one of the benefits of living in this region. Within the city of Tallahassee, bald eagles have been spotted. There is a newer neighborhood, called Piney Z which is home to a bald eagle family, right there in a neighborhood of over 200 up scale single family homes. There is a big nature green zone, park and lake in that community. That is a very peaceful community with much natural beauty beside it.

That day at St Marks, was the second time in my life I saw a bald eagle in the wild. I will remember that experience.

Kenneth Fach, REALTOR, ePRO
Weichert, REALTORS-Anchor
1607 Village Square Boulevard, Suite B 103
Tallahassee, Florida 32309
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