Fountain

At an outlet shopping mall. 

Climbing Wall

 

A good way for kids to entertain themselves for an hour or so.

Honor Flight

 

Soldiers from the Korean, Vietnam and more recent wars were lined up at Southwest Regional Airport in Fort Myers for their Honor Flights to Washington, D.C., and Arlington National Cemetery.

Sally

 Sally is captain of our bocce team.  We are terrible, but no one cares.  It is a good excuse to get together with friends.

Sally is a Brit who lives in Manhattan and Naples.  She was the chief operating officer of corporate legal departments and law firms, including GE, TimeWarner, Verizon, Akin Gump and Clifford Chance.  Her husband and she will be taking a three week trip around Japan pretty soon.

Jason

I was in Fort Myers recently, where I saw a man painting a very big mural on the side of a building.

The artist was surprisingly reluctant to talk about himself or even to tell me his name.

Eventually, Jason told me that this is the first mural he has tried to paint.  He works in construction and wasn't sure his first mural was going to be high enough quality.  Jason, it looks good to me.

Linked to Monday Murals.

Church

 

Naples United Church of Christ.

Croquet

A Saturday morning croquet match.

 

Joelle is Belgian.  Her husband worked internationally in insurance, spending time in New York, London, Paris and Brussels.  Rob and Joelle met in Brussels.  They now live full-time in Naples and have two adult children who also live in Naples.

Christine has her Masters in German and has worked as a magazine editor, an interpreter, a translator and a teacher.  Her husband and she have an osprey nest visible from their back yard.  They let me enter the yard in search of osprey photographs.

Morgen is from Indianapolis.  She worked for years in merchandising furniture and home furnishings.  Morgen is a talented artist and sculptor.