Barrie Invited and I Went! By Lynda Berman

​What a great time we had in and around Ft Myers, Florida!
We sat eating lunch on the pier under this beauty’s watchful eye!
Barrie took me to the beach to pick up shells and I went twice with her daughter Alexis who walks the beach at 6:30am most mornings. We also connected with Pam Signorelli who taught Zentangle at our OAEA Summer Symposium 2021. Pam very recently bought a home nearby. I tangled around my shells.
Barrie’s daughter Tristum is in real estate and we went to Sunday afternoon open houses. Here’s Barrie looking regal in the courtyard of a 12 million dollar home.
Pam, Barrie and I spent 7 hours at the Naples Botanical Gardens. We were delighted by the early morning sighting of unexpected numbers of cranes, herons, anhingas, cormorants and much less common wood storks.. We were fascinated by the tropical splendor of orchids, plants and trees originating in Florida, Central America, the Far East. It was a glorious day! 
And did I mention the Baker Museum of Art and the Dali Museum? And the board walk through Corkscrew Sanctuary, the largest existing old growth forest (swamp) of bald cypress?  And watching the sunset from the beach with champagne and Cheetos. 
It was a restorative, educational, and totally fun time with Barrie and her family!
Lynda