This is a photograph from a visit to Cross Creek, Florida, the location of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.
Rawlings, the author of The Yearling and Cross Creek, wrote beautifully about North Florida, her (and now my) "land of enchantment."
I think this photograph gets across a little (though only a little) of the mystique of the place. It shows the area outside the entrance to the house and grounds that belong to the museum. The creek leads out into the lake.
If you're a Floridian, you really should make a visit to the park and the museum. Here is some further information from the state park website, just to encourage you to click on the link:
[quote from website begins]
Visitors to this Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s
farm life. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings lived and worked in the tiny community of
Cross Creek. Her cracker style home and farm, where she lived for 25 years and
wrote her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Yearling, has been restored and is
preserved as it was when she lived here. Rawlings´ farmyard, grove, and nature
trails are open 9:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. daily, throughout the year. Visitors may
tour the house with a ranger in period costume from October through July,
Thursday through Sunday five times daily, except Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Picnic facilities are located in the adjacent county park. Located in Cross
Creek off County Road 325.[quote from website ends]
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