Sense of Place - Your Neighborhood

I took a walk with two of my three children around several blocks in my neighborhood. We live in Cape Coral, Florida. I grew up in North Fort Myers, Florida. The road that my children walk is completely different then the roads I walked on when I was little. The road is black and grey with a type of shell molded in the cement. When I was a child my road was dirt with rocks protruding up to stub your toe on.

I tried to show them that just because we live in a more city like neighborhood nature is still around us. We made a game out of how many plants we can identify in our neighbors' yards. Some of the plants included hibiscus, coconut palms, st. Augustine grass, magnolias, roses, impatients, and a man even planted lettuce and cabbage in his front yard.

One problem that we had on our walk was fighting the cars and getting out of the way of the cars so that they did not hit us. I did not experience that problem, cars were not a big issue. I am not saying that they did not exist in the 1980s, of course they did, but they did not come around the corner every 3 minutes.

We took a picture. We only had one left on the camera. What kind of flower do you think that this is a picture of?

Autumn