Home sweet home in 5 month?
Category: Florida
Big Cat Sanctuary
We went to the Big Cat Sanctuary and it was amazing to see all the cats, but so sad to see how many people think that owning a big cat is a good idea.
Winter Park weekend events
This weekend in Winter Park they had a chalk art event. There were some beautiful chalk drawings!
After looking at the drawings we went into the Morse Museum. The museum was much larger than we expected and had some beautiful pieces.
The photos do not do this justice, but it was designed in 1893 for the world fair in Chicago, then reinstalled in Tiffany’s chapel at his New York City studio. Later it was installed the New York’s Cathedral Church of Saint John. It eventually fell into disrepair so in 1916 Tiffany reacquired it and installed it in a small building at his Long Island estate. In 1959 it was moved to the Morse Museum.
Ribbit the exhibit II
We went to Leu Gardens today for a walk around. The garden was wonderful and Richard and I now have an annual pass!
They had Ribbit the Exhibit II at the garden- it is a traveling collection of larger than life frog sculptures by J. A. Cobb of Wilmington, NC.
Winston the Greeter Frog
Wallace and Grommet
The Watering Frog
The Thinker
Little Leapers
One of my favorites- The Lookout
Tango… the dance of love
Frog on a bicycle
The Hedge Frog
The Garden Bell
Express Yourself
Dance of the Little Swans
Pecos Straight
Melvin the Mowing Frog
The Ribbitsville Ramblers
Big Zen
Digger Smith
Henry Potter
Octoberfest
Richard was able to stop by to see me this past weekend and we went to Octoberfest at the Crooked Can Brewery in Winter Gardens.
Perhaps the funniest was this song…
Magic Kingdom
Candi and her family were down last weekend, so I met up with them and spent the weekend at Disney.
Lunch at Ulele
Today I drove down to Tampa for a business lunch and we ate at an amazing restaurant. It was in a historic building with amazing art both inside and out!
I had the stuffed portobello mushrooms and they were wonderful. Stuffed with grilled zucchini, squash, red onion, red pepper, sautéed spinach and manchego cheese topped with flash fried carrot ribbons.
I would definitely recommend it to anyone visiting!
Creme brûlée success
We finally got them out of the oven! Just need to let them get to room temperature then put them in the fridge for a few hours!
Creme brûlée
We are attempting creme brûlée this afternoon… it has been baking for about 45 minutes and I am starting to get nervous as I can’t get the internal temperature to 170. 
Fig Tart
The one thing I am loving about living in Florida are some of the fresh figs I can get at the farmers market. I am getting better making the crust, but the consistency is still off a bit. This morning with the extra crust I made some biscuits and they turned out pretty good I have to say!
The Johnsons 