researching, parks, and sliding rocks?

The Disney Wilderness Preserve

This is a field research station located in Kissimmee, Florida. It is apart of an organization called 'The Nature Conservancy", which focuses on preserving the lands and waters of the animal life in which they (and we) hold so dear. The Nature Conservancy illustrates this station by stating, "This 12,000-acre preserve is an innovative model of ecological restoration and one of the largest off-site wetlands mitigation projects ever undertaken in the United States". Visitors are welcome to the Conservation Learning center and hiking trail!

F.D. Roosevelt State Park

This is one of Georgia's State Parks that is located near Warm Springs. It is where President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to try to cure his Polio. The springs did not cure him, but they made him much more aware of the poverty as well as the natural beauty of this and other rural areas within the United States. I actually go to this park with my family a great deal. We hike the trails, visit the springs, stay the weekend in the cottages, and maybe someday we can ride horses too! It is such a beautiful, calm place to see the less developed part of middle Georgia.

The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa

chinchillas! (so soft)

maps of mine

Historic Home in Fort Myers, Florida

This is a picture off of Google Earth of a historic house within my family that used to be an inn but now houses people who choose to rip my grandmother off. However, we do have the second floor to ourselves while the first stays occupied and the third remains ruined by numerous past hurricanes. I really do love our apartment with it's huge, old screened in porch and no air conditioning. Well we have those air conditioners that sit the windows in pretty much every room so we don't melt I guess. On the picture, the tiny orange octagon that turned into an oval shape is the park that my parents used to take my little sister and I to play on the playground, but now we just run or ride bikes around it. It's also where most of Fort Myers' homeless linger, but we haven't encountered any danger thus far. Then the path leads to a dock off the Caloosahatchee River where the sunsets are just stunning, and I dream of jumping in.

U.S. Unemployment Rates for 2010

This cloropleth map uses census blocks to display unemployment rates in the U.S. for 2010.

Rates of Single American Women and Men in 2007

This proportional symbol map illustrates a comparison between the number of single men and women in America in 2007. It is from a National Geographic Magazine.