St. Augustine Lighthouse
If
you stand in a little parking lot across from the St. Augustine Lighthouse and
aim up through the palms, you can grab this framed view that I particularly
like. The lighthouse’s pattern and color scheme, a pop of red above the mundane
black and white, makes it particularly photogenic. Hard to imagine it’s been
standing for 144 years. Think of it . . . just six years after the end of the
Civil War, when men wore cravats and bowlers on their daily strolls and women
sashayed about in bustles, this beautiful piece of architecture came
into being.
Colonial Quarter
I
may have mentioned that Colonial Quarter is one of my favorite attractions,
easily accessed by St. George Street and well worth a visit. This view shows
the “17TH Century Spanish Fortified Town”, giving a glimpse of life
in “San Agustín” in the pirate-infested 1600s. I don’t imagine the town was a
very nice place back then . . . pirates weren’t the only worry, with storms,
floods, epidemics, British settlers from up north, and hostile Indians being
added to the list. And if you weren’t Spanish and Catholic, you might as well
move on (or perhaps run for your life if circumstances so dictated). I love
these glimpses into history. I’m sure glad I can visit from the comfort of the
21ST century, though . . . and that I won’t face a mob of angry
townsfolk when I wear my Huguenot cross :-)
(c) 2015 St. Augustine Fridays
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