Oh, last year-in-review introspective. These are just some of the images I’ve shot (and assembled) over the course of 2023.
It’s all sooo GNV!
The year started with an official swearing in ceremony at City Hall. Lots of officials…plus the usual gang of hangers-on and hecklers.
The Grove Street Farmer’s Market is my favorite place to be on Mondays. Well done Mo!
The view from the lobby of the new downtown Hyatt.
Hiking in the Sweetwater Preserve is a real pleasure. Plus they’ve got a lot of signs to read in case you get bored with nature and stuff.
One of my favorite stories in 2023. These two young UF aerospace engineering grads landed a US Space Force contract and were working out of a machine shop in Alachua to build tiny satellites that can clean up space debris. Plus one of ‘em has a really cool car.
Dragons, moon men and bicycles oh my!
Dancing up a storm at Bo Diddley Plaza.
The Iguana borrowed one of my graphics about DeSantis and Co. hijacking GNV’s municipal utility.
It’s all happening at Depot Park.
I was out of town during the entire month of May riding my bicycle from D.C. to the Mississippi River. So here’s a statue of Chuck Berry in his hometown and a photo of St. Louis reflecting on itself
At the Theater of Memory they had a classical quartet playing inside and a bagpiper out back. Sadly, nobody could play my request for In-A-Gada-Da-Vita!
The 4th Avenue Food Park. It’s sooo GNV!
It’s always happening at The Social. Plus The Swamp finally reopened.
Tom Petty’s Among The Wildflowers exhibit at the Cade was stunning.
One of the year’s best exhibits at The Harn was about images of Black beauty.
I had the privilege of covering the 50 year reunion of the Gainesville Eight defendants.
Another superb Harn exhibit was a retrospective of the late, great UF photographer Jerry Uelsmann.
September I went to Yellowstone. Hot stuff there.
In which The Great DeSanitizer, Chuckles and Keith get the last laugh on GNV.
Had a great visit with Cornelia Holbrook for a yet-to-be-published feature about her Sweetwater Inn’s growing inventory of historic homes and cottages in the B&B District.
Pigs will fly and Mo is making veggie burgers. How GNV is that?
What is so lovely as a day in June? Pretty much every day on Lake Alice.
If you don’t feel free in Depot Park you’re not paying attention.
In which I journeyed to Cedar Key to learn how GNV playwright Michael Presley Bobbitt has reinvented himself as a clam farmer/novelist.
I loved this town in 2023. Do not expect that to change in 2024
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