Positive Places, People and Their Passions

Exploring "TeaLargo" During this holiday season, over-indulgence is always justified, sort of!  We promise ourselves, "just one" or "I'll make a resolution to eat healthier" but alas.........a day, a week perhaps....soon forgotten! Tea Largo, located in a super trendy building at 4604 Cleveland Heights Blvd. in Lakeland, Fl., allows one to over indulge on "what's good for you!" Their super fruit bowls with a base of Acai or Dragonfruit, includes a  honey drizzle and granola of your choice, if needed, gluten free or paleo.  Choosing four additional toppings, your like a "kid in a candy store," yet the options are healthy and yummy!  With choices of small, medium and large, every appetite level is TCO.  My second visit to this eclectic little market, also sharing the space with Picasso Art Cafe, was super fun.  After munching on an Acai bowl filled with a sweet and salty granola, chia seeds, bee pollen and blueberrie...

Holiday Memories from the Wilderness Lodge 2011 Walking back to my office, the soft glow of the lanterns wrapped in their holiday greens, help lead the way, but the shadows and the images they create on the walls and moisture laden windows, only add to the mystique and magic of this fairy tale place. Rounding the corner, at first look nothing seems unusual or out of place but at closer observation, there must have been a wee visitor to the empty quietness of this gorgeous Lodge......all that's left is one tiny shoe, sitting alone beneath the holiday wreath, the flickering and crackling flames in the massive stone fireplace of the Lodge lobby,  only adds to the mystery of how it arrived, unnoticed.  As my mind roars to life, there are many things to ponder here!!!!  Why would one so tiny be out in the wee hours of the waning night time?  Was it a visitor from Mickey's Very Merry or is this one tiny shoe, a little blue and green Croc adorned with Mickey head...