I had a moment last month when we got a call about someone passed out at Villa Mill Lane. My colleague who took the call said out loud: "Villa Mill Lane..?"
Which was my opportunity to pipe up and explain it was off United Street...and thus I looked good once again to my incredulous co-worker. Ha, little did Noel know my wife used to have a job in the building shown in the photo above. Then they moved the Department of Juvenile Justice to Stock Island and she had to move out. But I remembered where Villa Mill Lane was.
There really is no reason to know why this lane exists unless one happened to live or work there. It has little of special significance, and even the architecture isn't much. I guess I just needed a break from impossibly cute lanes in the pretty parts of town. It's not that Villa Mill is ugly or anything, there is lots of greenery and stuff:
And this, though what this is exactly I'm not too sure. It looks like a brightly colored fish made out of cloth, serving an indefinable purpose:
The entrance to the lane is marked by these poles bright scarlet and very visible:
And there are pretty enough homes of course, some scarred by the intrusion of modern technology:
And then there was the cat, imperiously licking itself clean in a public place:
And that was
that for Villa Mill. It wasn't even sunny, so you can see even the Keys have the capacity to suffer from nasty winter weather..
I had a moment last month when we got a call about someone passed out at Villa Mill Lane. My colleague who took the call said out loud: "Villa Mill Lane..?" Which was my opportunity to pipe up and explain it was off United Street...and thus I looked good once again to my incredulous co-worker. Ha, little did Noel know my wife used to have a job in the building shown in the photo above. Then they moved the Department of Juvenile Justice to Stock Island and she had to move out. But I remembered where Villa Mill Lane was.
3 comments:
Living the Villa Mill Loca....
For a moment there I thought you were crazy... I wnet to Dagny Johnson Park today by the way...
The jury is still out on the crazy part I am told (I subscribe to Douglas Adams theory of going crazy, instead of spending time worrying about going crazy, just get it over with and you will get on the road to recovery faster).
:-)
What did you think of the park? Was it as big as I remembered?
Does it look like something re-purposed from a 1950s-1960s tourist attraction?
Or did I imagine that (see crazy comment above).
One other thing, I never got a straight answer on this, if I recall correctly, it a FL state "pay park" for the walk-ins, using the honor system. I always have the quandary about this, since I have a yearly family pass. I usually end up paying again, just b/c I believe in the cause of state parks. My question is, do I have too legally?
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