settling in

so after the initial twilight zone experience, "uh, is this really my new home/dorm?" i'm really diggin' on my new place. it's nothing fancy, or heck, even modern for that matter, but it'll do. i didn't have to pay for furniture (just a bed) and i have vaulted ceilings with beautiful views of green, what more is there? it's also lovely quiet, which is priceless.....

i'm discovering new bugs. or old bugs, depending upon how you look at it. some huge thing, that actually can fly, was dead outside my door the other day. a new species to me. i posted on facebook and found out from a friend, it was actually a cicada. or those bugs in the desert (that i've been listening to for years!) that make that crazy constant buzz sound. if you don't know what i'm talking about, you get used to the sound, so it's easy to tune out. and now i know what i'm hearing. i wonder what other freak creatures i've heard but not known?!

my neighbors are mostly chinese, i met the girl next door, the day before she was leaving. she's also chinese and told me that that's why she's leaving. "too chinese village here for me" was her comment. i smiled. i wonder where she ended up. i have yet to meet anyone else, we just smile at each other and go about our business.

anne took me down to st. marks today....it's a place down by the gulf. so that was my first time really getting out. it was lovely to feel the area around here. it's odd when you can only see the trees around, because everything is so flat. the trees and greenery is as bright and ancient looking as it could be, so i never tire of looking around and feeling/seeing it. but i do miss them mountains! many of these old twisty trees are right out of novels and movies...that look like they have lots of stories to tell...the kind with the hanging brown thread that looks like it's been there forever, living with the branches....anne says this is full of chiggers. uh, that's good to know. her brother apparently thought it would be funny to wear it one day he was visiting. and it was funny, only then he got chiggers. not so funny. -note to self, no costuming from the chigger plants...

p.s. and the gulf? greenery up to the water, with a lovely lighthouse built in the mid 1800's. and used during the civil war. lot's of beautiful orange with ornate patterns butterflies. there are crocs in all the swampies leading up to it, but they must have been hiding out/keeping cool under the water. no beach to speak of. just rocks everywhere and the water was a grayish non-inviting color. the beaches are about 2 hours away. i can't wait!