Pets Often Included in the Big Day! Weddings, special occasions feature dogs or other animals

Pets are considered part of the family—and that role is increasingly extended to being part of special occasions. As Dara Dunbar notes, “We do get requests for pets in wedding pictures.” She and her husband, Brendan, own Bohemian Road Photography, a wedding photography service that is based in Fort Myers and serves all of Southwest Florida. Read More »

Sundays Made Brighter - Cape Art League opens its doors to students

The Cape Coral Art League (CCAL) offers a chance for children ages 6 to 13 to do something creative on Sunday afternoons from October through July. This popular session, “Teaching Young People Art,” is back again this year with new teachers and new lessons changing every month. Read More »

Therapy Through Creativity

Art therapy is a creative way to help individuals view things differently, gain insights and discover solutions... Read More »

Ecological Importance of Tree Cavities

The creation of tree cavities begins with the red-cockaded woodpecker. This is the only woodpecker in North America that excavates its roosting and nesting cavities in live mature pine trees. Read More »

Ancient Art in Southwest Florida - The Calusa left an impressive body of artwork

In the spring of 1895 on Key Marco Island, J.D. Collier was digging in his garden and unearthed some wooden objects, shell tools and fiber that appeared to be ancient in origin. This began an exploration over the next year that still amazes archaeologists and people from all over the world... Read More »

Recipes We Love - See What’s Cooking in SWFL (September/October 2020)

Delicious recipes (a cocktail, roasted chicken breasts, and lobster pot pie...oh my!) from a variety of distinguished restaurants in the SWFL area. Read More »

Casa Ybel Resort - Tying the knot in style, delivering the perfect wedding venue

Weddings are all about love, and the staff at Casa Ybel Resort knows plenty about love and weddings―couples have been saying “I do” at this romantic Gulf-shore setting for more than a century. Read More »

Discovering the late Paul Badura-Skoda: Extraordinary artist—on modern and period instruments

When I was studying piano performance in graduate school, I had the good fortune to work with a wonderful pianist and teacher named Seth Carlin. Next to the obligatory Steinway behemoth in his studio, Seth kept something special, more diminutive and delicate-sounding: a beautifully made replica of an 1820s Graf fortepiano. Read More »

A Hidden Gem You’ve Missed - Gulfport is St. Pete’s secret

Somewhere between the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and Tropicana Field, there’s a small but cool waterfront community that not only isn’t on the Gulf of Mexico, but it’s never even made most Floridians’ radar. Put it on yours. Read More »

SWFL Journal (September/October 2020)

A journal from the perspective of Southwest Florida. Read More »