What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike
"Royal Palm Manatees" painted by Scott "Scooter" Thompson. My first home was a boat. My birth father was a frustrated fisherman who worked for the phone company during the day but fished every other waking breathing moment of his life. We lived on a small charter boat that he finagled a slip for at a small city-owned marina in Clearwater back in 1958. I learned to swim before I could walk. For reasons beyond my control I have always had an affinity for the smell of diesel fuel, bait buckets, & men that...shall we say.. have potential. Between Jesus & Dr. Phil I pretty much have all those issues under control except I just can't pass by a marina full of boats without stopping and taking a look around. Imagine my delight at stumbling upon this little treasure right in my own backyard. I was told by an Englewood resident that the restaurant Zeke's had the best hamburgers in town. You just have to find the darn place. Zeke's is located