Your Final Walk-Through: What to Check Before You Close on a Florida Home

What should you look for in that last hour before closing? The house is empty now, and your footsteps echo a little in the hall. You stand in the kitchen of a home in RiverTown you first saw on a screen months ago, keys not yet in your hand, and the sellers' furniture is gone. It is the last easy mo

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The Cummer Museum and Its Gardens: An Afternoon on the St. Johns River

Looking for an Afternoon That Asks Nothing of You? You come around a corner of brick and shade and the river is just there, wide and unhurried, the St. Johns carrying afternoon light past a lawn that slopes down to meet it. A live oak spreads over a bench. Somewhere behind you, the cool hush of a ga

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Have You Ever Seen Fog Settle Over a Salt Marsh at Sunrise?

What if your slowest morning of the week came with a view? The coffee is still hot and the world outside the window has gone soft. Where the marsh grass usually shows a hundred shades of gold and green, there is only a pale, quiet blur. A white egret stands in it like a pencil mark, and the dock dis

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