So what do you think happened to the top right tier of this gate? My dad would know, and I can see his face looking at it. Whatever happened here, I’m pretty sure somebody was embarrassed, and someone else was annoyed. But then again, maybe it was something funny or weird that makes everyone involved grin. Spend any time at all on a ranch and you learn to notice where the stories are. I was looking for them while traveling Highway 70 across the state from Ft. Pierce on the Atlantic side to roughly around Sarasota on the Gulf side. Its stretch north of Lake Okeechobee makes it one of the prettiest highways in the state — and it is especially stunning on late winter afternoons when you need some time to think. Known as the Northern Everglades, the landscape here sustains one of America’s last great grasslands. My favorite parts of the highway are where the road travels across the Kissimmee River and then rises to the Lake Wales Ridge by way of the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation and authentic “cow towns” like Okeechobee and Arcadia.
Small: 15” x 10” – $140.00 | Medium: 30” x 20” – $170.00 | Large: 45” x 30” – $375.00