File #44267: "Frank McMillan 1929-1930 Diary 26.pdf"

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its house faced on a lake of course. the grounds was very nice with Palm trees & a few flowers the rest was a drive around the ground. through palm trees. live oaks etc most of them covered with moss. went on through Winter Park & turned off the highway to Longwood and about 1 1/2 miles farther saw a big tree. a cypress. it is over 50 feet around the trunk. & must be 150 feet high came home Altamonte. Dec 13th. Drove a few blocks around and up Colonial Drive saw a few more lakes and ended up at Lake Dot only a few blocks from our house. they have a few wild ducks & three swans saw a man fishing for bass he did not catch any. said he caught two the night before. Dec 14th. Went to the Chamber of Commerce picnic to Rock Springs about 20 miles went through Apopka there was a big crowd they supplied free coffee & Barbecue, there was a large spring there it made a stream 8 or 10 feet wide in places one place you could see the fish the water was as clear as crystal.
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