Just for reference

Sometimes I find a new image of my island that just takes my breath away. This one is from EarthBrowser, a program I've supported for a few years. It just keeps getting better: It does all sorts of geeky things, in remarkable detail, about weather, cloud movement, earthquakes, sea-surface temperatures, hurricane tracking.

The green dot is about where our house is. The big leg up north of our 2-by-4 island is Fleming Key, named for the guy who dredged it up to build a place to manage Flagler's rail cars a century ago (the Navy took it over after the collapse of the Overseas Railroad).

The first island to the right is Stock Island. The second big one, with the crisscrossed runways, is Boca Chica, home of Naval Air Station Key West. It's always fun sitting outside this time of the year, because Navy fly boys from all over the country come down here to practice their maneuvers, and you get to see them coming home, loudly, in formation.

The thread you see roughly going left from the top right is US 1. We're a short block and a half north of it, just the tiniest bit from the end of the road. Just so far, and far enough.