Hope Continually -- Psalm 71:14

Goodbye, July!  July was an interesting month.   Autumn was gone for most of the month on her trip to Portland, OR, and Hungary.  My husband was traveling much of the month for work.  Sierra and Summer both went to summer camp. We took mini adventures locally together.  And hope to take many more. July always includes preparing for our next school year to start.   And July is always so hot.  Whew!  It is a new level of hot with the humidity here in Florida.  I am grateful for a fantastic pool to enjoy! I hope August is an even better month all around!

This is Fort Clinch located in Fort Clinch State Park which is 1,400 acres.  This is its history... The entrance to the Cumberland Sound and the St Mary’s River has been of vital importance to the people of Florida for close to 300 years. The first fortifications on the site began in 1736, but it wasn’t until almost a century later that Fort Clinch, as we know it today, began to take shape. Following the widespread destruction of the War of 1812, the desire to protect the country from other nations in times of conflict grew. The Third System Fortifications entailed a series of forts built along the coastline of the United States to defend against foreign invaders. Construction of Fort Clinch began in 1847, with visions of a triumph of masonry and stone built mostly by civilians and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect the coast of southern Georgia. However, by the outbreak of hostilities at the start of the Civil War, only about two-thirds of the fort had been completed...