On the boardwalk

An early evening scene on the boardwalk at Lake Sumter Landing.

Entrance to the Veranda Restaurant

We've featured the Veranda Restaurant in Lake Sumter Landing on a couple of occasions...this is the entrance located on the main street coming into town from Morse Boulevard.

Main Street - Spanish Springs at night

La Reina

In Spanish Springs, this building, La Reina (The Queen) was the sales and information office where one would go if interested in purchasing a home in The Villages. The sales office has now moved to another building and La Reina is used for other purposes. There is an excellent restaurant on the ground floor.

Closing on your home in The Villages

Let's say you or your spouse are at least 55 years of age. You thus qualify to buy a home in The Villages. Let's say you've decided to move from where you now live and that you have found the perfect home, have made an offer which has been accepted, and the only thing left is finalizing the sale - or the closing. This is where that closing would take place if you bought a home in Lake Sumter Landing.

Sunset over the Fish Camp & Grill

Lake Sumter Landing often provides some magnificent sunsets, as witnessed by this array of colors over the Fish Camp & Grill.

The Purple Pig

Customers drive their golf carts to the Purple Pig in Lake Sumter Landing. It is a retail gift shot which includes some Red Hat and golf items.

Lamp & Hibiscus

Law Office in Lake Sumter Landing

You'll find this law office and many other service-oriented businesses along the main street leading into Lake Sumter Landing.

Evening falls on Lake Sumter

Stoned fence

On the eastern side of Lake Sumter Landing's town square, the road winds off to the right fronting a series of shops, including one huge furniture store that takes up about three city blocks.

This fence, across from the lake and the boardwalk, caught my eye. It is very attractive I think. The stone work makes it.

Happy Hour at the square

Both the Spanish Springs and Lake Sumter Landing hometowns provide outdoor bars for residents who gather in the evenings to listen to music and dance in the town squares. These bars are very busy during "Happy Hour" which usually consists of several hours during which time two drinks can be purchased for the price of one.

This particular bar is located at the Lake Sumter Landing town square.

Cozco Handcrafts - Spanish Springs

If you wish to divest yourself of some hard-earned cash in return for handcrafted items, some supposedly from Peru, enter here. The Villages offers a variety of shopping experiences.

Sharp-eyed observers will note we posted a photo of the top of this building a couple of weeks ago. We thought it appropriate to also show a picture of the bottom. Every decent building should have a bottom as well as a top.

Skylights

Skylights on a balmy evening at Lake Sumter Landing, The Villages, Florida.

Boat at anchor on Lake Sumter

This boat, like so many other things in The Villages, is to look at, not use. It is across the lake, on the far side of Lake Sumter, but a long lens has compressed the distance intimating that it's near at hand.

I think it's a nice-looking vessel, even if it isn't "real."