A Brit in the US

Some weeks ago, I visited the town of Celebration in Florida. It's quite a nice and very Disney village. In fact, it's extremely quiet and I believe its first major crime ever was a murder a few months before I visited. I stayed in an hotel called oddly enough, the Celebration Hotel. This was situated on the bank of a large artificial lake It was a huge lake to walk around. It also had alligators swimming around. There were plenty signs about not feeding alligators. All around the lake was a pretty good wildlife habitat. The bird below was having a great time with its brothers and sisters, chirping away and presumably resting or waiting for prey. Marsh bird in Celebration, Florida Not to be outdone, the local flora was quite interesting too. Ignoring the Spanish Moss which seems to grow just about everywhere, there was this gorgeous flower. Oddly enough, this was right beside the hotel, just growing in a flowerbed. I suspect it had been planted on purpose but the ve