In March 2019, Jim and I headed to Florida to take in some spring training baseball games. Since we were going to be in the area, I added a stop at De Soto National Memorial (very close to the Pirates home field in Bradenton). I didn't know what to expect--De Soto was not prominently featured in my elementary school days, so we took time to explore. It really is a sad story. Though he is credited with a great deal of exploration and discovery, he is among many Spanish "conquerors" who tried to eliminate the native cultures of the area. The park is fairly small. It is the trailhead of the De Soto Trail which covers the first year of his travels and ranges along the western coast of Florida. There is a place for living history events but we were a little early in the season to view those. In their place, they have life-sized poster cutouts of the inhabitants. You'll see more of that next week.
I based this layout on a sketch from Even More Scrapping. CM has a collection called Tropic Time that was a perfect match for this area. One of the coordinating colors is dark green, so I chose the background cardstock in that shade and then layered a touch of gold along the edges. The leaves are all die cuts in the collection. You can see that I split one of the sticker borders (sort of sunshine) to add a little more interest to the top.
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