Bok Tower - March 2012

Page 5: This Singing Tower

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"This singing tower....."

It almost escapes notice. Singing Tower. As if a colossal piece of miraculous artwork, two hundred feet tall, made of implacable stone and metal, should be expected to sing.

And then you stop, and reconsider...

Sing?

Sing!

Oh yes, it sings. And it sings beautifully.

But the carillon bells produce a sound that does not admit to being captured for reproduction, and you'll hear none of it on these pages. You must come and hear it for yourself and draw your own conclusions beneath the swaying Spanish Moss.
This singing tower..., Bok Tower, Florida.
And then there's the small matter of the sundial on the south side of the tower. A treasure, in and of itself.
The Great Sundial on the south side of Bok Tower, Florida.
Bronze gnomon, Great Sundial, Bok Tower, Florida.
Stone scribings on the Great Sundial, Bok Tower, Florida.
Base of Bok Tower, south side, showing the Great Sundial.
Bok Tower amid the oak trees and spanish moss of Central Florida.
Sundial, light, and shadow on the south side of Bok Tower, Florida.
Pink marble swans, on Bok Tower, Florida.
Pink marble flamingos, Bok Tower, Florida.
South side top of Bok Tower, Florida.
Slit window, coquina and marble, Bok Tower, Florida.