Seize the day

By SHARON KENNEDY WYNNE

© St. Petersburg Times, published July 9, 2000

Things to do

They won't believe you did this stuff for fun, so get the kids out of the arcade and try to persuade them you used to occupy yourself with horseshoes, jacks, jump rope and stick ball at the Kid City Olde-Fashioned Ice Cream Social from 1 to 4 p.m. today in Tampa. Admission is $4. Kid City is at 7550 North Blvd. Call (813) 915-0063.

Guided tours and nature talks are the highlights from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at Sunken Gardens, 1825 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. Tours depart from the entrance at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Or join any of three available nature discussions: exotic birds at 11:30 a.m.; reptiles at 1 p.m.; or come face to face with a possum, an evening bat, a red-shouldered hawk, a barn owl, a kestrel and crows with Penny Boehme, licensed Florida wildlife rehabilitator, at 2:30 p.m. All talk in the Oak Pavilion of the Gardens. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $1 children ages 3-11, free for children 2 and younger. Call (727) 551-3100.

Performance artist Nan Colton presents "Aphrodite -- The Art of Love, the Love of Art" at 3 p.m. at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts. Colton, the museum's performing artist-in-residence, plays a Greek muse who looks at how artists have portrayed love through the ages. The museum, 255 Beach Drive NE, is free on Sundays. (727) 896-2667.

Music with Mar, a concert for toddlers, will be at Border's Book Store at Tyrone Mall in St. Petersburg at 4 p.m.

Things to view

Michael Gambon and Jeremy Irons star in Longitude on A&E, a new made-for-cable movie about the long-forgotten inventor of the "sea clock," which saved countless lives by making safer navigation possible. 8 p.m.

A live-action version of the classic tale The Adventures of Pinocchio airs on ABC. Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Martin Landau and Bebe Neuwirth. 7 p.m.

-- Compiled by Times staff writer Sharon Kennedy Wynne. For a complete roundup check http://www.tampabay.com.