We've needed more rain for the past three years, but the colors are still turning out ok.
It's hard to believe the amount of new growth, budding flora, and vibrant tapestry that Florida has year-round. According to the texts of some of the earliest Europeans here in the 16th century, the first thing you notice when coming off the ocean after weeks of nothingness are the rich flowers and vegetation as you sail your caravel or nau up one of these rivers. The Spanish were the first European power to lay claim to this peninsula, and the name Florida ("flower") stuck from a time before the first colony in North America had even been established.
It's hard to believe the amount of new growth, budding flora, and vibrant tapestry that Florida has year-round. According to the texts of some of the earliest Europeans here in the 16th century, the first thing you notice when coming off the ocean after weeks of nothingness are the rich flowers and vegetation as you sail your caravel or nau up one of these rivers. The Spanish were the first European power to lay claim to this peninsula, and the name Florida ("flower") stuck from a time before the first colony in North America had even been established.
The one above is a Hibiscus. To see these blossoms in December-March still leaves me slightly disoriented, having been raised in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, along the 37th parallel. There is snow and freezing temperatures where my mind's eye is tuned, but these are the only images I survey at this time of year. I took these all today:
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