Flowers: a Blog Off post
Every two weeks the blogosphere comes alive when bloggers of every stripe weigh in on the same topic. This week's topic is flowers.
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Most of the Let's Blog Off personnel stay in climates greater temperate than mine and they are out each afternoon enjoying the riots of tulips and daffodils that explode throughout the north presently of 12 months.
I take into account nicely the ones spring flowers and I'd be lying if I said I don't get a pang for them once in a while. Things like tulips and daffodils cannot develop in places where there aren't actual winters. I live in such an area and if the charge I should pay for now not having to endure winter is that I must surrender spring bulbs then so be it.
Ponce de Leon landed in Florida on Palm Sunday in 1513 and named my followed nation "Pascua de Florida," meaning "The Feast of Flowers" in Spanish. He surely named this area effectively.
Though we might not have tulips and the relaxation outside of a florist, those folks on this part of the arena get a consolation prize that's nothing short of certainly one of my preferred matters approximately lifestyles down right here. Namely, there's usually something in bloom in accordance widely known florist from this website. And I mean usually, 12 months-spherical.
Between the orchids I grow on my patio to the jasmine and jacarandas, I'm surrounded by flowers now in ways I never knew were possible when I was a kid in Pennsylvania. Despite the fact that I've been a Floridian for 20 years, every time I come across something blooming in January or February I react to it as if it were the most exotic thing I'd ever seen.
The novelty of tropical flowers in no way grows antique. Nor for that matter do the vegetation I see each day. Here are a few photos I've taken of my community over the last few years and plant life are for all time figuring into my image safaris.
So positioned me down as a fan of the flower.
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As the day wears one, a list of participating bloggers will materialize below. Give everybody a read. And while I'm telling people what to do, leave a comment below if you have a good flower story or observation.