Looking back at my reasons for moving to the sunny state of Florida, I must say one of the biggest reasons was warmth. I am not a cold weather person. Yes, snow and ice can be beautiful, but it is the damp, bone chilling New England weather, we no longer wished to experience. Today as I look around the yard, Mr. Bill's beautiful flowers are all in bloom. I have just come from the Walmart winter wonderland, filled to the brim with exciting new products and plants for the holidays. Poinsettias are only three dollars, but the impending cold forecasted for this week, makes me think twice.
I just finished cleaning the porch, decorating the table for the holidays, but thirty degree forecast for the next three to four nights mean....petunia, impatiens, geraniums, and tender tropicals will be crowding the porch and covering the table tops and shelves. Any available spaces will soon house Mr. Bill's flowers. It also means, spiders and ants, get out the bug spray!!!!! Take out the bin of old material and sheets, time to cover the immovable ones...Mr. Bill grumbling at the thought.
We have had a frost every year we have been here, just that last year the entire winter was one big frost. On the flip-side...last weeks' cooler morning temps has allowed the late maples to start showing their colors. The reds fitting in with the season! Hopefully, the covering of the flowers, will allow the floral garden to remain in bloom through the New Year. Just like the Flowers of Fred's News, Mr. Bill, spends many hours preening and pruning "his lovelies"! Neighbors ask, "what is the secret to your success with these flowers and plants?" Mr. Bill, totally devoted to his flowers...."they are a living thing and need to be feed, watered, loved, touched and talked too, just as we humans thrive with the same TLC." Okay but I stop at the talking thing....who would of thought, "No I am not talking to the flowers!" I see some of the old farts out here talking as if there were someone right along side them...no they do not have beautiful flowers, I think they carry on with themselves.....so, I stop at the talking thing. Wonder what Mr. Bill is getting at when he tells me this crap? Hmm...interesting.
As I drove home last night or should I say this morning, arriving at 3:00am., just for the record I did not drive with the window opened, radio blaring, and soaking up the serenity of the late night sky...Instead, windows closed, heat on, soft Christmas music drifting through the airwaves. The warmth of heater, the coziness of the closed windows, the peacefulness and beauty of the stars shining in the almost winter sky....a slice of heaven after the crush of the crowds!!!! Life is good, even with the Egg-Nazi's "bump in the road", our friend Ward says..."even with one upsetting season...there is beauty in ever season!"
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