Tulips at Publix Supermarket

 

I’ve been driving around and enjoying scenes here in my home of Lakeland, Florida. The days are mostly beautiful with blue skies.

 

 

Of course, I love to visit the flower department at my local Publix Supermarket. Some things never change no matter where I am in Florida. Floridians love the seasonal flowers that grow up north.  Spring flowers, like tulips, are very popular.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the visit. I’m wishing you blue skies and tulips wherever you are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Camellias In Bloom In Our Central Florida Garden

 

 Camellias are popular, long-lived, evergreen shrubs (or small trees) renowned for their glossy foliage and stunning, rose-like blooms that appear from fall to spring. As staples of Southern gardens, they bloom in white, pink, and red, thriving in acidic, well-draining soil and partial shade in zones 6-10. 

 

If you visited me before on my old blog, you probably know how much I love flowers.  I've updated my header with a floral graphic similar to part of my old blog's header. What do you think?

Here in central Florida, we are in zone 9B which is semi-tropical.  Our two camellia bushes get buds in December and bloom late January, February, and into March. I look forward to the short time of flowers in winter. The freezes we had two weeks ago, made the buds brown and the flowers too.  Now we are back to beautiful white flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It irritated me when I lost a week of flowers, but all is well now. Hopefully, we don't get more freezes coming south.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January Morning Sky

 

 

 

For the last month, as snow storms hit other areas of the country, Florida has gotten multiple cold fronts coming in from the north. You wake up to gray skies, thin gray clouds, and little sun. It looks like snow clouds to me but we’re too far south. Often the cold fronts bring us cold to the bone rain. (I know it’s not cold to northerners, but it’s cold to Floridians.) So I am always happy when the gray is blown away and blue skies return with thin wispy white clouds.

 

 

 

 The photos are from a morning when the rain stopped, and the sun came out.

 

 

 

 

Just for fun, I’m sharing a funny meme I saw on Facebook.

 

 

 

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