This
is the tree right outside my window/door which  took a real beating
during the Wilma/Katrina hurricanes but just 2 years later returned to
its former glory. I have mixed feelings about this tree--I love looking
at it but when it sheds its leaves I see more of the canals and homes
across the way. Also I can get a surprise like the birds who visit the
tree every day.

(Can you see them in the center on the bottom limb?)

The tree has lost all its leaves this past month--and it is April not September! This is how it looks the past week.

At the same time the red trees just a few yards away are blooming for all they are worth.

And then there are the Queen Crepe Myrtles who lose their leaves whenever they want and bloom like lilac trees when they are in the mood.

I
don't understand Mother Nature but I am sure she has a plan of her
own--I am still trying to figure out how a Christmas Cactus or a Easter
Lily knows just when to bloom!

And who says Florida doesn't have seasons except snowbird/tourist season?!?!?!/

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"Solitude is as

needful to the imagination

as society is

wholesome for the character."

James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891  American Poet, Essayist and Diplomat