February 24, 2005

  • SPRINGTIME IN NORTH FLORIDA
    The end of February might seem a little early for Spring to all you Yankee types, but here in Tallahoopie we have been inundated with Camellias and are now looking at Azaleas and Crepe Myrtle buds. The birds certainly think Spring's here - they make quite a racket.
    Spring is a time when people seem to begin coming out of their shells and brightening up, at least most of them do. We begin thinking about our yearly trek to the North Woods (even the mosquitoes are better than a Florida Summer). We have neither children or pets so can travel more or less at our leisure. We really have found that watching the local wildlife is worth the time. It is a temptation to interfere with their lives sometimes, but we try to limit interference to occasional feeding. I used to hunt but gave it up years ago and now just use a camera. I did have to shoot a rabid raccoon a few years ago but have patiently endured attempts by a Piliated Woodpecker to eat our house, a skunk living under the front porch, and deer who were convinced our shrubs were planted for their dessert. Here in Florida we live in a brick house and have a six-foot corn snake living under the deck. He keeps the mouse and rat population down so we don't complain. Our resident Possum sometimes gets confused about where he is but possums are like that and he eventually finds his way off the deck or out of the garage. We live a block from the lake here so we don't have to put up with many Canada Geese -surely the dirtiest birds around.

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