![]() ![]() Most entries in fact have nothing to do with the season under which they are subsumed. Having survived fifty-six South Florida summers without ever getting used to the heat before retiring to North Carolina, I can agree with his choice.Īctually, the grouping of columns by season is a bit of a gimmick. Having survived our harshest season we felt renewed" (p. "Fall in Real Florida is like spring in the North. The book is arranged by season, beginning with fall, which he stresses is not the same thing as the autumn of northern states. ![]() We have dormant alligators or active alligators, mosquitoes or no mosquitoes" (p. We have wildlife migrations and our own seasonal foods. "In Real Florida," he says, "we have real seasons, even if we don't have colorful leaves and hot apple cider sold at roadside stands. Petersburg Times, makes the point that Florida has seasons, but that you must get away from the concrete of the city into the "real Florida," which he defines as "a culture shaped by the history, folkways, landscape, animals and weather of our state" (p. ![]() Klinkenberg, a feature writer for the St. That's not true, as I learned when I realized the "pine tree" in my back yard, the one I feared was dying each winter, was in fact a cypress, one of South Florida's few deciduous trees. McGoun (Independent Scholar)Ī co-worker once told me the only way you can tell when it's autumn in Florida is when the colors change on the license plates. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. ![]()
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