Aldermans Ford County Park
Up north, keeping the Holiday season involves bringing a little life into our homes to counter the drab blahs of winter. Holly sprigs, pine boughs, and poinsettias fill the home with greens and reds while outside bare, black branches scrape at the gray skies.
In subtropical Florida these traditions are unnecessary–we need not huddle indoors under tacked up bits of evergreen. For our first Christmas in the Sunshine State, we would be exchanging the cold and bleak December for the balmy, lush jungle. To inaugurate our arrival, a warm winter hike under tiny-leaved oaks, around spiky palmettos, and through waving ferns was in order.
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