My Florida Backyard

In My Florida Backyard, New Year's Eve is all about the fireworks. We don't set off any ourselves, but we don't need to. Folks a...

Not to complain, but it's awfully cold here for Florida, even in late December. (Well, OK, I am complaining. But so is everyone else I t...

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year...

Do you know the story of this very old, very beautiful Provencal carol ? It tells of two little milkmaids, Jeanette and Isabella, who go to ...

Today is the Winter Solstice , and we ushered in the first official day of winter with below-average temperatures. In My Florida Backyard, i...

One of my favorite Florida native plants is Coral Honeysuckle ( Lonicera sempervirens ) . This easy-to-grow trailing vine flowers nearly yea...

There are some ways in which a caterpillar's life is very convenient. After all, from the very moment it hatches from the egg, the cater...