A couple years ago, when I still considered myself new to Florida, I noticed something quite fascinating happening out my window while I was decorating my Christmas tree.
It looked like we were having a snow flurry.
Was this a Christmas miracle? But we were in shorts, the sliding door was open, it was balmy as usual, how could this be?
And then I looked more closely and realized the “flurries” were something else, something from a local plant, flying through the air. But that was ok. Because if I didn’t look right at it while I focused on tree decorating, I could kind of sort of pretend it was a flurry outside. And the music playing in the background seemed to make just a little more sense. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
We’ll take what we can get, flurries with our shorts on.
I decided to tape these flurries this year. Enjoy Florida’s version of a “White Christmas”.
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Don’t forget the “flurries” that can are more commonly called MOSQUITOS!! :)
Heh! Yeah, we only get a white Christmas if you go to the beach. My kids have only seen snow once, poor little deprived children.
We get blowing dry leaves in North Carolina. We joke that it’s snowing leaves. At least your version is white.
Yes, and that wasn’t a “Palmetto Bug” (aka Roach), it was a runaway reindeer!
When you said it was from a local “plant”, I was thinking industrial plant…like it was some sort of ash or soot or other pollutant from a factory!! LOL I was wondering why you seemed to be okay with it. Glad to know it’s just a tree. Let it snow!!
You can answer me off line, but where are you in Tampa? That looks exactly like where I grew up.
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