The summer heat wave finally broke after Hurricane Milton blew through Orlando Florida. Outdoor tent sale events proliferate as the weather cools in Central Florida.
This is a pre-pandemic sketch is of the Leu Gardens Plant Sale. I like trying to save plants from lawn jockeys whose whole purpose in life is to mow. blow and murder all plant life. If a plants die their job of riding a mower gets a whole lot easier. Each morning I go for a several mile long hike and gather fist fulls of ground cover that was edged poorly and is left growing partially over sidewalks. I then plant that fist full in the vast dead expanse of a yard. To me, grass is the enemy. It requires too much fertilizer, which runs off into the lake causing algae blooms. I prefer low lying ground covers that never grow high enough to need to be mowed down.
I am sill gathering sticks and twigs from the yard which will be used when it gets cooler to start fires in the fireplace and outdoor fire pit. For two days the neighborhood was magnificently silent. The Orlando Airport had been shut down so the deafening jet engines of planes about to land were no longer heard. The airport opened back up today and at the same time every home owner seemed to feel the need to fire up leaf blowers. They would blow their leaves into their neighbors yards and into the street. Whoever thought it was wise to strap a loud petrol engine to their back should be exiled. What ever happened to the good old fashioned rake?