Spring in Florida

The spring weather has come to Florida with little possibility of any more cool weather. The trees are in flower and the crops from here are being sold at the market. Strawberries are great this year as there was no frost or bad weather. Our yard wintered well with the good care of our neighbors.

While the temperatures are above eighty every day the evenings and night  are about sixty. This makes for comfortable living. The boys of summer (baseball players) have returned and the two teams who train here are drawing people by the thousands. The community here built a new training stadium for the Boston Red Sox at a cost of $84,000,000. The official opening was this week and the whole project came in on time, on budget and appears better than expected. It was built exactly like Fenway Park except the capacity is only 11,000. It will be filled for all 16 games.

There is a general feeling of optimism here in the south west as the economy is getting better and signs of activity are evident.  This spring comes none too late as we have had five years of record downturns in the tourist based economy.

There are birds a plenty here in our neighborhood and our own Mocking Birds are once more building a nest in one of our trees. They have such a great selection of sounds it is no wonder it is the Florida State Bird. I have no sightings of our two families of eagles as yet.but hope to be surprised in the near future.