Holiday decorations are beginning to appear in north Florida’s homes, offices and businesses. The season’s adornments hang, stand, drape and protrude from every direction and cannot be missed by anyone with a modicum of visual acuity. The colors were, at some point shrouded in history, ritualized to red and green. The logic is unavoidable since…Read more
“There is gold in them thar hills,” so was the call of the ‘49’ers who were beckoned to search for the elusive, but valuable, yellow metal in California during the mid-19th century. This enticement has lured hundreds of thousands to remote and usually hostile locations the world over in pursuit of quick wealth. With the…Read more
April showers produce May flowers, as the old saying goes. That adage assumes there are April (or May) showers, but the liquid from above is never a guaranteed certainty. Some year’s the spring bloom of native plants is influenced by a dry April, a late March frost or a relatively warm winter. Fortunately, there are…Read more
