Florida Vacation Photos: Part Six

This is the 6th of a series of photos I took in Florida in December.

If you haven't seen the other five parts, just drop down from this blogpost and have fun!

One of the things I was waiting for was to see some Christmas decorations in Florida.

Most of my life, I have always been where there is snow for Christmas.

I was surprised that many of the homes did NOT have decorations up.

But I did see this:

I loved the large sized ornaments on it.

Here is closeup of it:

We took some neighborhood walks away from the main drive by the ocean and were delighted with the pretty flowers we saw:

I loved the swirly growth of this plant:

And the different palm trees really led to some fun black and white versions of them.

I loved this one because the leaves had such a feathery pattern to them:

So many wonderful colors of flowers in the yards:

And, if one got lonesome for pine-like plants, they had some of those too.

I loved these with the little green "pearls"..it was like a teeny Christmas tree with its own green ornaments hanging from it!:

And
I saw HIM:

Just hanging out.

I love that about Florida birds.

So exotic, yet they are everywhere...parking lots, yards, trees....

I would go crazy if I lived here year round, snapping them all!

Wonderful red and green colors for Christmas:

Oooooo....
and purple and red!:

And this strange prickley root

with a bug on it:

Looks like the bug

wasn't having such a merry Christmas.

Yikes!

Hope you liked the flower pictures this time of year.

Seeing flowers when all you have is white outside is uplifting

and

a reminder of what spring will bring us Northerners....