Spring in Ohio

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Having lived in "paradise."

[redbaydreamer]

I do have a different view, but I am sure after winter upon winter escaping might appeal more. When I lived in Florida I really missed spring and fall the most. You think that you live in a lush place, but you really don't. Yeah the yard does not go brown and look dead in winter, but the trees are not as full or as green and the leaves sort of disappear overnight, so changing of colors just doesn't really happen. And in spring there are not the wonderful pops of color. There is the yellow of the golden rain trees and the lilacs, but no daffodils, no tulip, no hints of what is to come. Azalea's are lovely and so are the hibiscus, but most of the color that you see if forced northern plants that seem to disappear in the dark of night an are replaced by something else. Every once in a while we would stumble on a yard or a park where the people planned lovely local plants that were supposed to be there, but so much of what is accepted as "lovely" in Florida and other parts of the south is transplanted northern stuff that takes a