This is not really about “my” world, but about a world I recently visited. I took more pictures there than I do here (at least of things I can post since I do not post pictures of my kids and their friends playing very often), and there were some very interesting things, so “My World” will be about Orlando for two or three weeks.
When I was flying into Orlando, I saw lots of water on the ground, and it was overcast. No surprise. But what did surprise me was large wooded areas with no leaves on the trees. I had no idea trees lost their leaves there.
Then later I saw a tree with orange leaves, fading from its peak of autumn glory… in JANUARY! Maybe I am the last person to know that Orlando has some form of autumn, but previously I never knew, so I thought it was interesting.
Right next to the “autumn tree” was some tree unidentifiable to me that had yellow flowers on it. It was amusing to me that one tree was in bloom, and the tree next to it was orange and losing its leaves. What a different world from mine!
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January 19, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Isn’t that amazing? Two seasons in one photo: autumn tree and spring tree, they skipped winter!
January 19, 2009 at 2:19 pm
those are nice scenes! Love the color contrasts
January 19, 2009 at 2:25 pm
These are wonderful. The aerial view is neat, but I especially like the autumn tree.
January 19, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Autumn still in Orlando? And yellow flowers in bloom? I want to be there. 😉
January 19, 2009 at 2:56 pm
How two seasons can look s different, but beautiful in both.
January 19, 2009 at 3:20 pm
How fascinating to see both the autumn leaves and the first flowers of spring. For those of us immersed in winter, it’s truly another world.
January 19, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Setting sail for Orlando NOW.
January 19, 2009 at 3:29 pm
love the shots louise and it is a huge difference from your home in new mexico.
thanks for sharing your “temporary” world with all of us.
Erin
January 19, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I’ve got one tree that just finished losing its leaves, while another is ready to bud.
January 19, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I really like the flowering tree next to the tree losing its leaves. Thanks for taking us to Orlando — don’t we live in an interesting world?
January 19, 2009 at 5:43 pm
It’s really interesting to visit other places and see how they differ from our part of the world. I don’t know what they yellow flowers are, but it’s a pretty photo.
January 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Out here in Cali, we had autumn leaves until the end of Dec, which I thought was very odd even for us. I believe that one’s world follows you wherever you go.
January 19, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Great time of year to visit Orlando! Much better than the humid summertime. Have a great time!
January 19, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Great aerial shots! Have a great time!
January 19, 2009 at 8:05 pm
They’re lovely photos. I’d never thought of the trees losing their leaves in Florida either, but thinking about it, don’t some trees go through a cycle? It’s not so much the weather as it is part of the cycle?
January 19, 2009 at 8:48 pm
It doesn’t look like it’s close to the mouse house, does it? But that’s all we think about in “Orlando”
January 19, 2009 at 8:58 pm
🙂
January 19, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I had been thinking Orlando is kind of sunny throughout. Thanks for sharing.
January 19, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Amazing contrasts!
January 19, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Very interesting contrasts. Thanks,
January 19, 2009 at 10:35 pm
January is a great time to visit Orlando.
January 19, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Louise: I’m sure it was the type of trees you were seeing. That was a colorful capture.
January 19, 2009 at 11:22 pm
A beautiful sequence, Louise.
Four different photos, all very interesting.
January 20, 2009 at 5:20 am
Great Orlando pictures, indeed no winters like here in Belgium (cold and snow)
January 20, 2009 at 7:47 am
Florida is like that – weird place.
January 20, 2009 at 7:59 am
The picture of the autumn tree is great.
It’s strange how nature can act. Overhere we had some roses that were in bloom in december …
January 20, 2009 at 9:28 am
I didn’t know about automn in january either. I was in Orlando in the 90th and I remember that it was awfully hot and humid !
January 20, 2009 at 9:51 am
Great shots! My tree just lost it’s leaves and I know the new leaves will start any time now. Our winter is very, very short! Enjoy Florida!
January 20, 2009 at 9:51 am
Loved your pictures from the trip-I didn’t know about the trees loosing their leaves either.
January 20, 2009 at 11:18 am
Beautiful colours!
January 20, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Orlando has beautiful places to visit, not only Disney World or Sea World or Universal Studios.
I can’t wait to see more of your pictures.
January 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm
What an unusual mix with the flowering tree and the autumn one. Both beautiful!
January 20, 2009 at 4:44 pm
That’s how a Japanese Maple looks in Winter, Louise! 🙂
January 20, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I didn’t know that about Florida either ~ very interesting! (And beautiful photos too.)
January 20, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Wow that world is way different from my own too!
January 20, 2009 at 10:32 pm
That was a colourful leafy/leafless world you had there! Why it was violet in the first one?
January 21, 2009 at 12:24 am
Nice aerial shot. Thanks for the virtual tour of your part of the world
January 21, 2009 at 10:04 am
What a novel way for a distant relative to participate in the youngster’s lives. A fine image of the girls’ intensely listening and reading along. Fine image.
January 21, 2009 at 11:34 am
Autumn is the most beautiful season !!!
January 21, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I noticed that exact same thing when I was in Orlando in late December. I just thought my mind had lost it. 🙂 ~ Lynn
January 22, 2009 at 7:34 am
That’s news to me too. Great shots to illustrate it all. 🙂
January 26, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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January 28, 2009 at 2:13 am
Wow Louise! It’s kinda cool. I love autumn trees, their colors are just pretty to look at. I’d like so much to make a pattern for cross-stitch of that autumn tree.
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August 8, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Hello, lovely photos, and the one of the woods looks like the trees are purple!
By the way, what month did you take this photo of the autumn tree and a flowering one?
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