Old Florida

The orange groves, rotting mangoes, Bok Tower, falling in the qaurries of Ocala, Disney, swimming in clear pools of spring water, the sound of cicadas hissing, eating fried fish served by ladies with beehives at Proctors Restaurant, John G's, sand stuck between your toes, alligators, dead possums with maggots, boardwalks, hurricane parties, cyprus swamps, pink pickled eggs served in paper, fried chicken with Crsytal hotsauce from a paper bag, Blue Front BBQ, key limes, burying dead lizards, poisonous snakes, Super Duper Super Market, Winn Dixie and the last Piggly Wiggly, Sister Noris, Roosevelt Elementary, barefoot postmen, O Street, Tamarind Ave., The Hut, Whitehall, heat and its partner humidity, Zora Neale Hurston, Mizner, Belle Glade, The Old Central High School, Lake Worth Pier, water skiing formations, okra, skin sticking to the car seat, Viscaya, ambrosia salad, Southern Belles at Cyprus Gardens...baby blue, soft yellow, pink and of course orange.