The Native Floridian – Wayne Roth Photography

When will it end?  The Citrus Freeze of 2010 has been brutal on my trees.  Central Florida is not supposed to get this cold this many times.  About a month ago most of the fruit froze completely and has fallen to the ground along with the leaves.  Florida Photography has many challenges, the least of which we anticipate to be cold weather.  Frozen Fingers, running noses, and those dreaded poor performing cold batteries!   Nothing renders a camera useless more quickly than the extreme cold.  I’m not sure if this qualifies as extreme but in Florida it is extreme for this much cold for this long.  This is the second day with overnight temperatures being in the twenty’s.  We just had a little warm up, a little rain and some new fresh green growth on my fruit trees!!!  Yea! They are not dead.  Well at least not yet.  If this keeps up, the Winter Warlock will be as bad at pruning the fruit trees fresh green growth as those hungry little deer.  Hopefully that was the last of the arctic blast from the frozen north and the fresh citrus buds will soon be followed by blossoms and their aromatic smell.  Until then this Native Florida Photographer will try to keep warm and always have an extra battery or two in my pocket because a cold dead battery never did a camera any good.