Florida Fall Foliage?

During our trip to Orlando last week, I was amazed at how much the leaves have changed up there. Now granted, it's obviously NOTHING like up north, but for Orlando, and for December this was pretty impressive. Even a few of the trees in South Florida have changed as well:Pretty oranges and reds. We don't have a lot of the types of trees that change colors here in South Florida, but we do have a few.

The reason for these changing leaves? Several very strong cold fronts during the month of December. After tonight and tomorrow night, we will have had 6 nights in the 30's. Usually, we get one or two nights in the 30's all winter, and that's not until late January or February sometime. I love it! It's so beautiful.

And speaking of weather, we had the greatest weather that we've ever had at Disney. One day it was gray and drizzly and chilly, and it was just me and Grace, but it was SOOOOOO much better than sweating. Soooo much better. I was freezing most of time, and tons of people had gloves, scarves, hats, you name it. All I had was a scarf and a sweater......but it beats the heat in my book anytime. We were truly fortunate because the other times we've been at Disney we have had temps in the 70's-80's. We had a really great time.

On a side note, one night, we were driving home from Ray's brother, Rob's house and it was foggy out. Well, as we kept driving, the fog got thicker and thicker. It was crazy! I haven't ever driven through fog like that before because back home, if its foggy, it's only foggy for like a block and then it's clear. But this just kept going and going and going.

Tonight and tomorrow night we will have lows in the mid to lower 30's (yay). Right now, the cold front is blowing through, and it is SUPER windy with winds around 25 mph and gusting higher! I love the sound of the wind!

Here are some pics of the leaves, which do not do them justice. I don't have a very good camera, and I didn't get to capture all the leaves that we actually saw, but I tried.