When Life Gives You Lemons 02/16/19

Lake Louisa State Park, Clermont, Florida

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. ~ Colossians 3:12-14

I wanted to share some of the history of this State Park, so I’ve written some excerpts from their brochure:

Lake Louisa is the largest in a chain of 13 lakes connected by the Palatlakaha River. The Park contains 11 distinct natural communities, including: sandhills, scrub, upland mixed forest, swamp, marsh, wet flatwoods, hydric hammock, blackwater stream and old citrus grove. Let’s focus on the citrus grove part. 😊

In 1943, the Bronson family acquired some of the property and established orange groves and a cattle ranch. Acres of old pasture and some of the orange groves from this era can still be seen in the Park today. Purchased by the state in 1973, the Lake Louisa property became a State Park in 1974 and opened to the public in 1977.

So now we know why there’s orange trees everywhere!

But that’s not all! Today, Blaine and I went for a walk and found something else!