“The air was now cool and salubrious, and riding seven or eight miles, through a pine forest, I came toSapello bridge, to which the salt tide flows. I here stopped…” — William Bartram, 1741, “Travels” ...

While rowing along the shore of our lake near Groveland, splashes of purple caught my eye. During the month of March, pinecones are forming in Central Florida, and on our property, several thousand ...