I used to contemplated sending a box of crunchy leaves to a friend who’s always lived in Florida. She used to lament that the dry leaves around her didn’t crunch the way “autumn leaves” are supposed to (and it’s true. A lot of plants in Florida have waxy or fuzzy leaves, neither of which is as satisfying to stomp on as a crispy, dry, red maple leaf.)
The idea sounded better before I thought about how when you’re camping, it’s best to source firewood from the nearby area - bringing wood from far away could inadvertently spread diseases and pests into new locations. If that’s true of firewood from a few counties over, it’s probably true for leaves from northern states going to south Florida. Sigh.
I really can’t put into words the satisfaction of stepping on crunchy leaves.
As a coinessuer though, the leaf depicted is not a crunchy one.
I used to contemplated sending a box of crunchy leaves to a friend who’s always lived in Florida. She used to lament that the dry leaves around her didn’t crunch the way “autumn leaves” are supposed to (and it’s true. A lot of plants in Florida have waxy or fuzzy leaves, neither of which is as satisfying to stomp on as a crispy, dry, red maple leaf.)
The idea sounded better before I thought about how when you’re camping, it’s best to source firewood from the nearby area - bringing wood from far away could inadvertently spread diseases and pests into new locations. If that’s true of firewood from a few counties over, it’s probably true for leaves from northern states going to south Florida. Sigh.
I know I’m going to call down the wrath of the gods here, but it’s pretty hard to believe that Florida could actually get worse.