Glimpse of Lake from Maclay Gardens Walkway

by Carla Parris

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Glimpse of Lake from Maclay Gardens Walkway

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Carla Parris

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After visiting the grounds of Maclay Gardens State Park, in Tallahassee, Florida ,visitors follow this brick path past Lake Hall, under a canopy of live oak trees, back to the entrance. The walk is peaceful and lovely any time of year, but in the spring, a profusion of azaleas and the occasional flowering dogwood tree add another element of color and beauty to the scene, and in the late afternoon, the setting sun casts long shadows at every turn.

Unlike central Florida, where I grew up, northwest Florida has four seasons, and I have always thought Tallahassee is in her glory in the spring. Downtown areas and old established neighborhoods with mature landscaping are ablaze with color from azaleas. My favorite scenes include light, airy, flowering dogwood trees whose white blossoms provide a lovely contrast with the pinks and purples and oranges and whites of the azaleas. And if, as here, you can enjoy those springtime show-stoppers with a canopy road of overhanging live oak trees, dripping with Spanish moss and bedecked with resurrection fern, which will be bright green after a rain, all the better.

Tallahassee, though located in Florida, is only about 25 miles from the Georgia border, and with her red clay and the iconic Gone With the Wind type landscapes such as seen here, which just might also include a hunting plantation, she can often seem more akin to her Deep South neighbors to the north than to other more southerly parts of Florida (think Orlando and Disney, or Miami and Miami Beach). There is a reason some have called northwest Florida "the other Florida."

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June 1st, 2021

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