We are still relaxing in Frostproof a town where the post office has 4,000 deliveries in the summer and 12,000 after the snowbirds arrive. We rang in the new year with Bill and Judy and several of their family and friends. The 31st was also Bill's birthday so they let him draw the winning ticket for a 50/50 raffle and he picked his own number (lucky guy). After New Year's Day we had three days of very cool weather with one night where Frostproof did not live up to its name. The temperature got down to 29 degrees and the orange groves in the area had to water down trees to protect the fruit that was not ready to pick. The good news is that the forecast now calls for temps in the 80's. We drove to nearby Lake Wales and visited the Bok Sanctuary Nature Preserve, a 250 acre park. To see the sanctuary we had to climb Iron Mountain the highest point in Florida at 324 feet above sea level. (Look out Everest.) The preserve which contains a large variety of native Florida flora was the creation of Edward Bok, a Dutch immigrant, who was the editor of Ladies Home Journal. The grounds were designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted Jr. who also worked on the Biltmore in North Carolina, many of the park lands in Washington, DC and the Colombian Exhibition in Chicago, just to name a few. There is a 205 foot carillon at the top of the mountain where they have recitals several times a day. 
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