Solar Lights For a Summer Yard
Even though people in Florida can use their yards all year, I think most of us still fall under the charm of spring and summer. I know I have been thinking a lot more about how to make the yard look inviting than I did over the winter. This past winter I was more focused on pulling up the dead crabgrass so the real grass would have room to grow back in this spring.
Last month we brought home an array of solar lighting fixtures for the yard. We put some motion-sensor solar lights in the house out back and bought some very cute strings of star-shaped lights to put in the ficus trees out front. We even got some lanterns that throw off star and moon patterns when they come on. And yes, they are all solar. We found a specialty store down in St. Pete that was having a big pre-season outdoor lighting sale. I wish I had grabbed more of the light strings, because once the prices went back up they became slightly cost prohibitive. 
One of the warehouse discount stores down the road has all the usual suspects right now, like hanging lanterns and garden lights that you stick into the ground with pegs. They are all solar and the prices are great, but they just don’t have that unique vibe like the little star lights we sprinkled throughout the trees. There is just something about the slightly blue cast of a solar light that blends into the peacefulness of night while still illuminating the world around us.
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