Let’s continue exploring what Fire Season is all about here in Southwest Florida. This is the time of year when people are visiting us from the Northern United States and Canada. People stay for a week or two or more, perhaps a couple of months. To the visitors, it is warm here, compared to Michigan or Ohio, or Pennsylvania, where it is below freezing. Consequently, January-February- and March is when we have every imaginable festival going on. It is an explosion of riches.
There are: Food festivals, arts festivals, medieval faires, music festivals; Concerts, Circuses, and Open Houses and parades of homes, and street parades, and more. There are also all the fund-raisers events going on. The charity balls, the galas, the silent auctions. Most of these events are held on the weekends.
And there is typically at least 3 different things you want to do each weekend, and people have to make decisions about what they will attend, and what they will have to skip this year. (Of course, some events may migrate to the net town up the road, next weekend so if you want to catch it, you could go on a road trip.) Most people have a limited allowance of money or time to spend on all this activity. You have to budget accordingly.
But in a few months, all that activity will die down. The Snowbirds will leave, and it will become too hot to have festivals outdoors every weekend. (At least, too hot for most people.) There will still be some events like boat races and the seafood festivals.
SO the yearly influx of people is like a fuel for the fire of the yearly smorgasbord of festivals.
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