Louise Dickinson Rich is very down to earth.
Our woods are mixed hardwoods. We live on the Santa Fe River near High Springs, FL. We have magnolia, hickory, sweet gum, oak, a few huge pine trees, lots of dogwood and bay trees. There's a kind of gnarled understory tree called a sparkleberry that has reddish trunks and grows in groves and is covered with small white bell flowers in the spring. It really is nice except for the mosquitos and ticks, but we go to southwestern Maine for the summer.
I saw you live in Vermont. That sounds pretty too.