Florida winters are dry, months without significant rain are not unusual. Yet, in this dry period, nights are often foggy or misty. When my parents were visiting during one winter, I gave them my bedroom and camped out in the studio. The first night was foggy, and as I was going to bed, I thought I heard rain. Because rain was unusual, I stepped out onto the porch to watch. However, it was not raining. Yet, I could still hear the rain. The sound was coming from the slash pines. The noise was water was dripping from the trees. Since the Florida pine(Slash Pine) has very long needles, they bend down toward the earth. The mist was condensing on the needles and dripping to the ground. The roots of these pines come right to the surface to catch these drops before they evaporated.