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  • Dolphin Rising

      Coming up for air.         Thanks to Jake for encouraging me to get my camera out, otherwise I would have missed this shot! Cape Charles, Virginia, August, 2010.

  • Life is Sweet

      Life is sweet!         Guess where this photo was taken: Canada, France, Iceland, U.S.?  

  • Your Core

      Is there a part of you that is the essence of who you are? A part that is not corrupted by the culture that you grew up in or the family that tortured you one way or the other?   I call it your core. It is pure, whole, and located just below your…

  • Pelican Sets Sail

      Does a pelican in the water ever doubt that he can raise his sails and take to the air? In three powerful strokes, this huge bird is airborne and glides away.      

  • Flying Fish

      Flying fish in the sky!     Flying fish!         The "Fish Cloud" photograph was not manipulated in any way. Even if I knew how to do that, I didn't need to here. Nature provided.

  • The Returning River

      Matanzas inlet… a gull with a broken wing walks confidently to the edge of the spit, hitches a ride on the incoming tide and joins a gang of gulls on the other sandbar. Fish are jumping out of the returning river like skipping stones. The heron on the distant shore is quiet. With a…

  • Did I Smell Like Fish?

        The funniest gull sauntered up to me yesterday as I was sitting quietly alone on the beach. It was as if he wanted to tell me something. I am still trying to figure out what that was! He stayed for a good while, even tried to nibble my toes. Then he flew gracefully…

  • Armchair Winter Person

        You've heard of armchair gardeners? I am an armchair winter person. I love snow!       Photograph shot from the old Dusty Miller Inn, looking down Bradford Street, in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

  • Rock Solid

        This solid chair, situated in a garden beneath a huge live oak tree is made up of trillions of bouncing molecules, just like you and me. Sometimes we feel as grounded as a boulder. Other times scattered as the northern lights. Most days fall somewhere in between.   Having unshakable faith that life…

  • Hello, Dottie

        "Hello, Dottie, would you like some tea? You know, you don't need the name tag anymore, everyone knows you now. Oh, you like it. Yes, it is very nice. It lends the air of the traveller to you. You look pleased this morning. They take good care of you here, don't they?  …