Category: Beaches
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What to do with the unlovable parts of ourselves? Try as we might, we can't run away or separate ourselves from our shadows. What happens if we sit and stay, like a good dog that wants to jumpandrunaround so badly, but we sit and we stay, and we don't look away? The…
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Such a mild winter, still walking with toes in the water. Are we on borrowed time? Such a superstitious species! If we're having a warm winter, then what's the summer going to be like? Being human and being in the moment, enjoying what shows up, is the challenge we mortals have faced…
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The diversity found in nature is sometimes mind boggling. Pictured here are two black skimmers and a laughing gull. Skimmers are apparently the only species of bird with the lower mandible longer than the upper. Watching them as they fly so close to the water to capture small fish and insects near…
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Let's never forget that we are a nation that can dream BIG, and make those dreams come true. What are your dreams for our America? The last launch of the Space Shuttle, Discovery, seen from St. Augustine Beach on February 24th, 2011.
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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…
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Even here at sea level, we have Big Sky! (There's a crescent moon hiding in these clouds somewhere, but I can't find it!)
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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…
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Although the WInter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, it is a celebration of light. It's the birthday of the sun. Our red star turns his warm face back to earth once again and like the ancients, we are assured that there will be another spring and another harvest and…
