Category: Beaches

  •   What are you baking for the Holidays?         At the pool in Cocoa Beach, after a week of rain in St. Augustine! (Summer,2008)  

  •     What's your soul's favorite color?   Blue beach, blue sky, blue water. There are so many blues.   Can a color really save your soul?    

  •     Rainy days at the beach – they're challenging for the shop owners in this tourist town, but what can you do? Complain?   As kids we would complain, then play cards and laugh and complain some more. Now we might walk in between the raindrops, enjoying the wind and the wild sea, or…

  •     The rising moon, almost full. Anyone for a moon dance? There's time enough for worry and care and grief, they'll wait. Let's Dance!    

  •     Late blooming grasses – patient, resilient, beautiful.    

  •   When you are right in the middle of a storm, it's all there is – wind, rain, noise, thunder, lightening. You feel as scattered as the sand that relentlessly blows away and away.   From the air it looks quite different. Blue sky above, sun shining and billowy clouds below. If you are in…

  •   When I lived in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, and was ready to launch my little daysailer for the very first time, (not pictured here) I went to the Harbor Master thinking that I might have to pay a ramp fee. I asked him if I needed anything to launch and he answered,…

  •     According to some observers the pelican will actually enter the water upside down in order to catch the fish.   Imagine a pelican in the grocery store asking the pelican behind the counter, "Is that fish wild or farm raised?" The pelican behind the counter stands on his head and says, "They came…

  •       Living close to water with the ocean breezes, the need for grounding arises from time to time. In Florida the live oak tree, so grand and elegant, is the perfect antidote. Well over 200 years old, these living monuments surprise and amaze with their sprawling limbs, thick crusty trunks and roots that…