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Category: Beaches
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Calm mornings at the beach… The sea oats are already turning from green to gold to brown, about to drop their seeds for next spring. A Poem Walking down my stairs, I see a lizard. It turns and looks at me, tilting her head! I wonder, WHAT does she see?…
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An affair of the heart and soul… Where waves crash hearts are mended. St. Augustine Beach, June 2018. © Laine Quinn 2018
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A trick of the eye… how close are they to the crashing waves? No photographic tricks, just a matter of perspective. St. Augustine Beach, © Laine Quinn, 2018 (Zooming in with the phone, poor quality.)
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Happy New Year, and Welcome 2018! (And so long 2017, and Good Bye!) (Good Riddance!) Leaving a difficult year and venturing into the unknown new one. Learning to balance the bad news and sorrows with the joy and love that is all around. Thanks to all for the Joy and…
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Every day the sun rises, whether we see it or not, the rotation of the earth allows for one sunrise and one sunset a day. On the International Space Station the sun rises and sets about 15 times a day! It's a shift in perspective, a way different point of view!…
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This was spotted on my way home from the beach yesterday evening… My life is better than your vacation. So, assuming a lot, like if any of that is true, would you be the "My" in that sentence, or the "Your"? Maybe a little bit of both, I hope! …
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The thing about evacuating ahead of a powerful, deadly storm, that may or may not be a direct hit on your world, is that you say "goodbye" to your life, your things and your home, not knowing what you will find when you return. Here in St. Augustine, most of us have been…
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A Beautiful sunny holiday. Lots of families out to enjoy the beach, playing, fishing, reading in the sun. An overheard conversation about Hurricane Harvey – on people's minds – and another Hurricane barrelling toward the islands. But life must go on, if we are to make sense of any of it.…
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Rain to the left of me, Rain to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with a view! More from the Crescent Beach storm, 7.10.2017. That's the shrimp boat on the horizon!
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In between the sky and the sea. Rain clouds closing in from the south and the north. Whenever a boat takes to the water, there is a story to tell. Storms, sea creatures, and the one that got away. There is always a story! Crescent Beach, storms brushing by…