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  • Sometimes…

        Sometimes when I am standing at the water's edge, looking out over the waves, I think that I should be having some profound thought or insight into my life or life in general. But, I never do.   Sometimes I am worried about something. Sometimes I am not worried!     Standing there…

  • A Round of Robins!

      Noisy birds in the Hollies dozens of them with a familiar sound from childhood Robin Red Breasts  feasting in Florida away from the Arctic Air and ice up North, and stopping for a bath!             Canadian Robins, a long way from home and probably glad of it, the original…

  • What Comes After…

        Collectively it is time that we imagine a better world. No matter what happens in the next months or years, it is time to put our minds on better things.  Call it the power of positive thinking, of visualizing, of collective prayer – it all works and can change the world.   Psychopathic…

  • Yoga at the Beach…

      Full Twist   Alternate leg stretch               ©2020, Laine Quinn Snowy Egret, Great Blue Heron, St. Augustine Beach

  • Trust Your Feelings…

      (Sea gull wondering if it is safe to join the others…)   *"If social distancing needs to be extended long term, scientists recommend forming an inner circle of uninfected friends and family that you can rely on to maintain social bonds…"   Some others call this a pod – forming a pod of trusted…

  • What if…

      HELP!   What if, when chemical companies came up with the idea to spray food crops with the deadly compounds that were developed in wartime, someone very important had said,   "This is a really bad idea."   OR   What if, 20 or 30 years later, when a bright caring poet/scientist saw the…

  • This is Dedicated to…

        Whenever I see a line of pelicans coming along the beach, over the waves, their wingtips just grazing the water, I get a little bit jealous of how simple their life appears to be.   It seems that the creatures of this world are better at meeting their daily needs than the oh…

  • One of These Days…

      I'm going to learn to fish!     Not like the patient and swift Egret, or the people who go out to sea, no matter the weather. No, more like the folks standing on the shore patiently casting and reeling in.       But, I never could stomach putting a live worm on…

  • Reflections…

        A serene scene for anxious times… Mother Nature hasn't given up on us yet.           St. Augustine Beach, 9.11.19 ©Laine Quinn What we can do to support the climate strike on Friday, the 20th of September- Don't buy anything on line that has to be delivered to your home,…

  • An Old Favorite…MOM?

          That's not Mom.                                                (Why are they staring at me?)          Are you sure?               It's not Mom.                                     (Hey, guys, I didn't do it, whatever it is,         No, too tall, I guess.                                   …