Category: Birds

  •   Standing in line at the Winn Dixie one morning, someone said something that stayed with me… It went something like this in response to another person apologizing for taking so long…   If I was in a hurry, I would have gotten here earlier…   I liked that.   Once in awhile, we do…

  •     The first guess what this is was a detail of this shot of an Anhinga in the Everglades, Florida. Here is another shot of the same creature to get a better perspective…     The second Guess what this is was a detail of this shot…     an alligator just at the surface of…

  •       Thanks to David Gardner, our resident morning person for sharing his sunrise photographs. This stunner is from yesterday, July 7th, 2015.   Wish I had been there!           St. Augustine Beach, ©David Gardner, 2015.      

  •       Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things.   All's well.               Reprinted from Laine'sBlog, June 2012.  

  •   Water, the most yielding and the strongest of nature's wonders, is a chameleon.     Reflecting the sky, it is all kinds of blue. (all the bumps in the shot are turtles!)     Looking down it takes on the color of the sand and leaves and turtles!            …

  •     …not from New York!               My favorite Ice Cream at the beach, St. Augustine Beach. Related articles The First Ice Cream Ad Ever

  •     Little fish watch out. As the sun prepares to set. White bird is dining.         And Human is watching…Vilano Beach, St. Augustine inlet.  

  •   When I was a little girl, I loved the smell of the earth, flowers and trees and fresh mown grass, starry nights and beautiful sunsets, and time spent at the beach.           A lot of life has happened between then and now, and I still love all of those things,…

  •     And those pelicans flying so close to the water you think they might trip.   But they don't!     They don't!               Pelicans, St. Augustine Beach, April Fools Day, 2015.  

  •   Who are those nervous birds in the tree on the parking lot of the pet store?   Ah ha!     They're the wonderful Cedar Waxwings, coming through again!   Moments later…             In the top photo, you can see air plants as well as mistletoe and little flowers…