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If you ask me what I miss most from my time on Cape Cod it is this – these amazing animals! While working on the Whale Watch boats I found myself eye to eye with a beautiful Humpback Whale. I was all alone on the back of the boat and there she…
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The way the light catches the sails at a certain time of day… it's irresistible, delicious, wonderful. The Schooner Freedom returning to safe harbor. ©LaineQuinn 2022
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Resembling luminescent jewels, the colors of the ocean at sunset on a calm evening, raise the spirit, like the sails of a great ship filling with a welcome breeze. Filling the heart with Love! Happy Valentine's Day! St. Augustine Beach, 2.10.14. Reprinted from Laine's blog, 2014, with additions!…
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Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. T.S. Eliot From the poem "Ash Wednesday" Photo ©Laine Quinn Boat on a pond in Wellfleet.
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St. Augustine Harbor looking east, with the sun low in the west lighting up the sky, after an afternoon storm. (True Colors!) ©LaineQuinn 2015 St. Augustine, Florida
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It's that time of year – in a very odd year _ when emotions are raw and memories haunt you. Riding waves of feelings, not knowing where they come from, or why, or how long, you hang on. Storms come and they go, and you hang on. You hang…
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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…
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Let the beauty that you love be what you do. Rumi
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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.…