Category: Current Affairs

  •       The longest night, the shortest day, the light returns, slowly, but it returns!   Celebrate the dark, Celebrate the light!   Happy Winter Solstice!          

  •     This is the time of year to be gentle with everyone you meet. The guy who just cut you off in traffic might have gotten some really bad news, and be so distracted that he forgot his manners. Or the young woman on her cell phone who doesn't seem to realize that she…

  •   Grateful for the usual suspects… dear friends, family, cats, dogs, blue skies and the moon and stars, but especially for my time spent in nature. Time that pulls me out of my head and back to this beautiful complex world. I am grateful for that.     Lights reflecting on the bay by the…

  •     Our Moon was closest to us last night… could you feel it?   She climbed out of the clouds and was beautiful for the rest of the night. The tides were crazy high and the cats were just crazy!   Lots of folks out to see the "Super Moon."        …

  •     Ducks still swim in ponds and the sky still reflects beautifully on the water. The sun rises and sets and the moon too.   And so we must also, rise and set with the rhythms of life.           Ducks at Treaty Park where a historic treaty was signed with…

  •   Needing to get the undercarriage washed after the Hurricane, and the "Do it yourself" car wash didn't do the trick, I succumbed to the Show Boat Car Wash, and was glad that I did. It was nearly psychedelic, and it took me too long to get the phone out to shoot (although I like…

  •   So wonderful to see St. George Street full of activity…     and a dragon, and and and…   Happy Halloween!    

  •   How are we doing in St. Augustine?   We are strong, but fatigued. Grateful – "It could have been much worse", yet heartbroken, if not for ourselves, then for the other.   There are still piles and piles of debris in most neighborhoods. Debris that is mostly tree limbs and branches and spanish moss,…

  •   Boundless Energy!     The urge to make art, anytime, anywhere…     And making easy friends with driftwood creatures…                     St. Augustine Beach, nearly a week after the Hurricane, with Aden, October, 2016.

  •   There is a ton of debris and the St. Augustine Beach Pier is still closed, but we are survivors, we, who love the beach…   The Atlantic's back porch… Yoga? Anyone?   It's still dangerous to swim, but people were swimming and surfing and kite surfing.   Bless us all.