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These solid, sturdy, dependable mountains, remind me of the wild, rolling ocean, wave after wave after wave. Except they are very much more grounded than the airy, watery ocean waves. The view from Brasstown Bald Mountain in Georgia. Reprinted with added text, from Laine's Blog, March 2013.
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How do you catch a unique rabbit? You 'neak up on him. How do you catch a tame rabbit? Tame way. HOPPY Easter Everyone, the most pagan of the Christian Holy Days. Reprinted from Laine's Blog, November, 2013.
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Worrying… It's quite a distraction… and then, well… Wonder on the other hand, it will lift you up and up and up! (I wonder what I will worry about today?) (I worry what I will wonder about tomorrow!) Just wonderin'. "Captain" is buried at Disney…
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What do we look like to the butterfly – clumsy, mobile trees with no nectar to recommend us? If butterflies only live two weeks or so, and some trees live 300+ years, then the span of one human life must look to the tree the way that the butterfly's life looks to…
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How tightly wrapped are you? Will you unfold into something big and beautiful when your time comes? Springtime in St. Augustine. There are early bloomers and late bloomers and everything in between. A time for all.
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This photograph was an Astronomy Picture of the Day, on March 14, 2015. It shows a Russian Spacecraft carrying three astronauts, one American and two Russians, returning from the International Space Station over a sea of golden clouds. You don't hear much about cooperation between these two nations, but…
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Are there two sides to the Irish mythology – leprechauns playing jokes on folks while faeries dance in circles beneath enchanted trees, and the deep sadness that you hear in her ballads and songs? Here's hoping for a balance between the joys and sorrows on this St. Patty's Day and…
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They say, if you're lucky enough to live near the beach, you're lucky enough. I concur. It's just a hop, skip and a jump away, lucky me! St. Augustine Beach, February 26, 2015.
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Just kidding, (you know who you are.) Now yesterday's choices, Saint Augustine or Szentendre? Well, it might have been Harry's on the bayfront here is St. Augustine, or possibly even The Riverside in Savannah, but it was Szentendre, Hungary on the Danube river. Thanks for playing everyone, it was fun! …
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Saint Augustine, Florida or Szentendre (Saint Andrews), Hungary? Yesterday's answer…can you say "Lit'l Itly?" Baltimore!