Category: Encouragement

  •     It's not too shabby when you have finally stopped sabatoging your own happiness and joy.   Silver linings everywhere.           Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine Florida.      

  •       How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers?   It's a good day for some sweetness!     (You can almost smell the plumeria!)         Reprinted from LainesBlog, August 2012      

  •      "Oh, we are coming down faster than I thought!"   "At least it looks like it'll be a soft landing…"   "Hold onto your hats, kids!"           Those funny fall migrating birds coming in for a landing, St. Augustine.      

  •     The world seems to be trying to turn me into a morning person. All I can say is, "Not yet, not yet, not yet."         Sunrise, and birds on the wire, (didn't make it to the inlet in time!) St. Augustine.  

  •     After weeks of extreme heat and still air, this Nor'easter stirs the soul and the senses, and makes you believe in autumn again.   Low light and long shutter speeds catch the movement of the waves under the spell of the wild wind.   And yes, it rained and rained and rained.  …

  •   Karaoke Night     Do be do be do…             They are everywhere this time of year, watch out! Karaoke Night reprinted from October 2013, from Laine's Blog, and with her permission!    

  •     This must be the month of the Dentist. Everytime I tell someone that I had to go to the dentist, they say, oh, I went today too, or I went 2 days ago, or oh yeah, I have to do that soon.   Imagine what a visit to the dentist was like a…

  •     Sunrays breaking through the morning air, shining an extraordinary light on ordinary things.         St. Augustine, backyard art.        

  •   When the going gets tough, the tough get going, and going, and going!     (Hey, wait for me!)         St. Augustine Beach, and keeping up with Aden…      

  •     One side of the sky, gray and rumbling, the other giving us a cloud show.   The rain came, and getting home after dark, there was a heady scent in the air, like night blooming jasmine.   Where did it come from? Is it that season again?           Related…