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  • Favorite Autumn Colors

        The maple tree leaves, my favorite autumn colors.   What are yours? Do you have a favorite mum? How about those white pumpkins? Maybe we'll have purple pumpkins next year!   Are you carving or baking them, or just enjoying their company?   And always the perennial worry, what to do with the…

  • Reluctant Lady

        Yes. Of course I have a story… but, not now, another time.   Come back another time. You'll see.   Yes, I have a story.       The Reluctant Lady is tucked away in one of the magnificent hedges at LaDew Gardens, in Jarrettsville Maryland.

  • Golden Moments

        Another season comes and goes, another year. The moments add up – beautiful moments, sad moments, anxious moments, and some golden moments.   You can't grasp them – they're not for that, but you can notice with a breath, a moment in time.   Breathe in…         Maple leaves with…

  • Hovering Clouds

        Hovering clouds, here one day and gone the next. Sunshine follows, almost  always.          

  • Beauty Berry

        All dressed up for autumn in St. Augustine, the marshes are starting to turn from green to red to gold to brown, thier winter clothes coming out of storage, while the Beauty Berry shows us just how pretty magenta can be. Another nor'easter rearranges the beach and the salty winds prove irresistible to…

  • Time To Paint

        It has taken me a lot of lot of years, to finally knuckle down and really learn how to paint.   Thanks to all my friends, who have given me brushes, and paints, and paper, and canvas, over the lot of years, and to the two friends who have bravely begun the arduous…

  • Go Fly A Kite

        The guy who was flying this kite must have the soul of a bird. He could make it hover inches above the sand and water, only to bring it soaring into the sky with a wave of his magic wand.              Kite and sunset, St. Augustine Beach.  …

  • A Look Back

                Quotes from Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud.

  • Time For A Change

        Upside down? Downside up?        

  • Just In Case…

        In case we need to be reminded that we live in a beautiful world, rainbows appear when we least expect them!         Looking over Moultrie Creek toward St. Augustine South from Vaill Point, the shard of a rainbow is reflected in the still water.