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Category: Encouragement

  • The Bridge to Somewhere

        Looking like giant sails, this is Jacksonville's bridge to the airport and other destinations north of St. Augustine, (or south if you are headed south).   There is good energy when you are under her sails, like all is right with the world. It is challenging to soak it in at 60 miles…

  • Under Sunny Skies

        Bees are busy in the sunflower, while others nap under the warm, rejuvenating sun on the sand.        

  • How To Walk In The Mud

      This is how to walk in mud…   It helps if you have a pair of wings!       Egret and Heron walking in the shallows at Wakulla Springs State Park, ©2007.

  • Down and Up!

      Looking down.     Looking up!         Vaill Point, #2, St. Augustine Shores.

  • A Mini Nor’easter

        Lots of wind and clouds and some rain, under the mini nor'easter at St. Augustine Beach Sunday evening.   Like the storms in our hearts, the wind dies down, the rain stops, the clouds break up. And with not just a little faith in our physical universe, the sun will rise in the…

  • Clean Sweep

        Part of the millennium Poem by Maya Angelou encouraged us to leave our baggage at the gate.   Some "things" have been trailing me for a lot of years, and now it's time for a clean sweep.   Bye, bye lovely and sticky things and thanks!       Photo was a happy…

  • Go Easy…

        Sometimes we need peaceful moments to quiet the mind and let the heart feel what it feels.   Life is BIG and there's a lot to take in. So, go easy and rest your busy mind from time to time.       Vaill Point at Moultrie Creek, St. Augustine, Florida.  

  • Water Lilies

        As beautiful as the night.   "Which night?" You might ask.   The night of shooting stars or lightening bugs, or the first time you held the hand of someone you really loved?   You pick!       Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, Water Garden with tropical water lilies.

  • Grief

        Both plains and mountains Have been captured by the snow- There is nothing left.                                                                  Haiku by Joso     Grief, like that…

  • Ahhhh…

        Yes!   This is what living near the ocean in the summertime is all about!   Watch out!         Photo taken last September by Vicki Johnston, but could have been this evening, except the waves were rougher and Vicki wasn't there.