Category: Environmental

  •   The beauty around us  No matter where you are  There is beauty around you!         The Inlet St. Augustine ©LaineQuinn 2022

  •   Does anyone remember this?   You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.   That worthiness is the thing that was missing in my early years. There is a book that has convinced me that I am equally deserving of…

  •     Life longing for itself…         Quote from Sweet Honey on the Rocks quoting Kahlil Gibran. Tadpoles, 2 generations, life goes on and on – no matter what the humans are doing! Birds, bees, bugs, frogs,squirrells – all of it! And Why not?   ©LaineQuinn 2022

  •   What's up is down!   And what's down is up!     It stretches the mind…       Reflections ©LaineQuinn2022  

  •   Small Wonders   Snails together on the sidewalk, two tiny snails, one larger – Mother and son? Sisters?  Brothers? Friends?   Where are they going? Together?!        

  •   "…flowering plants were revolutionary in their appearance on the earth some two hundred million years ago, are dominant on land from the arctic to the tropics, and are crucial to our survival."   Since reading those lines in Rebecca Solnit's book, Orwell's Roses, I haven't been able to look at a flower without a…

  •   Jupiter sailing past Venus in the early morning hour.     Venus is the brighter planet although Jupiter is larger, it's much farther away! That was Sunday morning, just before sunrise. Each day Jupiter moves farther away from Venus.   But what a wonderful pair!       ©LaineQuinn 2022, St. Augustine, Florida

  •   Between cloudy nights and thunderstorm days, the moon only showed her face two times for an entire month.   But the clouds – the clouds were wonderful! building each day in the willing sky, between sun and rain and rainbows!           ©LaineQuinn 2021 Stormy July!

  •     Sometimes when I am standing at the water's edge, looking out over the waves, I think that I should be having some profound thought or insight into my life or life in general. But, I never do.   Sometimes I am worried about something. Sometimes I am not worried!     Standing there…

  •     That we dedicate a day for the celebration of the Earth is absurd and also necessary.   The, so called, "most intelligent" creatures that life has spawned can't even protect that which sustains their very existence. (It wasn't always this way.)   There are people involved in the destruction of our air, water…