Category: Environmental

  •     Connection… with our natural world, with the beauty that is all around us, and with each other.   Love and Kindness             Guana Tolomato Matanzas Research Reserve. Ponte Vedre, Florida.

  •     Yesterday was the first day of summer, and here in St. Augustine it was a perfect summer day- clear skies with occasional clouds, temps in the mid 80's, and a soft breeze.   Later the Full Moon rose large and bright  over the river or ocean or road, depending on where you were.…

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  •   The whole fam-damily…     Daddy too!            

  •     Roseate Spoonbills. Oh, and a white one. And a duck.   Pals on the edge of the turtle pond.   (There's nothing more uncynical than being good to one another.)             Related articles Face it! Birds Have Expressive Faces Too. The Great Egret In A Hurry?

  •     A Favorite Poem   For the Anniversary of My Death By W. S. Merwin     Every year without knowing it I have passed the day    When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star   Then I will…

  •   Do flowers ever experience anxiety?     Well, probably not the poppy! (or would it be just the opposite?)   Nahhhh.         Poppy field of one on my deck!  

  •   After so many days of a wild wind…       No surfing today.         St. Augustine Inlet, April 17, 2016.    

  •     And the smiling moon! (Last night)               Thanks to Deborah Byrd's Earth and Sky, I could identify the red star, Aldebaran.

  •   Again!     Sea smoke.           Cold air meets warmish water and voila, sea smoke! Thanks to David for sharing this beautiful phenomena in the cold hours after sunrise, Sunday morning, January 24th, 2016. St. Augustine Beach.   Related articles Sea Smoke