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Category: Environmental

  • The Cacophony of Life

        When our lives become more outward, for whatever reason, we get really busy or find a new friend or become a grandparent or a parent, then there is less time to ponder our inner world.   This is  not bad or good, it just is!   So long as we enjoy the cacophony…

  • Day 2…

        The Bridge of Lions, with El Galeon in the background and a beautiful storm gathering on the second day of the 450th celebration.             September 5th, 2015. St. Augustine Florida.

  • With or Without Us…

        Isn't it wonderful that no matter how busy we are with our very important lives, nature carries on, with or without us!   There go the sea oats again, from green to golden, to brown, to gone.             Anastasia Island State Park, Sea Oats in Golden phase, yesterday.…

  • Sea Horse…

      In the clouds…                 Laine is back from a little break in posting! Guess I needed it. Vilano Beach storms brewing.   Related articles In A Hurry?

  • Simple Pleasures

          This is the kind of day that makes you wish that you had a little boat and could wander along the marshes, spying on blue herons, and green herons and egrets, maybe run into Ratty and Mole from The Wind In The Willows, having tea in one of the coves, taking time for…

  • The Movement of the Stars…

        Not even a month ago, the crescent moon kept company with Venus and Jupiter for awhile. The two planets are now in our blind spot and the moon, well the moon has been all over the sky since then!   The movement of the stars and planets marks the march of time in…

  • Good Morning…

        This morning person in training caught the sun rising.   Footprints sinking into oblivion. Leave nothing behind…         St. Augustine Beach, sunrise and sandpipers, August 6th, 2015.  

  • Sea Oats Going By

          At the end of the day. The end of a world. The end of a life.   Doors close. Chapters end.   And then it begins again.   The sea oats going by will be back in the spring.   The sun that sets rises again.   The mystery is solved in…

  • Evening Clouds

        St. Augustine's Lighthouse dwarfed by the rolling clouds of a summer's evening.             Not exactly a Haiku, but close! St. Augustine, Matanzas River and lighthouse.  

  • A Room For A ‘shroom…

      Is that a little flying saucer that landed in the hollow of my tree?     Or a package for a spy?   Naaaa…     It's a mushroom, with a room of its own.     And a little friend and a few bugs…