Category: Environmental

  •   Heat lightening, silent and beautiful. Thunder followed, but no rain, not the first night.     The rain came the second night, finally.           The heat lightening looked a little like this, lighting up the clouds from within but with slashes of lightening bolts every now and then. This shot…

  •       Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things.   All's well.               Reprinted from Laine'sBlog, June 2012.  

  •   Water, the most yielding and the strongest of nature's wonders, is a chameleon.     Reflecting the sky, it is all kinds of blue. (all the bumps in the shot are turtles!)     Looking down it takes on the color of the sand and leaves and turtles!            …

  •     Maybe my phone really is smarter than I am… It took this photo when I wasn't looking.                   Saturday's twilight taken by the Samsun Galaxy S4 without my knowing it, St. Augustine Beach, Florida.  

  •   Old Cypress                   St. Simons Island, Georgia, 2015.    

  •     A new chair for the beach. Ahhhhh. A short walk. Low tide, blue sky, and the lowering sun shining across it all.           St. Augustine Beach, June 2015.  

  •     Sitting in the hammock isn't usually considered hazardous duty, but there is no reason to take needless chances. So, out comes the camera and off you go onto the nearest branch. Oh, you don't like that one? Then the second choice - go! (Must be related to cats.) (Might be going to a beach…

  •       A little blue memorial for all lives lost, on the ground, in the air and at sea.   May we find peaceful solutions to complicated conflicts so that we never have to ask the ultimate sacrifice of our women and men in uniform.             St. Augustine Beach.…

  •   Our little dunes are flowering again.     Sandy soil, sunshine, salty breezes… Some of us thrive under these conditions!             St. Augustine Beach, Florida.

  •       Spiders and webs, what a brilliant idea! How did Mother Nature come up with these things?   This spider is so curious that it is difficult to discern its head from its toe. There are so many secrets in life to unravel, it's astonishing.                …