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Category: Environmental
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In downtown New York City’s far west side there used to be a raised train track for the trains delivering or picking up meat and produce. Completed in 1934, it replaced a former street level train that had been the cause of many fatal accidents. So many that the city hired…
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It turns out that keeping company with 300 year old Oak Trees is good medicine. Something about the grandeur, and the quietness, and the solid grounded feelings that they emote. How many lives have passed this way? How many storms? How much sunshine and moonshine and happy voices and sad voices? …
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It's not too shabby when you have finally stopped sabatoging your own happiness and joy. Silver linings everywhere. Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine Florida.
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How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers? It's a good day for some sweetness! (You can almost smell the plumeria!) Reprinted from LainesBlog, August 2012
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"Oh, we are coming down faster than I thought!" "At least it looks like it'll be a soft landing…" "Hold onto your hats, kids!" Those funny fall migrating birds coming in for a landing, St. Augustine.
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The world seems to be trying to turn me into a morning person. All I can say is, "Not yet, not yet, not yet." Sunrise, and birds on the wire, (didn't make it to the inlet in time!) St. Augustine.
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After weeks of extreme heat and still air, this Nor'easter stirs the soul and the senses, and makes you believe in autumn again. Low light and long shutter speeds catch the movement of the waves under the spell of the wild wind. And yes, it rained and rained and rained. …
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Sunrays breaking through the morning air, shining an extraordinary light on ordinary things. St. Augustine, backyard art.
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One side of the sky, gray and rumbling, the other giving us a cloud show. The rain came, and getting home after dark, there was a heady scent in the air, like night blooming jasmine. Where did it come from? Is it that season again? Related…
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Set this shot as my desktop photo and it takes my breath away everytime I look at it. Borrowed from the Astronomy Picture of the Day, the Milky Way and bioluminescence and glowing light in the sky, along the shoreline of Victoria Lake, Australia. Oh my! …