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Category: Environmental

  • Are You A Being or A Doing?

        On considering the possibility of actual mermaids being discovered, what would be the most interesting thing that we could learn about our kin in the sea?   That they send their kids to the best underwater schools? That they work really hard to get a piece of the treasure that is hidden somewhere…

  • Hydrangea

      Hydrangea, an interesting name for a beautiful old-fashioned flower.   Proof, perhaps, that a rose by any other name…        

  • Quiet Evening

        A quick stop at the beach after yoga and there are dolphins gracefully travelling south, while the sun sets over the beach,     and the moon smiles…             St. Augustine Beach, it's good to be home.  

  • No Regrets

        No egrets. Oh, one egret.   No regrets.   (Mostly.)       Great Egret at sunset.

  • Beckoning

        There's something about a sandbar that beckons you to come out past your comfort zone, to tempt the tide and time, just a little farther, a little longer… all will be well. Promise!     Matanzas River, between the inlet and the fort.

  • Mimid

        Singing her little heart out, just for me!         This Brown Thrasher had me fooled for a little while as she was singing like a Mockingbird right outside my door.

  • The Rest of the Moon Story…

      On the way to the beach to watch the moon rise, and crossing the Bridge of Lions, there rose the BIG and beautiful moon. With the car parked on the other side of the bridge and walking to  get a shot of the moon in the rigging of El Galeon which is docked in…

  • The Sun Never Sets

        The way that the horizon curves in this photograph, it looks as though the sun might take us all with it, clouds, earth and water, as it sets beautifully at the end of a long day.   But the sun doesn't really set, does it?   So it can't take us down with…

  • These Two Clouds

    These two clouds drifted apart a bit more before coming back so close together that they became one. Kind of like our relationships, the rythm of our friendships and love, ebbing and flowing like grand clouds dancing in the sky. Far apart one moment and close as a kiss the next. This is a time…

  • Getting Above the Clouds

        That moment when the wheels lift off the tarmac and you are airbourne, just inches from the ground, you shake your head at the thought of this huge metal can flying and off you go, into the clouds on a rainy day in Baltimore.   It's not raining above the clouds, the sun…