Category: Environmental

  •     This is the day that the rain started and it seemed that it would never stop.   But it did and all is well now. The ponds are higher than they've been in a long long time, and the birds are singing, happy as ever.         St. Augustine Beach, the…

  •     The better to hear you with, my dear.         White Tail Deer, listening for possible trouble up the hill, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

  •     Coming up for air.           (Another re-visited post from January, 2012) Bottle nose dolphin, Cape Charles, Virginia.  

  •   Squirrels appear to have magnets or Velcro on the bottoms of their feet.   They really do fly from tree to tree, defying gravity.   And they never ever give up.       (This post is from November 18th, 2011.)  

  •       Change is in the air…   A big storm – thunder and wind and rain – the air clears, the fires are out and the smoke disappears.   Everything changes.         (This post revisited from May 28th, 2012)    

  •     …go to the beach.        

  •   So, over the weekend I had a stomach bug and I think that it warped my sense of humor. The photo that was supposed to go with, Famous Last Words, was this one,     but when I saw the armadillo, I thought it was so cute that I ran with it.   Not…

  •     Messy days. Busy days.   Messy house.   (Messy palm.)           Palm tree, posterized etc. for fun!   Where are our poets? Time is running out. Poems for April, National Poetry Month. Send yours to: laine@lainesblog.com soon…

  •     The yellow flowers that grow on the vine that reaches for the heavens, are back and bigger than ever.   Each morning there is a bouquet of them on my deck. Gifts from the gods!          

  •     Is the world upside down?