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Category: Environmental

  • Pink Grasses

        Late blooming grasses – patient, resilient, beautiful.    

  • In The Middle of a Storm

      When you are right in the middle of a storm, it's all there is – wind, rain, noise, thunder, lightening. You feel as scattered as the sand that relentlessly blows away and away.   From the air it looks quite different. Blue sky above, sun shining and billowy clouds below. If you are in…

  • You’re Doing Great

        From a moving car, these neat rows of plants offer the eye a hypnotic symmetry. It's comforting, like the rocking of a train as it moves along the tracks into the future. Is it the marking of the motion that is soothing, forward motion, like a dance, or a Bach Concerto?   The…

  • Good Morning

        Good Morning!   or Good Morning, is that coffee you have there?   or   Good morni…no, don't put the umbrella back now, no, I'm in here…gotta go!        

  • The Moon and Venus

        The moon gets so close to the sun that once a month she disappears for a few days. There is always a big smile when she returns – a cheshire smile. I wonder what they are up to? By the time that our lovely satellite gets to Venus, she's still smiling! It must…

  • Giving Thanks

       

  • Blessings in Disguise

      An early morning thunderstorm left these beautiful clouds for the rising sun to shine upon.   May all the storms in our lives be blessings in disguise.    

  • Pelican – Simply Living

        According to some observers the pelican will actually enter the water upside down in order to catch the fish.   Imagine a pelican in the grocery store asking the pelican behind the counter, "Is that fish wild or farm raised?" The pelican behind the counter stands on his head and says, "They came…

  • The Angels Can’t Say No

        Angel's Trumpets, that's what these magnificent flowers are called. They are blooming all over St. Augustine now. Maybe we can invite the angels to come and play for us on these delicate instruments, and be blessed with their songs. We are in need of angels here and everywhere.   This is the week…

  • More Determination

      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.