Category: Environmental

  •     On top of the mountain the frozen fog persists!         Bald Mountain, at the Appalachian Trail, with a view of 5 different ranges and frozen fog clinging to the branches. © Laine Quinn 2018.

  •     March winds, and look at the trees. What are they whispering to each other and now they are laughing!   How many years have they stood side by side chattering in the wind and silent in the calm air?   How many years? How many stories in all that time?   Old souls,…

  •   Stop worrying, be here now, or the days will slip away in the river of time, and THIS is all we have, This NOW.         Just trying to take my own advice as I ponder the reflections at Moultrie Creek, 2.02.2018.

  •     Breathe Walk Smile                                                            Thich Nhat Hanh   Back to basics, one of my first teachers' best advice.         Sunset, Moultrie Creek, from Vaill Point.  

  •   Let the beauty that you love be what you do.                                                 Rumi      

  •   The thing about evacuating ahead of a powerful, deadly storm, that may or may not be a direct hit on your world, is that you say "goodbye" to your life, your things and your home, not knowing what you will find when you return.   Here in St. Augustine, most of us have been…

  •     A Beautiful sunny holiday. Lots of families out to enjoy the beach, playing, fishing, reading in the sun.   An overheard conversation about Hurricane Harvey – on people's minds – and another Hurricane barrelling toward the islands.   But life must go on, if we are to make sense of any of it.…

  •     Rain to the left of me, Rain to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with a view!         More from the Crescent Beach storm, 7.10.2017. That's the shrimp boat on the horizon!

  •     In between the sky and the sea. Rain clouds closing in from the south and the north. Whenever a boat takes to the water, there is a story to tell.   Storms, sea creatures, and the one that got away. There is always a story!       Crescent Beach, storms brushing by…

  •     Last call, last chanceLast song, last danceSometimes you just don't know when that's gonna beHold me baby, give me a kissLike tonight is all there isCause there's a last time for everything   It's a Brad Paisley  song that someone mentioned in a piece I found somewhere, and it stuck with me. Can…