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Hibiscus and Morning Glory on a morning bike ride through the neighborhood. So many beautiful flowers blooming these days and wonderful scents… Ginger, Magnolia, Jasmine… Hmmmmmmmm…
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One beautiful day after another… people go to the beach, the waves roll in and out again, pelicans fly in their lines. Just another day in Paradise! St. Augustine Beach, May, 2017.
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Spiders and webs, what a brilliant idea! How did Mother Nature come up with these things? This spider is so curious that it is difficult to discern its head from its toe. There are so many secrets in life to unravel, it's astonishing. Reprinted from Laine's Blog,…
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A Favorite Poem For the Anniversary of My Death By W. S. Merwin Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I…
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Good Morning! Actually, this was a good night! Sunset at The St. Augustine inlet.
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You learn something everyday, even at my advanced age! lichen (li ken), n. an organism composed of a fungus in union with an alga, commonly forming patches on rocks and trees. What I didn't know was that "alga" is the singular of algae! algae (al je), n.pl., sing. -ga (ge),…
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Nestlings are so very vulnerable. This little one endured severe thunderstorms, only to be stalked by a crowd of noisy crows and survived that too. Nature provides lots of drama for her creatures. Perhaps we all have a nestling within us…our inner hatchling. It's the part of us that has come through…
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There are some who say that we are safer now than at any other time in Human History. And there are some who say that we are never ever safe. There are some who work tirelessly for peace. And there are some who work tirelessly for war. There are those who worship…
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Be kind To your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody's Mother. Be kind to your friends in the swamp, where the weather is very very damp…. The End! Muscovy Ducks at Treaty Park being very friendly.
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Beauty in the world is experienced by the individual as feeling. If we look more closely at beauty and try to describe more carefully the beauty of the world, we do not arrive at aesthetics, but rather love. Is not beauty the particular way in which the world expresses itself as…
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