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  • Burden of Joy

        Is this oak tree burdened by the spanish moss?   If you really pay attention to your life, then you recognize that your burdens are connected to your joys.   All you have to do is remember where the love is.   And that gets easier and easier, when you realize that your…

  • Vacating…

        Where's Laine?   I don't know.   Maybe she's hungry.   Did you say Hungary?   No, I said hungry.   Oh. Why?   I don't know!         Laine's Blog will be shaken and stirred for the next couple of weeks, with some help from guest blogger, Sue Harrison and…

  • How To Walk In The Mud

      There comes some mud in everyone's life that you have to go through, whether it's an awkward situation that you wish hadn't happened, or something that you must do, that you'd rather not.   It helps to take yourself lightly, not so seriously, get through it as gracefully as possible, dust yourself off, and…

  • After The Rain

        After a rainy, chilly Saturday, the sun is deciding whether or not to come out just before it sets.   It did, and the clouds moved on, and Sunday was a beautiful warm sunny day!       St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.      

  • Again!

      The first blossom on Easter morning…       Four days later – a full bouquet!       Once it gets started, it doesn't stop!        

  • The Same River

          There is a saying that you can't put your foot in the same river twice, because the river is constantly moving, constantly changing.   Our days are like that too, if we let them be.      Guana Tolomato State Park, St. Augustine, Florida. From the archives, January 2013.

  • Thanksgiving

                  This post is recycled from 2011, with a few changes, but all in all the gratitude is still the same! Happy Thanksgiving!      

  • Surf’s Up!

        Never too gnarly for these avian surfers, and always a joy to behold.           More wind in St. Augustine with the Brown Pelicans making the best of it.  

  • Hovering Clouds

        Hovering clouds, here one day and gone the next. Sunshine follows, almost  always.          

  • Just In Case…

        In case we need to be reminded that we live in a beautiful world, rainbows appear when we least expect them!         Looking over Moultrie Creek toward St. Augustine South from Vaill Point, the shard of a rainbow is reflected in the still water.