Category: Florida

  •   A Haiku   He's two years old now and still falls asleep with me in the red hammock.       How many blessings in this photo?       Aden, red hammock, sunshine, deck, summertime…         Related articles Giving Thanks

  •     Thunder boomers every day. Sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the evening, sometimes at night.   Lots of rain, St. Augustine is very green, and the internet/cable providers are busy with blown out systems.   Beautiful at the beach after work and a swim in time to beat the rain!     Life…

  •     When the wind is blowing the sand like this, it can hurt! The little dog at the end of the beach didn't want to walk on the beach that day, and her human pal was kind and they soon left to find friendlier footing.   Some days are like that, you just can't…

  •     In the midst of nature's perfection, there's not much more to say- at least not today!   Hope today is sunny in all different kinds of ways!         Reprinted from LainesBlog, July, 2012

  •     "So many songs about rain, I don't know which one to sing first.   La la la la la…"        "Where'd everybody go?"         Lizard, about to sing in the rain, on the deck, St. Augustine, Florida.  

  •     Almost full already, when only yesterday you were a cheshire grin on the other side of the sky.   You are running away with the summer. Was it something that I said or did? I am sorry, whatever it was, I am so sorry. Please don't run anymore, I can't keep up.  …

  •         Almost lost my back scratcher the other day and was reminded of this post…     Recently a friend of mine was bemoaning the fact that there was no special someone in her life who could scratch her back right where she needed it scratched.   I understood the desire and…

  •     "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall."   Does anyone remember this song? I was the girlscout in the back of the bus on those long trips, who could sing it all the…

  •     The nice thing about living in a tourist town is that you get to pretend that you are on vacation from time to time.   A long walk on the beach (thank you knees!), dinner after, at your favorite taco shop, sitting at a colorful picnic table, under the palm trees… 2 fish…

  •     According to the great mythologist, Joseph Campbell,   "…we cancelled the Declaration of Independence," when we entered the First World War and re-joined the chaos of Europe.   He believed that it was a turning point in American politics that has led us away from idealism and onto the slippery slope of greed, "the principal…