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What are you baking for the Holidays? At the pool in Cocoa Beach, after a week of rain in St. Augustine! (Summer,2008) Reprinted with permission from LainesBlog, 12.16.11! ;>)
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Although the Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year, it is a celebration of light. It's the birthday of the sun. Our red star turns his warm face back to earth once again and like the ancients, we are assured that there will be another spring and another harvest and…
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Where we put our attention, our energy, our focus, there is where we live. Our life is there. It might be little things that hijack our thoughts, or huge things, but these big and small things are the ones that will grow and thrive. Strands of Spanish Moss capturing…
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Lots of vultures in the neighborhood. Owls at night, vultures by day. Scavengers and hunters and humans? Thrifty scavengers and smart shoppers! Related articles In Praise of Vultures
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Where waves break, souls are mended. Found this quote without an author at the shop where I work, Expressions in St. Augustine and it was true on the Cape and equally true here in my adopted Florida home.
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Who doesn't like staring into a warm fire on a cold night? Drawn into the magic of dancing light and heat and the crackling sounds, it is difficult to concentrate on the conversations around you, and the one in your head is more like a dream. A dream that humans have…
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At the end of a beautiful day, the sun sets early, and the town illuminates the night with millions of white lights! Thanksgiving was late and Christmas will be early, and before you know it, the new year is upon us. The seasons come and go, and we're still here, older…
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Once again, it is that time of year when people are driving really really badly. So, go slow, pay attention and watch out for the other guy. For whatever reason, she/he is having a really bad day. Let the fun begin!
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This post is recycled from 2011, with a few changes, but all in all the gratitude is still the same! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Easy on the eyes and pleasing to one's sense of symmetry and grace and order – the vanishing point turns a corner never to be seen or heard from again!