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Sometimes numbers are difficult to wrap your mind around. The banana spider, or golden orb spider, or writer spider, is the oldest surviving spider on earth. To the tune of 165 million years! That's a really really long time. Compare that to humans and our nearest ancestors, the chimpanzee, and we clock…
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Pelicans not only pose wonderfully for photo ops, they groom themselves with those ten foot beaks, and even though you can observe this with your very own eyes, it is still a mystery how they manage to do it!
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I walk the line… Sandpipers, St Augustine Beach.
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What does it take to open a gate? The right key, or a secret code, or maybe a special knock? How about a heart? How to open a heart? What's the special knock? The secret code? And once it's opened, how to keep it that way? And what does it…
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After a long day, a soft reflection. Too tired to make any sense of it!
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Every afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, it rains. Like a tropical paradise, it lasts 40 minutes or an hour and it's over. Everything is so green and happy, especially the mosquitos! @#%$&^* Even so, it is beautiful and so lovely to have the rain. St. Augustine Beach, between…
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So alert and ready for life, hanging around marinas and boats. Were we ever birds or dolphins or whales? It seems like it would be so much fun.
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In Florida, it's easy being green!
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Another full moon come and gone. Slipping to half, quarter, a sliver and gone. Juliet tells Romeo, "Swear not by the inconstant moon." But the lunar phases have a predictable inconstancy. If you had phases like the moon, what would be your full moon phase? Half moon? New…
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Is the oak tree burdened by the spanish moss that adorns it? My dad used to say to us, "You are the joy of my declining years." (He was in his 40's when he said this!) Twenty odd years earlier, he was a young father of 4 children under 4 years…
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