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  • Sea Oats in the Setting Sun

        The sea oats are beautiful again this year, thanks to the abundant rainfall. Are you getting the nourishment that you need to be beautiful? (cue violins and get ready for an info-mercial…just kidding!)   But if this were an advertisement, it would be for Happy Living.   A story…   There is a…

  • Lots of Saints

        Summertime in St. Augustine on St. George Street. There are a lot of saints in St. Augustine.   You get used to it!         Photograph with a painterly effect.

  • A Welcome Ordinariness

        Friends, paddling along together through life's currents. It's a calm evening and mild in between the storms and troubles. There's peace and quiet and a kind of welcome ordinariness, a rightness about things that begins to include the storms and troubles and the peace and quiet.   All's well.      

  • Cypress Trees and Their Knees

        What lurks in yonder wood? Alligators and snakes, frogs and bugs, and all kinds of creepy, crawly, things.   From a boat, however, it is rather picturesque. The cypress trees and their knees.        

  • High Maintenance?

        The Black-eyed-Susan vine is one of the most cheerful hanging plants around… until it droops. Then there is a desperate attempt to bring it back to life and its former glory.   It's reminiscent of some relationships. It looks so good in the plant store that it is irresistible – year after year!…

  • Rain

      A shower at the end of the day and I am still lovin' this rain! The trees are sighing and happy, just like me!        

  • The Bridge Tender

        If the obstacle in our path is a drawbridge, a radio transmission  is all that is needed to clear the way.   Other barriers demand more of us. Sometimes it is merely a sitting still long enough for a genuine faith in our own talents and goodness to arise.   Then doors open,…

  • Winning Streak

        Poker with the girls last night (not pictured here!), and you know you're in good company when you offer to lose just to balance things out and the dealer says, "Oh, no, we'll pick your pockets clean next time, don't worry!"   The yin and yang of life. Sometimes you win and it…

  • Morning Glory

        Good morning, Glory!         Wild Morning Glory climbing on my deck!

  • Not Yesterday’s Moon

      A fullish moon through the trees.   Yesterday, the new moon eclipsed the sun, late in the day. It happens. Rarely! In all of the sky, our little satellite comes clean across our star. The three of us, the earth, moon and sun are perfectly aligned.   Pretty cool!          …