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Category: Florida
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In marble halls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk in a fountain crystal clear a golden apple doth appear. There are no doors to this stronghold, yet thieves break in and steal the gold. What is it? (don't peek!) Thanks Billy, for sharing…
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The Azaleas are starting to bloom in St. Augustine. Robins are coming through too, you can hear them. Spring comes early in the south. This year, you might say that winter is late, or a no-show, except for those few days when it was below freezing. I'm not complaining. In fact if…
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Remember Phone booths? Remember when astronauts used to land in the ocean in capsules? We've come a long, long way- phone calls with video, space shuttles that land like jets, robots roaming on mars, telescopes exploring deep space. What does the future hold for us? Will we be able to bend time…
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It isn't really how BIG your friends are, it's how big they are in your heart. And they don't have to be going in the same direction as you either. And sometimes they have goofy smiles. Alligator and lizard pals shot at the Alligator Farm, in St. Augustine, Florida
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Wind. You can't see it or touch it, but you can't deny the fact of it either. What if we didn't have a word for wind, hadn't named it? How would we explain spanish moss dancing on the limbs of giant trees, or snow going sideways, or grains of sand just up and…
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What to do with the unlovable parts of ourselves? Try as we might, we can't run away or separate ourselves from our shadows. What happens if we sit and stay, like a good dog that wants to jumpandrunaround so badly, but we sit and we stay, and we don't look away? The…
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"Are they coming?" "Yes, I see them now." "You look good." "You're a sight for sore eyes too!" "It's funny, you and me. I never imagined that I'd fall in love with…well, you!" "Yeah, it is funny. You're not changing your mind are you?" "No, even if I could, I couldn't change my…
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Palm trees, so evocative of sunny days and warm nights, and easy times. Is life ever that simple? Some days – Yes!
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Drum roll please… Congratulations, Laine on your 100th post! (Thanks, Laine!) How about a nice pat on the back and a parade? Let's get out of here, before she starts singing… Meet me at the Trade Winds for a toast at 6:00 p.m. today!
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