Category: Inspiration

  •   What do you do when your destination is just over there, but there is a downpour of rain so fierce that if you stepped out for a moment you would be drenched, and a river is forming between you and your destination, and your umbrella is safe and dry at home?     You…

  •     A lovely orange and a lovely blue here is Paradise.                 Bird of Paradise, up close in the front yard, St. Augustine, Florida.   (Look for Laine at the Historic Market this coming Sunday, July12th, in the morning.) Related articles Advertisement…

  •       Thanks to David Gardner, our resident morning person for sharing his sunrise photographs. This stunner is from yesterday, July 7th, 2015.   Wish I had been there!           St. Augustine Beach, ©David Gardner, 2015.      

  •   When I spotted this spider weaving her web, there were only two rows completed. By the time the camera came out, voila!         She would take one leg and latch onto the strand that was to receive the new link, and another leg would deliver that new link all the while…

  •   Laine (me, I) has begun to set up in the Historic Market in the Plaza de la Constitution in St. Augustine.   On Sale are photos of St. Augustine and from my travels near and far. This is a month to month commitment, so stay posted for next month's news. I'll be there Saturday…

  •     The Schooner. The setting sun. The incoming tide. A day ends. Night begins.           St. Augustine inlet, the Schooner Freedom sailing in.  

  •   Good Morning!!!     Surprise, Lily!                 Scrawney little pink tipped green stems open up to the world like this!  

  •     The sea oats are greening up again. There was a chorus of frogs in the marsh as I drove by, praising the rain. Summer's in full swing.             St. Augustine Beach.

  •       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.   All's well.               Reprinted from Laine'sBlog, June 2012.  

  •   Water, the most yielding and the strongest of nature's wonders, is a chameleon.     Reflecting the sky, it is all kinds of blue. (all the bumps in the shot are turtles!)     Looking down it takes on the color of the sand and leaves and turtles!            …