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Wonderful wind at the beach this evening. Kite surfers in their element. Photographer coated in sand by the time she got home! St. Augustine Beach, Florida.
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Is the spider who spun this web waiting in ambush in the vortex at the center, or is she so confident that dinner will come sooner or later that she is napping there? This web is very close to the ground. The filaments are probably very sticky. If you were a little thing…
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You can find stones or shells on the beach in the shape of hearts. Sometimes the leaves against the sky will connect in such a way to form a glittering heart. Here is a heart door in a hollow tree. I wonder, is anyone home? (Who invented rectangles…
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Shadow and light and light and shadows, and all the colors in between. What would we do without our sun to paint the world for us? Not much, I suppose. Without the sun… let's not go there! Let's just enjoy the show!!
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Life can sneak up on you and shake you up with a sudden tragedy. (impossible to see it coming) Even though the tragedy isn't mine, it's touched me, made me pause, and shake. (Does anyone read poetry anymore?) A line from a much loved poem by Howard Moss, …the seed…
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You might think that having dinner under a canopy of Jasmine, might be a bit heady. But it didn't bother these diners, or the birthday party upstairs. The combination of good company, Jasmine and wine, make for a sweet, heady evening! Jasmine at O. C. Whites, in…
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If you were a Banyan tree and could send roots to the earth from your "branches" that could shore you up for your journey, how strong you would be. Confident and grounded! Beautiful too! Reprinted from LainesBlog, May 4th, 2012, with permission!
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After a rainy, chilly Saturday, the sun is deciding whether or not to come out just before it sets. It did, and the clouds moved on, and Sunday was a beautiful warm sunny day! St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.
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Although the expected order of things is that the adults in the world guide and teach the children how to become happy and healthy adults, there is a school of thought that claims that the children are here to teach us how to be happy and healthy adults. Looking at this another…
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How much can we trust each other? You and me, and the stranger who made these wonderful lattés? More than we give ourselves credit for, I think. How many bridges do you go over without worrying whether or not they will support you and your car? How many roads travelled, with…