Category: Inspiration

  •     Out of one storm and into another. Laine is blowing out of town for a week or so.   Please forgive the interruption to the daily dose of Laine's Blog.   If you have the time, enjoy a perusal through the archives. You might be surprised at what you find there. Or not!…

  •     Is that crab smiling?   (GO RAVENS!)     Crab and shack in the Florida Keys.  

  •   "Mom, that is so cool! How do you do that?"       Free range chicks in Key West.

  •   Back to basics. A walk on the beach with my favorite 8 month old friend, who now looks when I point to the pelicans flying so close by above the waves.     St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park, Florida

  •     It still snows up north, even though it is 75 degrees here in St. Augustine. It's less real than a dream, and impossible to conjure up the actuality of snow!   In this photo it's snowing one of those magical snowfalls, where the flakes quietly stick to the branches, transforming the forest.  …

  •     Stuck inside all day, I had to come home to this, sailor's delight!       Off the deck again, a perfect day turns to perfect night in St. Augustine, Florida.

  •     Quiet today. A little bit of a sore throat.   I hope that Egrets don't ever get sore throats.       Egret shot at Blue Springs State Park, Florida.

  •     There is a saying that you can't put your foot in the same river twice, because the river is constantly moving, constantly changing.   Our days are like that too, if we let them be.        

  •   Do you ever wish that a movie or book would go on for just a little longer, so that you could see how things worked out later, after the happy or tragic ending?   For some reason a very old joke came to mind and I imagined it as a story that might have…

  •     When we realize that we are the ones writing our own stories, it comes with a certain acceptance that some of the "well intentioned" institutions of our childhoods (church, school, family) might have led us astray – for a decade or two or three, like this runaway buoy that, were it still functioning…