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  • What’s Your Story?

        Everyone has a story.   This guy was picking up dead fish just outside the perimeter set by the beach re-nourishment team, back in September. Someone asked him if the fish had died because of the pumping of the sand onto the beach, and he said, no, that he didn't know what had…

  • Focused

        Will it be easier to stay focused in 2013? It kind of feels like it will be!   Probably too early to tell!       Spanish moss hanging on a Live Oak tree at Washington Oaks State Park, Florida.

  • The Mirror

        "…if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you."     Excerpt from the poem, Where Do The Eyes of Women Fall?, by Kabir, a 15th century Indian poet/songwriter, lovingly translated by Daniel Ladinsky in the Penguin Publication, Love Poems From God, Twelve Sacred Voices from the East…

  • First Day of the Year

        A beautiful day to start the year. Lucky me, I got to spend most of it walking barefoot on this beach, and resting my perfectly weathered head on a perfectly placed log.   How was your first day, of this odd year?       St. Augustine Beach, Anastasia Island State Park.

  • Three Angels

        Three Angels going wild in front of a "green screen", at the Delaware Children's Museum, last June.     Do something wild and crazy in this New Year!   Happy Happy, New Year, Everyone!   And thanks for a great year!         My three favorite young nieces, at the Children's…

  • A Dog Like That

        If you had a watchdog like that you would sleep like a baby too!   Me, I had to give up coffee for a couple of days and hire a cat!   Happy New Year's Eve, Everyone! Keep safe.   Adios 2012! It has been a very interesting year, indeed!   On with…

  • Petal By Petal

      Petal by petal, this rose is put together, blooming at the end of a sturdy stem, just like us!       In the rose garden at Washington Oaks State Park, Florida, December 2012.

  • That Takes Some Living…

        Cloudy in the morning with a downpour that seemed like it might never end. Sunny in the afternoon with wind gusts that could knock your socks off.     Isn't it nice getting older and understanding the vagaries of fickle weather, and fickle feelings too? Able to trust and to know that the…

  • Can You Feel It?

        Can you feel it? The love?   It's here! ;>)     Wreath detail, with pecans.

  • Christmas Day

        May the very best that the season promises be yours.   Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again!