Category: Nature

  •   An affair of the heart and soul…     Where waves crash hearts are mended.               St. Augustine Beach, June 2018. © Laine Quinn 2018

  •   Frog eggs! Day 2, the little dots will soon be tiny tadpoles!       How life begins, began, begun! © Laine Quinn 2018

  •     The sun is shining in a break in this long hollow log, giving life to any number of creatures and green living things.               Fallen Oak, Wolfe Laurel, North Carolina. © Laine Quinn 2018  

  •     This little seedling rooted itself in the crack of my deck table. That's how all of the forests began… one seedling at a time.         "Life's longing for itself." © Laine Quinn, 2018            

  •     On top of the mountain the frozen fog persists!         Bald Mountain, at the Appalachian Trail, with a view of 5 different ranges and frozen fog clinging to the branches. © Laine Quinn 2018.

  •     I'd almost forgotten that daffodils were my Mom's favorite flower. She'd be 100 this year, if she had survived her difficult challenges – impending divorce, depression, alcoholism. Back in the 70's it was all behind closed doors.   I'll never know her as a wise old woman, but as a woman, who loved…

  •     Breathe Walk Smile                                                            Thich Nhat Hanh   Back to basics, one of my first teachers' best advice.         Sunset, Moultrie Creek, from Vaill Point.  

  •   Happy New Year, and Welcome 2018!     (And so long 2017, and Good Bye!) (Good Riddance!)   Leaving a difficult year and venturing into the unknown new one. Learning to balance the bad news and sorrows  with the joy and love that is all around.   Thanks to all for the Joy and…

  •   Let the beauty that you love be what you do.                                                 Rumi      

  •   This was spotted on my way home from the beach yesterday evening…   My life is better than your vacation.   So, assuming a lot, like if any of that is true, would you be the "My" in that sentence, or the "Your"? Maybe a little bit of both, I hope!      …