Category: Nature

  •       The sun was setting and shining shyly on the waves after hiding all day, and then this!               From my first August of doing the blog 2012, this magnificent rainbow, reprinted with permission!

  •     Not even a month ago, the crescent moon kept company with Venus and Jupiter for awhile. The two planets are now in our blind spot and the moon, well the moon has been all over the sky since then!   The movement of the stars and planets marks the march of time in…

  •     This morning person in training caught the sun rising.   Footprints sinking into oblivion. Leave nothing behind…         St. Augustine Beach, sunrise and sandpipers, August 6th, 2015.  

  •     St. Augustine's Lighthouse dwarfed by the rolling clouds of a summer's evening.             Not exactly a Haiku, but close! St. Augustine, Matanzas River and lighthouse.  

  •   Is that a little flying saucer that landed in the hollow of my tree?     Or a package for a spy?   Naaaa…     It's a mushroom, with a room of its own.     And a little friend and a few bugs…              

  •   Standing in line at the Winn Dixie one morning, someone said something that stayed with me… It went something like this in response to another person apologizing for taking so long…   If I was in a hurry, I would have gotten here earlier…   I liked that.   Once in awhile, we do…

  •   On summer's beach…         a nearly full and a blue moon rising just over there… Life is good!           St. Augustine Beach, Florida, last evening…

  •     Did you know that the brain of the octopus is unlike anything else on the planet?   Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviorally flexible of all invertebrates.    Well, in defense of humans,   we do sculpt things in the sand.   We might be smarter.   On the other hand……

  •   Gravity, according to Webster, is the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.       Tilting the camera, does not affect the effect of gravity, but it might make you dizzy!     (Hey, where'd the ball go?)          St. Augustine…

  •   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…