Category: Nature

  •     What to do with the unlovable parts of ourselves? Try as we might, we can't run away or separate ourselves from our shadows.   What happens if we sit and stay, like a good dog that wants to jumpandrunaround so badly, but we sit and we stay, and we don't look away?  …

  •     A fog rolls in, escorting the cooler air along the beach – some colder days ahead, and then back into the 60's or 70's.   Up North, you kind of have to settle into winter, honker down, but here, in Northeast Florida, you can rest easy knowing that the cold days will come, but…

  •     Ever grateful, to be living this close to salt water, and sky, and air.   Happy Thanksgiving!         St. Augustine Inlet, Vilano Beach.  

  •       Angel's Trumpets, that's what these magnificent flowers are called.   This is the week that our attention goes to giving thanks and we turn our thoughts to sharing – our love, friendship, time, food and drink.   It's a time to be gentle with each other, to recognize our fellow travelers on…

  •     A piece of grass, indented into the sand, did the tide move it over just so, or was it the wind, or did it jump out of its indentiture to make heart art?     A lovely find, no matter how it came to be!                …

  •                                                                                                         © 2014 David Gardener…

  •     The conga line, so fun to watch, as the pelicans surf through wave after wave after wave, on their way to where?   The next wave, the next fish, a good night's sleep? Who really knows?   But these playful birds are definitely onto something!         St. Augustine Beach.  

  •     Sand and salty wind, and the sideways glance of the lowering sun, illuminating the sea foam – it's all the soul needs.         Vilano Beach, St. Augustine, Florida.

  •                                                                             ©2014 Michelle Moore   If you miss a double rainbow, but a really good friend sends you her wonderful photo of it,…

  •       An early morning thunderstorm left these beautiful clouds for the rising sun to shine upon.   May all the storms in our lives be blessings in disguise.           From the archives, November 2011. Used with permission of LainesBlog, Thinking Out Loud.